Market Quotes
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The more guidance a central bank can provide the public about how policy is likely to evolve the greater the chance that market participants will make appropriate inferences.
Ben Bernanke -
In the Treatise we are shown the bond-market as it exists in real life: a speculative market where a price, with an identity and a momentary stability, can only exist if there are two camps of dealers holding opposite views of the impending movement of bond prices.
G. L. S. Shackle
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The market, if it can be kept honest and competitive, does provide very strong incentives for work effort and productive contributions. In their absence, society would thrash about for alternative incentives-some unreliable, like altruism; some perilous like collective loyalty; some intolerable, like coercion or oppression.
Arthur Melvin Okun -
People continue to deploy the same justification of market society—that it would secure the personal independence of workers from arbitrary authority—long after it failed to deliver on its original aspiration. The result is a kind of political hemiagnosia: like those patients who cannot perceive one-half of their bodies, a large class of libertarian-leaning thinkers and politicians, with considerable public following, cannot perceive half of the economy: they cannot perceive the half that takes place beyond the market, after the employment contract is accepted.
Elizabeth S. Anderson -
There was nothing natural about laissez-faire; free markets could never have come into being merely by allowing things to take their course. Just as cotton manufactures were created by the help of protective tariffs, export bounties, and indirect wage subsidies, laissez-faire was enforced by the state.
Karl Polanyi -
The market rebounded very strongly at the end of the year, and it was a liquidity-driven rally, ... We can't count on the Fed to inject this level of liquidity that we saw last year.
Robert Pozen -
The Cisco announcement that their revenue might slow due to shortage of parts meant, therefore, Nortel was down because it's competing in the same market. I think that was the big negative.
Kate Warne -
I'm in what feels like a pretty transparent fishbowl as mayor. People see you at the market, people see you at the diner, people see you wherever you are, talk to you. You don't shave, they're taking selfies of you. You come back from your jog, they're talking to you.
Eric Garcetti
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We could take these products off the market tomorrow, we don't need the applications.
Scott Gottlieb -
The market ... demands a signal from you that you're serious, powerful, accepted, and safe.
Seth Godin -
Junk stands and antique markets are the perfect place to pick up clues about the history of a country, region or town.
Judith Miller -
I think DVD has been a real gold mine for a lot of reasons. You were selling a packaged good in a big mass market, so you could make it huge. You were selling or renting a thing that people didn't consume. You go to Blockbuster, rent five movies, and only watch two. That's a good business to be in.
Michael Lynton -
We're still in the early stages (of recovery). The market is still suffering from excess capacity on the North Atlantic.
Chris Avery -
I don't want the technology of the 1950s, but I want the free market of the 1950s.
Peter Schiff
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The technical explanation is that the market-sensitive risk models used by thousands of market participants work on the assumption that each user is the only person using them.
Avinash Persaud -
I got about 6037 songs I wrote myself and I'm trying to get them on the market and I just wish people could hear them and stuff but they'll do pretty good.
Hasil Adkins -
Climate change is a result of the greatest market failure the world has seen...We risk damages on a scale larger than the two world wars of the last century.
Nicholas Herbert Stern -
During that (November) period the U.S. assets market was performing quite strongly. But I think in the coming months we are going to see some softness in that data as well.
Ian Stannard -
Until the L.A. market is settled, I don't think there's any other market out there that stands a chance.
Andrew Zimbalist -
The market does not drive the scientists, the communicators, the thinkers, the government to do the right things.
Bill Gates
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The market does not know you exist. You can do nothing to influence it. You can only control your behavior.
Alexander Elder -
I never pay any attention. I'm sure it's not such a good way to be, but I don't really follow market research.
Anna Wintour -
I don't have any [specific] intelligence about a Vice-Disney deal, but I do know that everybody's nervous about these emerging players, who can come in and have enough attractive, original content to take market share.
Maria Bartiromo -
It's always a struggle with small films to get people in the theater. I think I have a perverse contrarian streak that's always kind of aspired to make movies that are impossible to market.
Andrew Bujalski