Quotes About Command Economy

#1. What counts is results, and there can be no doubt that the Soviet planning system has been a powerful engine for economic growth ... The Soviet model has surely demonstrated that a command economy is capable of mobilizing resources for rapid growth.

Paul Samuelson

#2. As much as I say that market economy is a more aggressive, expansile form of command economy, I say now that democracy is a more aggressive, expansile form of dictatorship. The sin of democracy and any types of -cracy is their numbers.

Andreas Laurencius

#3. Contrary to what many skeptics had earlier believed, the Soviet economy is proof that a socialist command economy can function and even thrive.

Paul Samuelson

#4. I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed. The economy is moving. Every seaman knows the command at such a moment: 'steady as she goes'.

James Callaghan

#5. Rarely has a collection of essays from a dozen scholars created a whole greater than the sum of its parts, but Capitalism Takes Command conveys with detail, coherence, and sophistication the changes in the American economy in the nineteenth century under the multiple imperatives of capitalism.

Joyce Appleby

#6. Willy: Remember those two beautiful elm trees out there? When I and Biff hung the swings between them?
Linda: Yeah, like being a million miles from the city.

Arthur Miller

#7. The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Edith Wharton

#8. I didn't know it was possible to conquer fear in your body before you did it in your mind. That was when I knew I should be wary of him.

Veronica Roth

#9. We burn so hard, but we shed so little light; it makes us crazy and sad.

Clive Barker

#10. When you play the games of thrones, you win or die. There is no middle ground.

George R R Martin

#11. While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting.

Jane Fonda

#12. I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.

Adam Driver

#13. Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything.

Mario Batali

#14. Good books makes good life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. Unity of command is essential to the economy of time. Warfare in the field was like a siege: by directing all one's force to a single point a breach might be made, and the equilibrium of opposition destroyed.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#16. You've got Washington picking winners and losers. And so, all of a sudden, decisions are being made on what helps politicians, not what helps the economy. Some will call it socialism. Some will call it a command and control economy. Whatever it is, it's antithetical to the American experience.

Jeb Hensarling

#17. In every problem there is a lesson to learn, an asset to acquire, a rest to restore, a bitterness to sweeten, a load to lighten or a price to pay.

Ikechukwu Joseph

#18. The unemployment rate among the young in the United States is still very disconcerting, although we all know it's nowhere near as bad as it is in some of the European countries, where in some places it approaches 50 percent.

Anna Quindlen

#19. We do not know until the shell breaks what kind of egg we have been sitting on.

T. S. Eliot

#20. Of such divine neglect was atheism made; belief could not be rekindled now, however profound his terror. Thoughts

Clive Barker