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Economy Quotes
"In this context, the current recovery in the Japanese economy is taking place in tandem with the growing interdependence with the rest of the world, particularly with the other East Asian economies."
132
"Inflation is taxation without legislation."
119
"If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won."
115
"What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome."
90
"2005 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve."
87
"A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one."
83
"So now we are pushing economic reform, bank reform and enterprise reform. So we can finish that reform this year, in September or October. Then our economy may be much more, you know, normalized."
77
"As the U.S. businesses search for new areas of economic growth, markets for their goods, a pool of skilled resources, and global locations to produce and manufacture, India could be their ideal partner. India's strong economy, and growth rate of 7.6% per annum, is creating new opportunities for our mutual prosperity."
69
"We have in the last two years, we have passed 350 legislation in the parliament, most of which deal with democratization, human rights, and of course, economy."
68
"A healthy environment is essential to a livable Oregon and a strong economy."
59
"But I also think that it does create a lot of revenue, but to me it's a temporary revenue stream because it's an industry that, if suddenly gambling started in Massachusetts, then a lot of our patrons who would gamble in New Hampshire if we had it, would disappear."
57
"Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation."
57
"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest."
49
"If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen."
48
"Foreign trade clearly holds down the cost of products we buy."
48
"During the gold rush its a good time to be in the pick and shovel business."
47
"This continuing spike in gas prices is bad for consumers, bad for our economy, and bad for all other businesses. It is hurting us and costing us jobs."
44
"Every economy is uncertain. Referring to this or any economy as "uncertain" is an unnecessary and pessimistic redundancy."
44
"Privatization of the state-owned economy is not yet on the agenda. We cannot do it immediately; my colleagues would not agree to it. But we must put all forms of ownership on an equal footing immediately and let different types of ownership compete with the state firms."
43
"She planted that terror of debt so deeply in her children that even now, in a changed economic pattern where indebtedness is a part of living, I become restless when a bill is two days overdue. Olive never accepted the time-payment plan when it became popular. A thing bought on time was a thing you did not own and for which you were in debt. She saved for things she wanted, and this meant that the neighbours had new gadgets as much as two years before we did."
42
"A laborer no longer makes whole articles. He receives raw materials, puts his touch on them, and passes them to another worker in the series. When the articles are quite finished they are carried out of sight by currents of commercial exchange. These currents are untraceable."
40
"Real economic stimulus comes from real investment."
39
"In today's competitive economy, to stand still is to die."
39
"Having seen a non-market economy, I suddenly understood much better what I liked about a market economy."
39
"Instead of saying that globalization is a fact, that it's inevitable, we've also got to demonstrate that while the growing interdependence of the world economy is indeed a fact, it's not uncontrollable."
38
"When certain branches of the economy become obsolete, as in the case of the steel industry, not only do jobs disappear, which is obviously a terrible social hardship, but certain cultures also disappear."
38
"Foreign trade clearly has been a reason why inflation has been low."
38
"But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed."
38
"We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need to know."
37
"Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor."
37
"We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up."
37
"I believe in some type of free market system. I just don't think you'll find an example of one completely free from government intervention."
37
"Over 30 years ago, Airbus was founded by a European consortium of French, German, and later Spanish and British companies to compete in the large commercial aircraft industry with U.S. companies."
37
"Well, our economy is very strong and growing. We have created 5.4 million new jobs in the last 3 years. Our unemployment rate is better than the average unemployment rate of the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s."
36
"This paper was one of my digressions into abstract economics."
36
"This nation's 23 million small businesses need a budget that reflects their value to the economy."
36
"Anyone who's tried to pay a heating bill, fill a prescription, or simply buy groceries knows all too well that the current minimum wage does not cut the mustard."
36
"One of the very nice things about investing in the stock market is that you learn about all different aspects of the economy. It's your window into a very large world."
36
"I think there's a lot of merit in an international economy and global markets, but they're not sufficient because markets don't look after social needs."
36
"Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy."
36
"I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed. The economy is moving. Every seaman knows the command at such a moment: 'steady as she goes'."
35
"The exchangeable value of all commodities, rises as the difficulties of their production increase."
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