"Increasingly prices are set by sellers to raise their prices without a loss of sales sufficient to wipe out the gain."

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"Increasingly prices are set by sellers to raise their prices without a loss of sales sufficient to wipe out the gain."

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"Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another."

Milton Friedman, American Economist

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"We pay some price when necessary to bring down inflation but that price is temporary and is not large relative to the permanent gain from reduced inflation."

Martin Feldstein, American Economist

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"Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest."

Epicurus, Greek Philosopher

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"But in practice, if often comes down to not suffering a loss as big as the huge gain you made a while ago."

Merton Miller, American Economist

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"He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense."

Titus Maccius Plautus, Roman Poet

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"By his own efforts man could never gain the true and desired riches."

Joseph Rutherford, American Clergyman

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"By use you possess gain; by disuse you decline and lose."

Edwin Louis Cole, American Author

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"A mutual arrangement, I repeat, is the only satisfactory medium whereby the present system can be carried on with any degree of satisfaction, and in such an arrangement the employers have more to gain than the workers."

James Larkin, Irish Activist

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"One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness."

Josh Billings, American Comedian

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"It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons."

Tom Clancy, American Novelist

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"There is no reason inherent in the real resources available to us why we cannot move rapidly within the next two or three years to a state of genuine full employment."

Reason

"If unemployment could be brought down to say 2 percent at the cost of an assured steady rate of inflation of 10 percent per year, or even 20 percent, this would be a good bargain."

Economy

"There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government."

Government

"Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare."

Evil

"Firms would be given initial entitlements to gross markup on the basis of past performance. These entitlements would be transferable and a market in them would be developed."

Performance

"Nearly all educational expenditure should be considered a capital outlay, whether it provides a future return in the form of enhanced taxable income or in terms of an enhanced quality of life."

Life

"The supply-side effect of a restrictive monetary policy is likely to be perverse, in that high interest rates enter into costs and thus exert inflationary pressure."

Policy

"This paper was one of my digressions into abstract economics."

Economy

"Practically, the desirable situation ought to be one in which any reasonably responsible person willing to accept available employment can find a job paying a living wage within 48 hours."

Job

"The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression."

Politics