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Economics Quotes
BusinessEconomicsFinanceInvestmentMoney Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.
Carbon TaxEconomicsEthics The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it's the right thing to do. It's economics 101, elementary stuff.
EconomicsImpactSocietyTechnologyWork The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
EconomicsFinanceGovernment Policy There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.
Corporate ResponsibilityEconomicsWages Immigrants aren't the reason wages haven't gone up enough; those decisions are made in the boardrooms that too often put quarterly earnings over long-term returns.
Class StructureEconomicsSociety There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
AgricultureEconomicsFamilyHopeYouth Upon the farm of the uncle with whom I lived, we did know of the mortgage as some dreadful damper on youthful hopes of things that could not be bought. I do have a vivid recollection that the major purpose of a farm was to produce a living right on the spot for the family.
EconomicsFuture TechnologiesInnovationNuclear EnergySustainability The nuclear approach I'm involved in is called a traveling-wave reactor, which uses waste uranium for fuel. There's a lot of things that have to go right for that dream to come true - many decades of building demo plants, proving the economics are right. But if it does, you could have cheaper energy with no CO2 emissions.
CapitalismEconomicsExploitationFinanceLabor Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
CompetitionEconomicsIndustrializationLabor MarketWages The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.
CapitalismEconomicsLaborTechnologyWealth Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.
EconomicsGovernment RoleLeadershipRisk ManagementSpace Exploration If you're going to lead a space frontier, it has to be government; it'll never be private enterprise. Because the space frontier is dangerous, and it's expensive, and it has unquantified risks. And under those conditions, you cannot establish a capital-market evaluation of that enterprise. You can't get investors.
Class and SocietyEconomicsPoliticsSocial Policy Democrats believe, plausibly, that middle-class entitlements are instantly addictive and, because there is no known detoxification, that class, when facing future choices between trimming entitlements or increasing taxes, will choose the latter.
CapitalismEconomicsGreedHuman NatureRationality While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
BusinessEconomicsEmploymentFinanceMoney Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.
CapitalismEconomicsInequalityInnovationSocial Responsibility Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn't necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that.
CorrectnessEconomicsProgressSystemsValidation With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.
EconomicsKnowledgeLaborScienceValue The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.
EconomicsSocietyUnemploymentWorkforce When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
American SocietyBusinessCommerceEconomicsProsperity After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.
EconomicsFiscal ResponsibilityGovernment PolicyWealth Management Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.
ChallengesContent FinancingEconomicsEntertainment IndustryHollywood Content financing is a difficult beast no matter what era of Hollywood we're talking about.
EconomicsFutureInnovationPrivate SectorSpace Exploration The first colony on Mars is not going to be built by a private company. How are you going to make money? You're not.
CapitalismEconomicsGrowthInvestmentValue Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.
AdvertisingConsumerismEconomicsInfluenceMarketing Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.
BusinessCautionEconomicsFinanceTrust A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
BackgroundEconomicsEducationEngineeringPhysics My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment - my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.
Corporate PowerEconomicsGovernment PolicyPublic PolicyTaxation Corporations do not pay taxes, they collect them, passing the burden to consumers as a cost of production. And corporate taxation is a feast of rent-seeking - a cornucopia of credits, exemptions and other subsidies conferred by the political class on favored, and grateful, corporations.
EconomicsGovernmentHuman HappinessPublic HealthSuffering Reduction Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness.