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• A store's best advertisement is the service its goods render, for upon such service rest the future, the good-will, of an organization.

  James Cash Penney

  Organization, Economy, Stores

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• I know I'm not some matinee idol, but I think we're sold this bill of goods by the media, which says that only the most beautiful and dashing people can become movie stars. So when someone like me sneaks in, they have to redo the calculations.

  John C. Reilly

  Beautiful, Stars, Thinking

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• Globalization and free trade do spur economic growth, and they lead to lower prices on many goods.

  Robert Reich

  Philosophy, Political, Growth

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• Local economies are suffering as people spend more on fuel and less on consumer goods and travel.

  Dan Lipinski

  Travel, People, Suffering

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• Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Funny, Money, Humor

  "Gideon Planish". Book by Sinclair Lewis, 1943.

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• The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods.

  Paul Dirac

  People, Suffering, Wish

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• A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.

  Norman Cousins

  Fashion, Thinking, Dwelling

  Norman Cousins (1974). “The celebration of life: a dialogue on immortality and infinity”, Harper San Francisco

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• Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you.

  Red Cloud

  Years, World, Fifty

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• Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

  Albert Camus

  Taxation, Citizens, Indirect

  "Caligula", act 1, sc. 8, Pléiade, 1962.

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• He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.

  John Bunyan

  Poverty, Wealth, Poor

  John Bunyan (1787). “The pilgrim's progress, from this world to that which is to come: delivered under the similitude of a dream: In three parts. Wherein are set forth the manner of his setting out; ... together with his happy arrival at the celestial city”, p.182

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• By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.

  James Buchan

  Survivor, Pouring, Sometimes

  "War Games: The Story of Aid and War in Modern Times by Linda Polman". www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2010.

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• The E.U. imports more agricultural goods from developing countries around the world than does the U.S., Canada and Japan, combined.

  John Bruton

  Country, Japan, Agriculture

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• When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Soldier, Liberty, Borders

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• I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods, most of which people don't need. I'm anti-consumerism; I own four pairs of black Levis and that's it.

  Paul Auster

  Believe, Ideas, People

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• Outsourcing and globalization of manufacturing allows companies to reduce costs, benefits consumers with lower cost goods and services, causes economic expansion that reduces unemployment, and increases productivity and job creation.

  Larry Elder

  Jobs, Unemployment, Cost

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• If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.

  William Feather

  Work, Land, People

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• And just remember, every dollar we spend on outsourcing is spent on U.S. goods or invested back in the U.S. market. That's accounting.

  Arthur Laffer

  Dollars, Remember, Outsourcing

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• The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Beautiful, War, Intelligent

  John Maynard Keynes (1982). “Activities 1931-1939: world crises and policies in Britain and America”

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• A gold standard doesn't imply stability in the prices of the goods and services that people buy every day, it implies a stability in the price of gold itself.

  Ben Bernanke

  People, Gold, Standards

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• This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

  David Hume

  Possession, Insatiable, Universal

  David Hume, Geoffrey Sayre-McCord “Moral Philosophy”, Hackett Publishing

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• In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.

  Garrett Hardin

  Mean, Environmental, World

  Garrett James Hardin (1995). “The Immigration Dilemma: Avoiding the Tragedy of the Commons”, F A I R-Federation for American Immigration Reform

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• Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Yield, Giving, Accepting

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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• The American consumer is also the American worker, and if we don't do something to protect our manufacturing base here at home, it is going to be hard to buy any retail goods.

  Lindsey Graham

  Home, Retail, Reconstruction

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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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• Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Friendship, Philosophical

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.603, Simon and Schuster

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