Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Ricardo

Like all other contracts, wages should be left to the fair and free competition of themarket, and should never be controlled by the interference of the legislature.

Arnold Palmer

When you get into competition and get under pressure, and get over that ball and are looking at it, and know you have to hit it, it is having that system to depend on to get that ball to where you want it to be.

Frederic Bastiat

They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers.

Frederic Bastiat

Competition is merely the absence of oppression.

Mark Robison

We had a very good two days of competition this weekend.

Damarius Bilbo

When I got to the sidelines, Calvin said, 'Man, I've got some competition for highlights now,' ... He was just joking, you know. There's not another Calvin Johnson. I mean, he's like Michael Jordan. One only comes around every 10, 20 years.

Dora Russell

Hence we did not foster competition in our school, on the contrary.

Takeru Kobayashi

If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.

Vince Testa

We're looking at a pretty tough schedule. New competition is going to be a test.

Deborah Kerr

[Autobiographies] are all the same - it's always rags-to-riches or I-slept-with-so-and-so. Damned if I'm going to say that.

Charles Jaffe

It's not how much money you make that makes you rich, it's how you spend it.

Bill James

You're just too poor to get rich.

Alexis de Tocqueville

It is certain that despotism ruins individuals by preventing them from producing wealth much more than by depriving them of what they have already produced; it dries up the source of riches, while it usually respects acquired property. Freedom, on the contrary, produces far more goods than it destroys; and the nations which are favored by free institutions invariably find that their resources increase even more rapidly than their taxes.

Jason Aldean

I didn't get into music to become famous and I didn't get into music to become rich either - I got into because I liked it.

R. Robinson

Me and Rich wore vests so you would know we were brothers.

Paul Cordes

Many were struck by ... poverty, at times shameful, in rich America,

David Brooks

The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them.

Bernard Goldberg

A lot of so-called rich, according to this legislation, make $250,000. That's a lot of money, but it is not rich.

Timothy Noah

Sometime, while I wasn't paying attention, trickle-down economics got respectable.

Benjamin Disraeli

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

Mitchell Cohen

The problem with vaccines is not a new problem, ... For the last decade, we have had reduction in the number of vaccine manufacturers. ...The issue comes down primarily to economics ... Profit margins are small.

Sylvia Porter

One of the soundest rules I try to remember when making forecasts in the field of economics is that whatever is to happen is happening already

George Shinn

But we've got to remember the economics have to be there to support it,

Clive Granger

I think it is true to say that I am not the first Nobel Prize winner in economics to have little formal training in economics.

Dannel Malloy

You know and I know and economists know that trickle-down economics doesn't work.

Albert Einstein

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of others.

Ron Moody

I went to the London School of Economics to study sociology and psychology on a serviceman's grant.