I Quotes
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“Inflation is the crabgrass in your savings.”
“Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward totalitarianism .”
Source: The Theory of Money and Credit
“Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.”
“Inflation is the parent of unemployment and the unseen robber of those who have saved.”
“Inflation is the senility of democracies.”
“Inflation is the true opium of the people and it is administered to them by anticapitalist governments and parties.”
“Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.”
“Inflation makes the wealthiest people richer and the masses poorer.”
“Inflation takes from the ignorant and gives to the well informed.”
Source: Money dynamics for the new economy
“Inflation usually helps the economy at large, but not the 1% if wages rise. So the 1% says that it is terrible.”
“Inflation, being a fraudulent invasion of property, could not take place on the free market.”
Source: What Has Government Done to Our Money?
“Inflation, especially a slow steady rise in prices, encourages producers, because it means that they can commit themselves to costs of production on one price level and then, later, offer the finished product for sale at a somewhat higher price level. This situation encourages production because it gives confidence of an almost certain profit margin.”
Source: Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time
“Inflationary trends are under way. Wage increases, through strikes or threatened strikes, are rampant. Government expenditures are ballooning ominously. Hoarding has contributed unconscionably to price-boosting. The Government should institute measures calculated to arrest inflation. America's commitments are already so mountainous, international and domestic, that the pruning knife should be applied. You and I, all American taxpayers, don't possess limitless resources-our pockets are not bottomless. Curb inflation at every turn!”
“Inflationism, however, is not an isolated phenomenon. It is only one piece in the total framework of politico-economic and socio-philosophical ideas of our time. Just as the sound money policy of gold standard advocates went hand in hand with liberalism, free trade, capitalism and peace, so is inflationism part and parcel of imperialism, militarism, protectionism, statism and socialism.”
Source: On the Manipulation of Money and Credit
“Inflexibility is the worst human failing. You can learn to check impetuosity, overcome fear with confidence and laziness with discipline. But for rigidity of mind, there is no antidote. It carries the seeds of its own destruction.”
“Inflict not on an enemy every injury in your power, for he may afterwards become your friend.”
Source: Gulistan or Rose Garden
“Inflict the least possible permanent injury, for the enemy of to-day is the customer of the morrow and the ally of the future”
“Inflicting harm on another is not the only crime, silently seeing harm inflicted on another is also a crime.”
“Inflicting harm on another is not the only crime, silently seeing harm inflicted on another is also a crime, and perhaps the latter is more criminal in nature than the former, for keeping silent when another is being wronged is an act of implicit promotion of that wrong without the accountability.”
Source: Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon
“Inflowing thoughts come to an end in those who are ever alert of mind, training themselves night and day, and ever intent on nirvana”
“Influence becomes power only when measured with clarity, because growth is never a guess, it is a pattern revealed through data”
Source: The 60-Day Brand Breakthrough: A Complete Marketing Roadmap for New Brands
“Influence comes out of the work that you've done and the things you've stood for. Influence and power shouldn't be given to just anybody who wants them.”
“Influence creates affluence. Affluence does not create influence. Affluence makes you more of who you already are.”
“Influence does not require position.”
“influence flows across networks up to three degrees away. What your friends’ friends eat or do or think will influence what you eat or do or think—but further connections will not.”
Source: The Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Networked World
“Influence follows close upon the heels of character; and whatever we are, that we shall in the end be acknowledged to be.”
Source: Historical pictures retouched: A volume of miscellanies. In two parts
“Influence is a matter of selection - both acceptance and rejection.”
Source: Conversations with Edward Albee
“Influence is a very tenuous matter. I try to avoid it in every respect. I don't want to be influenced by anybody.”
“Influence is a very unpleasant subject and I deal with it in a maybe irresponsible way, which is to really ignore it. It would be a nightmare if we started to really think about it; it would tie our hands, it would tie everyone elses hands.”
“Influence is about being genuine.”
“Influence is exerted by every human being from the hour of birth to that of death.”
“Influence is getting others to do what you want them to do because they want to do it - a take on Eisenhower's famous leadership statement”
“Influence is having people follow you because of what you represent,”
“Influence is just persuasion in slow motion.”
“Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got”
“Influence is like water. Always flowing somewhere.”
“Influence is not about what you can do but how you use it to change the lives of others”
“Influence is not government.”
Source: The Writings of George Washington: pt.III. Private letters from the time Washington resigned his commission as commander-in-chief of the army to that of his inauguration as president of the United States: December, 1783-April, 1789. 1835
“Influence is not the same as authority. Authority can be abused by influence gives.”
“Influence is providing attention and value to others.”
“Influence is the ability to move a person to a desired action.”
Source: Adversaries into Allies: Win People Over Without Manipulation or Coercion
“Influence is the key word in any definition of leadership.”
“Influence is the platform God gives you to help others succeed.”
“Influence is the single most important skill you can master in your lifetime.”
“Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.”
Source: Lectures on the Elevation of the Laboring Portion of the Community
“Influence is when you are not the one talking and yet your words fill the room; when you are absent and yet your presence is felt everywhere.”
“Influence is when you don't talk and yet your words fill the room; when you are absent and yet your presence is felt everywhere.”
“Influence isn’t loud. It’s consistent.”
Source: Money's Dirty Little Secrets: How to Break the Rules, Get Filthy Rich, and Laugh All the Way to the Bank
“Influence means power, and I don't want that. Whatever happens, here we do our own thing and put it out there for people to take or leave. We're not doing anything to influence them.”
“Influence must ever be in proportion to property; and it is right it should.”
Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides