Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Beveridge

There is no inherent mechanism in our present system which can with certainty prevent competitive sectional bargaining for wages from setting up a vicious spiral of rising prices under full employment.

Walter Wriston

Rising prices or wages do not cause inflation; they only report it. They represent an essential form of economic speech, sincemoney isjust another form of information.

Janet Yellen

My bottom line is that monetary policy should react to rising prices for houses or other assets only insofar as they affect the central bank's goal variables - output, employment, and inflation.

Ludwig von Mises

Government policies try to prevent the emergence of serious unemployment by credit expansion, i.e., inflation. The outcome was rising prices, renewed demands for higher wages and reiterated credit expansion; in short, protracted inflation.

Richard Dawkins

Science ha seradicated smallpox, can immunise against most previously deadly viruses, can kill most previously deadly bacteria. Theology has done nothing but talk of pestilence as the wages of sin.

Henry Ford

Paying good wages is not charity at all-it is the best kind of business.

Friedrich August von Hayek

We know, in other words, the general conditions in which what we call, somewhat misleadingly, an equilibrium will establish itself: but we never know what the particular prices or wages are which would exist if the market were to bring about such an equilibrium.

Kenneth Rogoff

Global markets have a much bigger effect on prices and wages in the U.S. and elsewhere than they did before.

Karl Marx

No sooner is the exploitation of the labourer by the manufacturer, so far, at an end, that he receives his wages in cash, than he is set upon by the other portions of the bourgeoisie, the landlord, the shopkeeper, the pawnbroker, etc.

Milton Friedman

Every economist knows that minimum wages either do nothing or cause inflation and unemployment. That's not a statement, it's a definition.

John Howard

I've never believed in lower wages. Never. Never believed in lower wages, I've never believed in lower wages as an economic instrument.

James Sinegal

Paying good wages is not in opposition to good productivity.

Jim Rohn

Profits are better than wages.

Richard M. Nixon

There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.

Virginia Woolf

Speech is an old torn net, through which the fish escape as one casts it over them.

Salman Rushdie

A figure of speech is a shifty thing; it can be twisted or it can be straight.

Salman Rushdie

Free speech is life itself.

Robert Southey

There are three things in speech that ought to be considered before some things are spoken--the manner, the place and the time.

Robert Orben

Humor is the most honest of emotions. Applause for a speech can be insincere, but with humor, if the audience doesn't like it there's no faking it.

Robert Louis Stevenson

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Roland Barthes

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.

Robin Quivers

We shouldn't have free speech.