Quotes About Economy

An economy is a "noosphere" (a mind-based system), and it can revive as quickly as minds and policies can change.

The economy is a test and measurement system, and it requires reliable learning guided by an accurate meter of monetary value. The

Alphabet, is worth nearly $800 billion, only about $100 billion less than Apple. How do you get rich by giving things away? Google does it through one of the most ingenious technical schemes in the history of commerce. Page's and Brin's crucial insight was that the existing advertising system, epitomized by Madison Avenue, was linked to the old information economy, led by television, which Google would overthrow.

The risk-bearing role of the rich cannot be performed so well by anyone else. The benefits of capitalism still depend on capitalists. The other groups on the pyramid of wealth should occasionally turn from the spectacles of consumption long enough to see the adventure on the frontiers of the economy above them - an adventure not without its note of nobility...

The spirit of trade cannot coexist with war, and sooner or later this spirit dominates every people.

To design a desk which may cost £1,000 is easy for a furniture designer, but to design a functional and good desk which shall cost only £50 can only be done by the very best

La Roumanie est en guerre avec le capitalisme, intervint CeauÈ™escu. (Il bégaie toujours légèrement lorsqu'il aborde un sujet important ou lorsqu'il est en colère.) N-nous ne p-pouvons pas vaincre avec les m-machines à l-laver. C-ce sont des d-dollars qui n-nous faut pour p-protéger la l-liberté de n-notre peuple. Et n-nous gagnerons plus de d-dollars en vendant des armes que des appareils m-ménagers. (p. 40)

Mankind's future] was always at the mercy of economic and sociological forces it did not understand—at the whims of climate, and the fortunes of war. Now the Machines understand them; and no one can stop them, since the Machines will deal with them as they are dealing with the Society,—having, as they do, the greatest of weapons at their disposal, the absolute control of our economy.

It was a low point in history – but it was the end of nationalism. Earth was too small for nations and they began grouping themselves into Regions. It took quite a while. When I was born the United States of America was still a nation and not merely a part of the Northern Region. In fact, the name of the corporation is still "United States Robots—". And the change from nations to Regions, which has stabilized our economy and brought about what amounts to a Golden Age

The primary reason for the development of trade and traders was to introduce and spread this religion more quickly, and to insure that the introduction of new techniques and a new economy would be subject to our thorough and intimate control.

Se creó un aparente milagro económico a un gran costo social

Well, we don't think for a moment that either the U.S. or Australia are out to damage the New Zealand economy, but if there were a sustained period in which they had a free-trade agreement and New Zealand didn't have that same arrangement with the States, that could be both trade- and investment-distorting.

I want to get down to the nuts and bolts of what is actually going to change to lift New Zealand's economic performance.

The Government has to stop borrowing as much money; if we don't, quite frankly New Zealand will be downgraded and interest rates will go up for all New Zealanders.

We are a small, open economy, highly dependent on global flows. It is inevitably a demand that dramatically alters and that is reflected in what we feel here in New Zealand. So there is at its most basic level a limit to what we can do and that is true everywhere.

New Zealand's economy may be more immune... from the waves of disruption elsewhere, but I guarantee you, it's not that immune.

New Zealand's food and beverage industry is the lynchpin of the country's prosperity. Which may explain why it has concentrated their governments' minds.

New Zealand obviously is fully integrated into the global economy.

The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.

When inflation begins to rise, that's a situation we know how to deal with. When the economy is not doing well, and we're stuck at zero, that's one we don't know so much about - or we know about it that it's bad.

I'm a little bit nervous for us with all of this electronically generated new hyper-space that we've moved into, where not only people but also economies and systems, like banking, are left to zeros and ones. I want to be more than a zero or one.

At the end of the day, it's not a normal condition to have interest rates at zero.

We're becoming a planet of a thousand new major cities. The economy of the 21st century is a city-building economy. It's within our power to make it a carbon zero one, too; and to be blunt, civilization depends on our success.

If you allow for a purely capitalistic society, without any type of regulation at all, you will get one monopoly that will eat all of the smaller fish and own everything, and then you'll have zero capitalism, zero competition - it would just be one giant company.