Quotes About Markets

In a democracy, you don't need anyone's permission to form a new political party, publish a politically charged article, or organize a 'tea party.' And in open markets, individuals are free to buy and invest as they see fit.

Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.

Wall Street's shenanigans have convinced a large portion of America that the economic game is rigged. Yet capitalism depends on trust. Without trust, people avoid even sensible economic risks. They also begin trading in gray markets and black markets. They think that if the big guys cheat in big ways, they may as well begin cheating in small ways. And when they think the game is rigged, they're easy prey for political demagogues with fast tongues and dumb ideas. Wall

The philosophy of a conglomerate is to buy as far and as wide as possible and diversify its markets. It both uses and refutes the Malthusian

Gold standard caps inflation. If dollars are printed too quickly one can convert gold to pounds to dollars and back to gold again to make profit until the markets adjust back down. Friedman argues that gold standard hampers a government's ability to wage war. But is that a bad thing?

Financial IQ, or financial intelligence, is what makes that possible. It's made up of four things: accounting (financial literacy, or the ability to read numbers and evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of any business), investing (the science and strategies of money making money), understanding markets (the science of supply and demand, and market conditions), and the law (tax advantages and protections).

Great transfers of wealth often occur when laws and markets change, so it is important to pay attention if you want to have those changes work in your favor, and not against you.

contabilidad (educación financiera o capacidad de leer números y evaluar los puntos fuertes y débiles de cualquier negocio); inversiones (ciencia y estrategias de la generación de dinero a través del dinero mismo); comprensión de los mercados (ciencia de la oferta y la demanda, y de las condiciones de los mercados); y la ley o derecho fiscal (ventajas fiscales y protección frente a demandas).

While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.

The economic crisis, so conveniently operated and driven by the markets, by financial groups, by the needs of a globalized economy, faces the task of restoring social control, which the crisis of modernity lost sight of.

Smith believed not that markets make men free but that free men move toward markets. The difference is small but decisive; it is most of what we mean by humanism.

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THE WEALTH OF NATIONS is one of the most important and influential books ever written. It

It is in this manner that money has become in all civilised nations the universal instrument of commerce, by the intervention of which goods of all kinds are bought and sold, or exchanged for one another.

commerce in Europe, as well as a

In all sorts of markets—music, film, art, and politics—the future of popularity will be harder to predict as the broadcast power of radio and television democratizes and the channels of exposure grow.... The gatekeepers had their day. Now there are simply too many gates to keep.

Cultural products will spread faster and wider when everybody can see what everybody else is doing. It suggests that the future of many hit-making markets will be fully open, radically transparent, and very, very unequal.

It begs for a gospel of perseverance through inevitable failure... There is no antidote to the chaos of creative markets. Only the brute doggedness to endure it.

It is important to distinguish between markets as a source and description of value, which is what critics like Michael Sandel challenge, and markets as a process for orchestrating economic activity.

value stocks have actually done better than growth stocks during both bear markets and economic recessions, so it is doubtful this is the answer.

Globalization gives workers in Asia better access to rich-country markets than ever before, and they can do many of the jobs that used to be done in the rich countries, even without being able to migrate. If this happens on a large scale, Asian wages will rise, and American and European wages will fall, narrowing earnings inequality in the world as a whole. The

The markets where we've got real good presence are the older, more mature markets like Australia, and Western Europe - where we've only got 6,000 stores, compared to the US with 13,000.

For WhatsApp to become a privacy-oriented service, it has to risk losing entire markets and clashing with authorities in their home country.

When the dollar goes down relative to other currencies, the price of wheat, corn, rice and oil all go up in dollar terms.