Economic Activity Quotes
43 quotes by 40 authors
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Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls - you don't find a…
— Bill Bryson
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The wealth of the nation is its air, water, soil, forests, minerals, rivers, lakes, oceans, scenic beauty, wildlife habitats and biodiversity... that's all there is.…
— Gaylord Nelson
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Companies die because their managers focus on the economic activity of producing goods and services, and they forget that their organizations' true nature is that…
— Arie de Geus
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Economic activity is carried out by individuals in organisations that require a high degree of social co-operation
— Francis Fukuyama
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The supremacy of Parliament and the embedding of property rights in Common Law put political power in the hands of men anxious to exploit the…
— Douglass North
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Interest rates are going to go up because employment is going to go up. If employment goes up, then our apartments get filled. And if…
— Sam Zell
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If our economies are to flourish, if global poverty is to be banished, and if the well-being of the world's people enhanced - not just…
— Gordon Brown
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Lower rates of taxation will stimulate economic activity and so raise the levels of personal and corporate income as to yield within a few years…
— John F. Kennedy
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You are smart people. You know that the tax cuts have not fueled record revenues … You know that the first order effect of cutting…
— Andrew Samwick
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It violates right order whenever capital so employs the working or wage-earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its own arbitrary…
— Pope Pius XI
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I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment.
— Gale Norton
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Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the…
— Barry Commoner
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I stress – I don't believe that economic equality is possible; indeed some measure of inequality is essential for the spirit of envy and keeping…
— Boris Johnson
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Without calculation, economic activity is impossible. Since under Socialism economic calculation is impossible, under Socialism there can be no economic activity in our sense of…
— Ludwig von Mises
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All economic activity is dependent upon that environment and its underlying resource base of forests, water, air, soil, and minerals. When the environment is finally…
— Gaylord Nelson
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Prior to the advent of the civilization of the Third Estate (mercantilism, capitalism), the social ethics that was religiously sanctioned in the West consisted in…
— Julius Evola
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Each central banksought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity…
— Carroll Quigley
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Economic activity is no longer an adversarial contest between embattled sellers and buyers "In the distributed economy, where collaboration trumps competition, inclusivity replaces exclusivity and…
— Jeremy Rifkin
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The Free Market is Mother Nature's way of organizing economic activity.
— David D. Aitken
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...there's no such thing as sustainability. There are just levels of it. It's a process, not a real goal. All you can do is work…
— Yvon Chouinard
Who Wrote These Economic Activity Quotes
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