Quotes About Markets

A conservative vision to tech issues assumes the imperfection of mankind and a preference for markets - not politics - to drive outcomes.

I've spent a career working in tech as a software engineer. And I believe regulated markets are the best way to build and deliver innovative products.

I think it's a competitive advantage that both Amazon and Google and other tech companies have over a lot of their counterparts. They take big risks and are pioneering new markets with the promise of big rewards. It's why Amazon is kind of reliably starting new businesses and opening kind of new frontiers.

What we can say with confidence is that the technological revolution is worsening inequality, due mostly to mechanisms that limit free markets. It is also bringing about disruptive change that is intensifying insecurity and may indeed lead to large-scale labor displacement.

Technology business increasingly becomes difficult to predict because technology itself is accelerating in change, and human nature and markets are more stagnant and static. But the dynamic engine of technological innovation continues unabated.

A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.

Markets are as old as the crossroads. But capitalism, as we know it, is only a few hundred years old, enabled by cooperative arrangements and technologies, such as the joint-stock ownership company, shared liability insurance, double-entry bookkeeping.

Markets - on their own - will not make investments in the technologies and infrastructure that would benefit an entire industry.

'Baahubali's success augurs well for the Telugu film industry as a whole. It has opened up new markets.

Robert J. Shiller

Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

Regardless of how earnestly bankers trumpeted the virtues of laissez-faire, in times of unrest markets looked to Washington to provide stability.

As Keynes observed, there cannot be "liquidity" for the community as a whole.6 The mistake is in thinking that markets have a duty to stay liquid or that buyers will always be present to accommodate sellers.

Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. —JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES

They worked in the interstices left by the big Christian houses and dealt more directly in markets than the Morgans did.

A born contrarian, Rockefeller insisted upon buying in declining markets and selling in rising ones.

Despite the low price of Russian oil, Standard barred it from America and retained nearly 80 percent of world markets in the late 1880s.

What else can be bought and sold unobtrusively and is worth that much? Diamonds, maybe, but they're in Antwerp, not Hamburg. Drugs, maybe, but no American has a hundred million dollars' worth ready to ship. That's South and Central America. And Afghanistan has poppies of its own.

British merchants became notably more aggressive and successful in exploring extra-European markets, and Crisp's progress, from a concentration on Mediterranean commerce to involvement in ever more distant seas, perfectly exemplified this trend.

Free markets are the real people's revolution.

As a society we can't live without moral considerations. We do have to protect the public good. And markets are not designed to do that, so we need a political process.

Constructing efficient and beautiful infrastructure is part of building efficient and beautiful markets.

All this relates to markets, because building a new transportation system is about building a new market system of production and exchange. If you do it right, you make things faster and more efficient. And you need government to do it.

We create the kind of markets we want. If we build elegant infrastructure, we have elegant markets.