“We're subject to the same forces of capitalism that have built the entire American economy. Strong returns induce more capital flow, which creates more competitors, and you have to evolve and get better, or you die.” DiesStrongForceEconomySubjectsReturnCapitalismBuiltFlowEvolveGet BetterCompetitorsAmerican Economy Author:Kenneth C. Griffin
“We preach free enterprise capitalism. We believe in it, we give our lives in war for it, but the closest most of us come to profiting from it are a few miserable shares of stock in a company that doesn't pay large enough dividends to keep a small mouse in cheese. The truth is, most of us are job serfs. At a time when invested capital returns 20 to 30 percent, we have no capital. We only have our wages and salaries, and a debt so high that something like 20c on every dollar we earn is spent to pay off what we owe.” GivingBelieveWarEnoughWisdomJobsPoliticsPayCompanyEconomyOur LivesShareReturnTruth IsPercentCapitalismDollarsDebtMiserableLiberalismEnterpriseClosestCheeseMiceWagesSalaryDividendsFree EnterpriseSerfs Book:Left at the post Source: Left at the post
“If we functionally define a capitalist household as one that receives at least half of the annual income it spends on consumption in the form of return on invested capital, less than 1 percent of United States households are capitalists.” IfsStatesWisdomFormPoliticsUnitedHalfUnited StatesEconomyReturnPercentIncomeLiberalismCapitalistHouseholdConsumptionAnnuals Author:Louis O. Kelso
“If we can return to a government that the Founders, in their wisdom, envisioned for us, we can return to a government that will allow our economy to thrive again, and our people to live in liberty.” PeopleIfsGovernmentLibertyEconomyReturnThriveFounders Author:Nan Hayworth
“We need a president that is sitting down, getting Americans to work, getting this economy going. That is the single most important thing that the president of the United States does, is create a climate where job creators know that they're going to be able to risk their capital and have a chance to have a return on the investment. And it's never too late to start that.” KnowsNeedsDoeImportantStatesAbleJobsPresidentChanceUnitedUnited StatesEconomyRiskReturnLateSittingImportant ThingsInvestmentClimateCreatorToo LateSitting DownNever Too LateJob Creators Author:Rick Perry
“President Bush released his tax returns yesterday. He listed the economy as a liability. He gets to write that off.” WritingPresidentEconomyReturnTaxesYesterdayPresident BushLiabilityTax Returns Author:Jay Leno
“No single Tibetan dreaming return of previous sort of backwardness, therefore as far as economy development is concerned, Tibet remain within the People's Republic of China, we will get greater benefit.” PeopleDreamEconomyGreaterDevelopmentReturnBenefitsConcernedChinaRepublicTibetanTibet Author:Dalai Lama
“No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.” CommunityEconomyReturnFoundationInvestmentEducatedYieldWorkforceInvestment In Education Author:Brad Henry
“As I said, there are two approaches-first, a strong economy, stability and helping families or, secondly, the Tory cuts, the undermining of stability, and a return to the boom and bust of the 1990s.” FirstsSaidTwoHelpingStrongEconomyCuttingReturnApproachStabilityUnderminingStrong Economy Author:Alistair Darling
“If economics wants to understand the new economy, it not only has to understand increasing returns and the dynamics of instability. It also has to look at cognition itself, something we have never done before in economics.” IfsWantLooksDoneEconomyReturnEconomicsCognitionDynamicsInstability Author:W. Brian Arthur
“The recent period has been marked by a transformation to an economy that is more productive as competitive forces become increasingly intense and new technologies raise the efficiency of our businesses...While these tendencies were no doubt in train in the "old," pre-1990s economy, they accelerated over the past decade as a number of technologies with their roots in the cumulative innovations of the past half-century began to yield dramatic economic returns.” Has BeensPastForceNumbersHalfTechnologyEconomyDoubtEconomicCenturyReturnPeriodsRootsTransformationInnovationRaisesTrainDecadesIntenseTendenciesDramaticNo DoubtProductiveYieldEfficiencyOver The PastNew TechnologyCumulative Author:Alan Greenspan