Markets Quotes
641 Markets quotes by 470 unique authors
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If we don't like rent control, we ought to oppose it on political and social grounds - and not just by arguing that, thanks to…
— Evgeny Morozov
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There are good reasons why we don't want everyone to learn nuclear physics, medicine or how financial markets work. Our entire modern project has been…
— Evgeny Morozov
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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…
— Howard Rheingold
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America is the greatest engine of innovation that has ever existed, and it can't be duplicated anytime soon, because it is the product of a…
— Thomas Friedman
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And it seems people should not build houses anymore it seems people should stop working and sit in small rooms on second floors under electric…
— Charles Bukowski
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His voice was cloves and nightingales, it took us to spice markets in the Celebs, we drifted with him on a houseboat beyond the Coral…
— Janet Fitch
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Market moralities and mentalities-- fueled by economic imperatives to make a profit at nearly any cost-- yield unprecedented levels of loneliness, isolation, and sadness. And…
— Cornel West
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Sometimes when she is able to spend the night with him they are wakened by the three minarets of the city beginning their prayers before…
— Michael Ondaatje
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A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his…
— Wendell Berry
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protected businesses never, never become competitive ... Halliburton, Bechtel, Parsons, KPMG, RTI, Blackwater and all other U.S. corporations that were in Iraq to take advantage…
— Naomi Klein
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Prayer is a practical strategy, the gaining of temporal advantage in the capital markets of Sin and Remission.
— Don DeLillo
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The times are too difficult and the crisis too severe to indulge in schadenfreude. Looking at it in perspective, the fact that there would be…
— Noam Chomsky
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THE CORRECTION, when it finally came, was not an overnight bursting of a bubble but a much more gentle letdown, a year-long leakage of value…
— Jonathan Franzen
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In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.
— Matt Taibbi
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The widely accepted assertion that, only if you let markets be will everyone be paid correctly and thus fairly, according to his worth, is a…
— Ha-Joon Chang
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We live in a culture that has institutionalized the oppression of animals on at least two levels: in formal structures such as slaughterhouses, meat markets,…
— Carol J. Adams
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[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in…
— David Graeber
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Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
— John Maynard Keynes
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Markets are useful instruments for organizing productive activity. But unless we want to let the market rewrite the norms that govern social institutions, we need…
— Michael Sandel
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I’ve since come to understand that the universe operates on the same general equilibrium theory as markets.It never gives you something without making you pay…
— Gayle Forman
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What makes a media company successful is how it copes with competitive markets in which people have a choice. Competition today is at a more…
— James Murdoch
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The world is becoming more affluent. We are generating more and more money - so more spending will go on. In the west, we're opening…
— Joe Staton
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The enemy aggressor is always pursuing a course of larceny, murder, rapine, and barbarism. We are always moving forward with high mission, a destiny imposed…
— John T. Flynn
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Labour markets are about people. And people have a right to be treated with dignity and respect.
— Juan Somavia
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To invest successfully, you need not understand beta, efficient markets, modern portfolio theory, option pricing or emerging markets. You may, in fact, be better off…
— Warren Buffett
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