Goods And Services Quotes

• Lawsuit abuse is a major contributor to the increased costs of healthcare, goods and services to consumers.

  Charles W. Pickering

  Feet, Abuse, Cost

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• We are entering a new phase in human history - one in which fewer and fewer workers will be needed to produce the goods and services for the global population.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Population, Entering, Phases

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• Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.

  Henry Ford

  Money, Covering, Manipulation

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• Today, people are having to spend so much of their money, to acquire a house and to get an education that they don't have enough to spend on goods and services, except by running into yet more debt on their credit cards and other borrowings.

  Michael Hudson

  Running, People, House

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I'd like to provide information, inspiration, and access to whatever goods and services are needed to make it super easy for everyone to change their lifestyle to a sustainable one.

  Daryl Hannah

  Inspiration, Information, Easy

  "Hollywood star takes eco-activism to Web". Interview with Vanessa McGrady, www.nbcnews.com. Jun 1, 2006.

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• People do not buy goods and services. They buy relations, stories and magic.

  Seth

  People, Magic, Marketing

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• We remain the most prosperous, powerful nation on Earth. Our workers are no less productive than when this crisis began. Our minds are no less inventive, our goods and services no less needed than they were last week or last month or last year

  Barack Obama

  Money, Powerful, Years

  First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

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• For example, the supporters of tariffs treat it as self-evident that the creation of jobs is a desirable end, in and of itself, regardless of what the persons employed do. That is clearly wrong. If all we want are jobs, we can create any number--for example, have people dig holes and then fill them up again, or perform other useless tasks. Work is sometimes its own reward. Mostly, however, it is the price we pay to get the things we want. Our real objective is not just jobs but productive jobs--jobs that will mean more goods and services to consume.

  Milton Friedman

  Jobs, Real, Mean

  Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman (1990). “Free to Choose: A Personal Statement”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The fundamental fact in the lives of the poor in most parts of America is that the wages of common labor are far below the benefits of AFDC, Medicaid, food stamps, public housing, public defenders, leisure time and all the other goods and services of the welfare state.

  George Gilder

  America, Benefits, Leisure

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• Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc'-ra-cy): A system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.

  Morgan Philpot

  Government, Numbers, Wealth

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• I have done business in China for 25 years, so I know that in order to get China to cooperate with us, we must first actually retaliate against their cyber-attacks so they know we're serious. We have to push back on their desire to control the trade route through the South China Sea through which flows $5 trillion worth of goods and services every year.

  Carly Fiorina

  Cyber Attacks, Order, Years

  "5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant". www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• One of the dirty little secrets of the stock market rally is that the rising corporate profits that powered it are largely phantom profits. They are artifacts of currency devaluation, not an increase in efficiency or production of goods and services.

  Charles Hugh Smith

  Dirty, Secret, Rising

  "Phantom Profits Will Vanish As The Dollar Strengthens" by Charles Hugh Smith, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2012.

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• It [the free market] is an organizational way of doing things, featuring openness, which enables millions of people to cooperate and compete without demanding a preliminary clearance of pedigree, nationality, color, race, religion, or wealth. It demands only that each person abide by voluntary principles, that is, by fair play. The free market means willing exchange; it is impersonal justice in the economic sphere and excludes coercion, plunder, theft, protectionism, and other anti-free market ways by which goods and services change hands.

  Leonard Read

  Mean, Play, Race

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• We are so accustomed to the miracle of private enterprise that we habitually take it for granted. But how does private industry solve the incredibly complex problem of turning out tens of thousands of different goods and services in the proportions in which they are wanted by the public? ... It solves these problems through the institutions of private property, competition, the free market, and the existence of money - through the interrelations of supply and demand, costs and prices, profits and losses.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Loss, Miracle, Competition

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• To best serve the public happiness, government shouldn't do things it cannot do well - anymore than Wal-Mart should provide goods and services that people don't like.

  Joel Miller

  Government, People, Should

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• Wal-Mart has become the whipping boy for political demagogues, unions and anti-traders. I suggest that they have the wrong target.... Wal-Mart exists and prospers because tens of millions of Americans find Wal-Mart to be a suitable source of goods and services..... unions and anti-traders should direct their outrage and condemnation at the tens of millions of Americans who shop at Wal-Mart and keep it in business.

  Walter E. Williams

  Boys, Political, Target

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• Throughout history governments have been chronically short of revenue. The reason should be clear: unlike you and me, governments do not produce useful goods and services that they can sell on the market; governments, rather than producing and selling services, live parasitically off the market and off society.

  Murray Rothbard

  Government, Like You, Reason

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• Economic progress and justice do not consist in superbly equalized destitution, but in the constant creation of more and more goods and services, of more and more wealth and income to be shared.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Justice, Progress, Income

  Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.95, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The essence and the glory of the free market is that individual firms and businesses, competing on the market, provide an ever-changing orchestration of efficient and progressive goods and services: continually improving products and markets, advancing technology, cutting costs, and meeting changing consumer demands as swiftly and as efficiently as possible.

  Murray Rothbard

  Cutting, Technology, Essence

  Murray Newton Rothbard (1978). “For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto”, p.242, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Business exists to supply goods and services to customers and economic surplus to society, rather than to supply jobs to workers and managers or even dividends to shareholders.

  Peter Drucker

  Jobs, Economic, Workers

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.40, Routledge

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• It will be good for us in the long run, and I mean there are six and a half billion people in this world. And it's great for 300 million to keep enjoying more and more property, but I think it's terrific if the remainder do. And I think if they can learn something from us in terms of our system, and I think they have, they are learning more about how to unleash the potential of their citizenry to turn out more goods and services that their citizens want or that we want, I think that's terrific.

  Howard Warren Buffett

  Running, Mean, Thinking

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• Somebody's buying these treasury bills at 1/20th of one percent. I mean we consuming about $2 billion a day of goods and services beyond what we're producing.As long as we consume more than we produce, and we trade away little pieces of the country daily, they're going to own something. Now, they can't run from American assets. I mean every day the rest of the world is going to have about two billion more of American assets than we have, as long as they sell us these goods.

  Howard Warren Buffett

  Running, Country, Mean

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• Somebody's buying these treasury bills at 1/20th of one percent. I mean we consuming about $2 billion a day of goods and services beyond what we're producing.And it reflects American's consumption ideas rather than its savings ideas.

  Howard Warren Buffett

  Mean, Ideas, Buying

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• A healthier, less impoverished planet is good for all of us. From an economic standpoint, it allows people to contribute more to the marketplace and lead productive lives. U.S. foreign assistance opens new markets to U.S. goods and services and creates new trading partners and allies.

  Mike Huckabee

  Productive Life, People, Allies

  "Why foreign aid still makes sense" by Mike Huckabee and Blanche Lincoln, www.politico.com. October 22, 2012.

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• We have learned to turn out lots of goods and services, but we haven't learned as well how to have everybody share in the bounty. The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind.

  Warren Buffett

  Share, Figures, Obligation

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