Quotes About Economy

The southern leaders perceived the transcontinental as the means of extending their plantation economy westward, replicating the same kind of small-town America characteristic of the antebellum South and, crucially, retaining the slave labor that was integral to their way of life: "The South saw land in a traditional light, as home and heritage, not as a natural resource to benefit capital and state.

Le grand danger qui guette la lutte des femmes aujourd'hui est celui-ci : que l'en deça de la question féministe soit présenté et vécu, comme son au-delà, permettant ou visant à permettre, l'économie...de la lutte tout simplement.

Seuls les ménages agricoles élèvent des cochons, mais c'est dans tous les ménages que l'on cuit des côtelettes. Par conséquent tous les ménages, et non les seuls ménages agricoles, produisent pour leur propre consommation. C'est donc une somme importante de services et de valeurs que néglige la Comptabilité nationale.

La non-valeur marchande est caractéristique de l'économie familiale. Elle ne signale pas l'absence d'activité économique, mais la présence d'une économie autre.

Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture, health care, and life sciences is directly related to scientific advancement.

We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.

Five long centuries of absolutism -from Ivan the Terrible to the Soviet seventies- had left the Russian massed submissive. In their personal lives, I found them ingenious in beating the numbing inefficiency of the state economy. Their black market was so vast that it operated as a countereconomy, even to the extent of producing underground millionaires. But in the sphere of political action, grass-roots initative was moribund.

twenty pfennigs per pound. Hitler

its own survival into the future depended on its ability to harness economic change in order, in the immediate term, to resolve the crisis of near state bankruptcy caused by its own economic policies (autarky),

the ultra laissez-faire industrialization pursued by the Franco regime,

inhabitants paid cripplingly high taxes. Which meant that we would, too. Oh brilliant! We'll be even more skint by the end of the month than we are already… But for your Danish krone, I learned, you got a comprehensive welfare system, free healthcare, free education (including university tuition), subsidised childcare and unemployment insurance guaranteeing 80 per cent of your wages for two years.

If our starting point is a respect for nature and people, diversity is an inevitable consequence. If technology and the needs of the economy are our starting point, then we have what we are faced with today—a model of development that is dangerously distanced from the needs of particular peoples and places and rigidly imposed from the top down.

Pirenne was quite right that the ancient trading economy continued after the first invasions and the establishment of the mixed Romano-barbarian successor kingdoms. Some kind of connectivity by sea endured continuously, even if at very low levels (Horden and Purcell 2000).

The economic basis of the State did not correspond with the administrative character which Charlemagne had endeavoured to preserve. The economy of the State was based upon the great domain without commercial outlets. The landowners had no need of security, since they did not engage in commerce. Such a form of property is perfectly consistent with anarchy. Those who owned the soil had no need of the king.

Ultimately, these acts of abuse and aggression offer evidence of a new reality emerging in the United States that enshrines a politics of disposability, in which growing numbers of people are considered to be a dispensable drain on the economy and thus an affront to the sensibilities of the rich and powerful.

Most Hispanics are concerned with the same issues other Americans are - the economy, jobs, education. Similar to Main Street America.

I hope that it will yet be said, America is America's best customer.

They take their pride in making their dinner cost much; I take my pride in making my dinner cost little

It is not the employer who pays the wages. He only handles the money. It is the product that pays the wages.

Money is like an arm or leg- use it or lose it.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

Speculation into thing already produced that is not business

The end of money is not ease but the opportunity to perform more service.

Strive for minimum waste, minimum profit, maximum distribution.