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 | "A financier is a pawn-broker with imagination." | |
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Sir Arthur Wing Pinero
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| "A nation is not in danger of financial disaster merely because it
owes itself money." | |
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Andrew William Mellon
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| "A smiling face is half the meal." | |
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Proverb
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| "A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy
anything is last year." | |
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Marty Allen
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| "About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the
ends." | |
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Herbert Clark Hoover
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| "All great questions of politics and economics come down in the last
analysis to the decisions and actions of individual men and women. They
are questions of human relations, and we ought always to think about them
in terms of men and women?the individual human beings who are involved in
them. If we can get human relations on a proper basis, the statistics,
finance and all other complicated technical aspects of these questions
will be easier to solve." | |
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Thomas J. Watson
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| "All human history attests That happiness for man, the hungry sinner!
? Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner." | |
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Lord George Gordon Byron
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| "An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the
incomprehensible." | |
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Alfred A. Knopf
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| "An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he
predicted yesterday didn"t happen." | |
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Earl Wilson
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| "Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all
night and eat anything." | |
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Herb Caen
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| "Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the
things they make it easier to do don"t need to be done." | |
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Andy Rooney
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| "Doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth that
he cannot endure in his age." | |
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William Shakespeare
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| "Economy is going without something you do want in case you should,
some day, want something which you probably won"t want." | |
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Anthony Hawkins
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| "Everyone is always in favor of general economy and particular
expenditure." | |
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Sir Anthony Eden
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| "Feast, and your halls are crowded; Fast, and the world goes
by." | |
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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| "Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic
activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of
coercion ? the technique of the army and of the modern totalitarian state.
The other is voluntary cooperation of individuals ? the technique of the
marketplace." | |
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Milton Friedman
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| "Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, "on one hand
... on the other."" | |
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Harry S. Truman
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| "Government"s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short
phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it
stops moving, subsidize it." | |
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Ronald Wilson Reagan
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| "Honor"s a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he"s
right honorable." | |
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Francis Beaumont
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| "I don"t like spinach, and I"m glad I don"t, because if I liked it
I"d eat it, and I just hate it." | |
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Clarence Seward Darrow
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| "I have noticed that when chickens quit quarreling over their food,
they often find that there is enough for all of them. I wonder if it might
not be the same with the human race." | |
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Don Marquis
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| "I learned more about economics from one South Dakota dust storm than
I did in all my years at college." | |
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Hubert H. Humphrey, Jr.
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| "I place economy among the first and important virtues, and public
debt as the greatest of dangers. To preserve our independence, we must not
let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our choice between
economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we can prevent the
government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of
caring for them, they will be happy." | |
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Thomas Jefferson
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| "I want to keep fighting because it is the only thing that keeps me
out of the hamburger joints. If I don?t fight, I?ll eat this
planet." | |
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George Foreman
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| "If you want to make life easy, make it hard." | |
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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| "Imagine believing in the control of inflation by curbing the money
supply! That is like deciding to stop your dog fouling the sidewalk by
plugging up its rear end. It is highly unlikely to succeed, but if it does
it kills the hound." | |
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Michael D. Stephens
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| "In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are
honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and
iron resolution." | |
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Wendell Lewis Willkie
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| "It costs a lot of money to look this cheap. (about herself)" | |
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Dolly Parton
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| "It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings
and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and
to restrain their expense. They are themselves, always, and without any
exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society." | |
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Adam Smith
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| "It [training] doesn"t get easier; you just get faster." | |
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Greg Lemond
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| "Keep your words sweet?you may have to eat them." | |
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Unknown
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| "Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the
fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first
existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher
consideration." | |
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Abraham Lincoln
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| "Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of
living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "Man is what he eats." | |
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Ludwig Feuerbach
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| "One of the soundest rules to remember when making forecasts in the
field of economics is that whatever is to happen is happening
already." | |
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Sylvia Porter
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| "One should eat to live, and not live to eat." | |
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Jean Baptiste Moliére
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| "One should eat to live, not live to eat." | |
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Benjamin Franklin
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| "People are the common denominator of progress. So ... no improvement
is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are
liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of
roads, railroads, power plants, mills, and the other familiar furniture of
economic development.... But we are coming to realize ... that there is a
certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of
illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first." | |
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John Kenneth Galbraith
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| "People want economy, and they"ll pay any price to get it." | |
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Lee Iaccoca
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| "Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any
intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct
economist.... It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for
good or evil." | |
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John Maynard, Baron Keynes of Tilton
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| "Reason should direct and appetite obey." | |
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
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| "Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of
income." | |
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Logan Pearsall Smith
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| "Spare no expense to make everything as economical as
possible." | |
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Samuel Goldwyn
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| "That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly. It is
dearness only which gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a
proper price on its goods." | |
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Thomas Paine
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| "The injury of prodigality leads to this, that he who will not
economize will have to agonize." | |
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Kung Fu-tzu Confucius
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| "The most important things to do in the world are to get something to
eat, something to drink and somebody to love you." | |
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Brendan Behan
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| "The proof of the pudding is in the eating. By a small sample we may
judge of the whole piece." | |
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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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| "The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be
willing to economize." | |
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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| "The truth is, we are all caught in a great economic system which is
heartless." | |
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Woodrow Wilson
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| "The world abhors closeness, and all but admires extravagance; yet a
slack hand shows weakness, and a tight hand strength." | |
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Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
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| "There can be no security where there is fear." | |
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Felix Frankfurter
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| "They that die by famine die by inches." | |
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Matthew Henry
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| "This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner
to ask a man to." | |
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Dr. Samuel Johnson
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| "We are enjoying sluggish times and not enjoying them very
much." | |
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George Herbert Walker Bush
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| "We think so because other people all think so, Or because?or
because?after all we do think so, Or because we were told so, and think we
must think so, Or because we once thought so, and think we still think so,
Or because having thought so, we think we will think so." | |
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Henry Sidgwick
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| "What we might call, by way of eminence, the Dismal Science." | |
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Thomas Carlyle
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| "WHEAT, n. A cereal from which a tolerably good whisky can be made;
... also for bread. The French are said to eat more bread "per capita" of
population than any other people, which is natural, for only they know how
to make the stuff palatable." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "When asked what was the proper time for supper: If you are a rich
man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you
can." | |
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Diogenes the Cynic
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| "When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat." | |
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Mark Twain
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| "When we lose, I eat. When we win, I eat. I also eat when we"re
rained out." | |
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Tommy Lasorda
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| "Without economy none can be rich, and with it few can be
poor." | |
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Samuel Johnson
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