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"It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country."
"The Russians can't change us or significantly weaken us. They are a smaller country. They are a weaker country. Their economy doesn't produce anything that anybody wants to buy, except oil and gas and arms. They don't innovate. But they can impact us if we lose track of who we are."
"We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information."
"Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal. It was Mussolini's success in Italy, with his government-directed economy, that led the early New Dealers to say "But Mussolini keeps the trains running on time."
"Inflation is repudiation."
"There can be economy only where there is efficiency."
"I think because we're such a trading nation, I think Canadians understand that first and foremost we're part of the global economy."
"Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves - their strengths, their values, and how they best perform."
"We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time."
"Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them."
"So where in the old economy, content was king, in the new economy, context is king."
"If the economy becomes disembodied from society it can only lead to disaster."
"Is the economy something organic or is it something engineered? I think it's closer to the organic. You harm it by artificially suppressing volatility in it."
"Determine to do some thinking for yourself. Don't live entirely upon the thoughts of others. Don't be an automaton."
"Supporting local food production is so much healthier for people. It's better for the local economy, and it's a lot of fun."
"The best of merchandise will go back to the shelf unless handled by a conscientious, tactful salesman."
"The Golden Rule finds no limit of application in business."
"Relations of power "are indissociable from a discourse of truth, and they can neither be established nor function unless a true discourse is produced, accumulated, put into circulation, and set to work. Power cannot be exercised unless a certain economy of discourses of truth functions in, on the basis of, and thanks to, that power.""
"Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but in selection."
"There are two Americas - separate, unequal, and no longer even acknowledging each other except on the barest cultural terms. In the one nation, new millionaires are minted every day. In the other, human beings no longer necessary to our economy, to our society, are being devalued and destroyed."
