Quotes About Resources

Mississippi is akin to an underdeveloped country.

I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources.

The most efficient labor-saving device is still money.

No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.

Money is the great equalizer.

What I said when Otter Creek came up is that we in Montana have a history of giving away our resources. We need to make sure Montana is getting its share.

There is more He-3 energy on the Moon than we have ever had in the form of fossil fuels on Earth. All we have to do is to go there and get it.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

The more things you own, the more people you need to employ.

With fewer resources to share around more people, how can the poor have improved lifestyles?

los precios coordinan el uso de los recursos de tal manera que cada recurso se emplea tan sólo en la cantidad que es igual en valor a lo que vale para otros en usos distintos.

los recursos de una economía se usan ineficientemente cuando existe un monopolio, porque estos recursos estarían siendo transferidos de usos con mayor valor a usos con menor valor.

In understanding Black Africa, geography is more important than history. Fernand Braudel

Bajo un sistema de precios, la gente se raciona a sí misma. El racionamiento de recursos a través de los precios limita la cantidad que cada individuo puede tomar de la producción de otros a la productividad que cada individuo ha creado por sí mismo para otros, y que por lo tanto se ha ganado en calidad de ingreso. Los controles de precios, subvenciones y otros sustitutos a la asignación de precios, reducen los incentivos para el autorracionamiento.

People who want special taxes or subsidies for particular things seem not to understand that what they are really asking for is for prices to misstate the relative scarcities of things and the relative values that the users of these things put on them. . . Making anything artificially cheap usually means that it will be wasted.

en exceso. Muchas veces el mismo producto está en ambas categorías al mismo tiempo: escasea en una

war is a matter not so much of arms as of money

La economía trata de quién consigue qué y por qué. En

But I would also warn against diverting too many of the Empire's resources from a flexible navy of capital ships and starfighters to massive projects that can bring the Imperial presence to only one system at a time.

But she wasn't a serving girl in a Phorliss cantina this time, or a come-up flector for a swoop gang on Caprioril, or even a hyperdrive mechanic stuck in the backwater of the Ison Corridor. She was second in command to the most powerful smuggler in the galaxy, with the kind of resources and mobility she hadn't had since the death of the Emperor. [p] The kind of resources that would let her find Luke Skywalker again. And kill him

we define connected educators simply as ones who are actively and constantly seeking new opportunities and resources to grow as professionals.

War is the ultimate criminal act, an armed robbery writ large. And it's always about greed. It's always a nation that wants something another nation has. And you defeat that nation by recognizing what it wants and denying it to them.

appears that they want what the Russians have, the new oil and gold discoveries.

Why, Tanuki grumbled, would they fell trees but leave men standing? Trees are a damn sight more useful than people, and everything in the world knows that but people.