top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Less emphasis on inventories, I think, may tend to dampen business cycles, because business cycles are typically in the grasp of inventory cycles and heavy industry cycles."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Business quotes
"Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent."
"Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him."
"A business is an army; you are the general, and your subordinates are your troops. Victory is achieving your goals. Great victory is surpassing your goals."
"We prefer to be around others who bring out the best in us and make us feel good, don't we? Customers want to do business with people who make them feel valued, appreciated, and happy."
"Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives."
"All business opportunities stem from someone else's inability to resolve a simple and inevitable problem."
Explore more quotes by Paul A. Volcker
"Well, by the standards of a lot of countries, by Latin American standards, it wasn't so bad."
"What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life."
"Double-digit inflation is a terrible thing - and it got up to 14 or 15 percent on a monthly basis for a while, shortly after I became chairman of the Fed."
"When people begin anticipating inflation, it doesn't do you any good anymore, because any benefit of inflation comes from the fact that you do better than you thought you were going to do."
"By the time I became chairman and there was more of a feeling of urgency, there was a willingness to accept more forceful measures to try to deal with the inflation."
"I am suspicious of the idea of a new paradigm, to use that word, an entirely new structure of the economy."
"You could not buy a house in those days without just assuming that the house was not only a place to live, but it was a good investment, because it was going to keep up with inflation or get ahead of inflation, and it was just - that was America."
"It was the biggest inflation and the most sustained inflation that the United States had ever had."
"The speed of communication, the speed of information transfer, the cheapness of communication, the ease of moving things around the world are a difference in kind as well as degree."
"Less emphasis on inventories, I think, may tend to dampen business cycles, because business cycles are typically in the grasp of inventory cycles and heavy industry cycles."
bottom of page