Edmund Phelps Quotes

To pump up consumer or government demand would force interest rates up and asset prices down, possibly by enough to destroy more jobs than are created.

Edmund Phelps

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Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.

Vaughn Monroe
- People
- Up
- Music
Greater self-esteem produces greater success, and greater success produces more high self-esteem, so it keeps on spiraling up.

Jack Canfield
- Up
- High
- Success
My concept of government's role in people's lives is that it is limited but legitimate, and essential when people have nowhere else to turn.

Olympia Snowe
- People
- Government
- Turn
Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so clear, I could see every star.

Abbie Cornish
- Up
- Remember
- Night
But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does.

Jack Nance
- Real
- Done
- Me
Today's kids aren't taking up arms against their parents; they're too busy texting them.

Nancy Gibbs
- Up
- Kids
- Today