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While many futurists and business leaders believe that robots and automation are taking jobs from humans, I believe that it's the humans who are takin the jobs away from robots.

Who needs theory when you have so much information? But this is categorically the wrong attitude to take toward forecasting, especially in a field like economics where the data is so noisy.

Why do we need so many people on Earth? I ask you. What are they good for? They live out ludicrous lives of pointless desperation. Ninety-nine percent of the human population is so much wasted resources. Stubborn vermin, we humans are. Granted, in the past, the unwashed masses were necessary. We needed them to till our fields and fight our wars. We needed them to labor in our factories making consumer crap that we flipped back at them at a handsome profit. Alas, those days are gone. We live in a boutique economy now. Energy is abundant and cheap. Mentars and robotic labor make and manage everything. So who needs people? People are so much dead white. They eat up our profits. They produce nothing but pollution and social unrest. They drive us crazy with their pissing and moaning. I think we can all agree that Corporation Earth is in need of a serious downsizing. ... The boutique economy has no need of the masses, so let's get rid of them. But how, you ask? Not with wars, surely, or disease, famine, or mass murder. Despots have tried all these methods through the millennia, and they're never a permanent solution. No, all we need to do is buy up the ground from under their feet -- and evict them. We're buying up the planet, Bishop, fair and square. We're turning it into the most exclusive gated community in history. Now, the question is, in two hundred years, will you be a member of the landowners club, or will you be living in some tin can in outer space drinking recycled piss?

Why people take drugs baffles me to no end. Especially when they can't afford them.

Without exception all political parties promise their supporters a higher real income. There is no difference in this respect between nationalists and internationalists and between the supporters of a market economy and the advocates of either socialism or interventionism. If a party asks its supporters to make sacrifices for its cause, it always explains these sacrifices as the necessary temporary means for the attainment of the ultimate goal, the improvement of the material well-being of its members. Each party considers it as an insidious plot against its prestige and its survival if somebody ventures to question the capacity of its projects to make the group members more prosperous. Each party regards with a deadly hatred the economists embarking upon such a critique.

Writers are writing in every corner of the globe. Writers are writing, moreover, in rich countries and poor countries alike.

Your traditional EDUCATION is not going to CHANGE your life but the life you are experiencing that can change you. Choose a POSITIVE life STYLE with positive ATTITUDE which could bring you a life with HAPPINESS and WISDOM

Your talent is any capability which creates economic value for an organization’s customer or shareholder.

Your VISION and your self-willingness is the MOST powerful elements to conquer your goal

Your every positive action in your life will increase your self-esteem and this self-esteem will boost you for more positive action to take you on success

Your money myth affects your gain and luck. In economics, illusion of money affects wealth.

A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.

A commercial civilization is money-oriented, profit-oriented. Commercial values always tend to wrench a society free of tradition.Economics from education to public service is being reorganized on the self-destructive basis of self-interest.

You will miss a normal life while living a successful life, but not as much as the craving for a successful life while you were living a normal life.

According to the Institute for International Economics, trade barriers cost American consumers $80 billion a year or more than $1,200 per family.

...a discontinuity, like a vacuum, is abhorred by nature.

After getting the first hundred pounds, it is more easy to get the second.

After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics.

All stakeholders must participate in the gains and losses of any particular situation.

All public resources go to the rich. The poor, if they can survive in the labor market, fine. Otherwise, they die. That's economics in a nutshell.

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of others.

Always history is being made; opinions attitudes and institutions change, and there is evolution in the nature of capitalism

A loving and fierce defense of economics as a science.

A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country.

An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.

Among the social sciences, economists are the snobs. Economics, with its numbers and graphs and curves, at least has the coloration and paraphernalia of a hard science. It's not just putting on sandals and trekking out to take notes on some tribe.

A nation is not made wealthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of it's people.

An emerging market is a country where politics matters at least as much as economics to the market.

A 'mixed economy' is a society in the process of committing suicide.

An industrial system predicated on the delusion of limitless expansion will, in time, consume its own basis of support.

Any man who is only an economist is unlikely to be a good one.

Any system of economics is bankrupt if it sees either value or virtue in unemployment.

Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished.

Arbitrage proof has since been widely used throughout finance and economics.

A product which is unceremoniously wasted to landfill at end of life surely can't be considered good design!

As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there

A stable 21st century society requires 21st century solutions not 20th century economics

As the feminist saying goes, 'Women deliver.' In other words, when women control resources, the social gain is greater than when men control resources.

As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific.

As a scholarly discipline, economics has always suffered from physics envy.

Balancing your budget is like protecting your virtue. You have to learn when to say no.

Bad times are indelible. They stay with you forever.

Bankruptcy and repudiation are the springboards from which much of our civilization vaults and turns its somersets, but the savagestands on the unelastic plank of famine.

Before economics can progress, it must abandon its suicidal formalism.

By elevating the dictum of the market to the role of the sole criterion of rationality and efficiency, economics denies even all "respectability" to the distinction between essential and non-essential consumption, between productive and unproductive labor, between actual and potential surplus.

Behavioral economics can explain some things, but it's hard to explain a lot of the underlying processes that generate these decisions, much less some of these unconscious things that we don't have a handle on at all.

Bin Laden comes out of a business background - he studied public administration and economics at university, and he worked for his family company, which was obviously a rather successful enterprise.

Brezhnev wasn't a minus for the history of our country, he was a huge plus, He laid a foundation for the country's economics and agriculture.

But what I really believe is education is a key to pretty much everything - prosperity, economics, peace, stability.

Conservatism must be based on allowing everyone to become an owner - equity for everyman.