Quotes About Competitive Markets

#1. That effort to undermine competitive markets is no better in the market for labor than it is for goods and services.

Richard A. Epstein

#2. Capitalism's biggest political enemies are not the firebrand trade unionists spewing vitriol against the system but the executives in pin-striped suits extolling the virtues of competitive markets with every breath while attempting to extinguish them with every action,

Raghuram Rajan

#3. We use competitive markets to arrange for delivery of our food supply.

Kenneth Lay

#4. 'Perfect competition' is considered both the ideal and the default state in Economics 101. So-called perfectly competitive markets achieve equilibrium when producer supply meets consumer demand.

Peter Thiel

#5. U.K. companies are in very international and very competitive markets. If you look at PC penetration in the U.K., it is very similar to the United States market.

Bill Gates

#6. These are the now-endangered markers of a civilized society: legally ordained minimum wages, child labor laws, workers safety and compensation laws, pure foods and safe drugs, Social Security, Medicare and rules that promote competitive markets over monopolies and cartels.

Bill Moyers

#7. Chinese ... companies do not have to think about whether they do something to enhance their competitive edge in international markets.

Li Shufu

#8. You have to have great design to be competitive in today's markets.

John Doerr

#9. I find trying to solve problems and save lives is far more important than my film career.

Nicole Kidman

#10. The only ugliness is that of the heart, seen through the face. And though beauty be obvious, the only loveliness is invisible.

Herman Melville

#11. India is the most competitive manufacturing destination on this planet. If we are able to take advantage of that competitiveness for our domestic markets, this country would be humming with activity; industrial production will grow at 10-11% per year.

Baba Kalyani

#12. If the Federal Reserve pursues a strong dollar at home while the dollar becomes more competitive in global markets, we can achieve both price stability and a more balanced path of economic growth.

Martin Feldstein

#13. First, we have to lower our costs to levels that are more competitive. This will prevent the lower-cost airlines from pushing us out of the markets we want to serve. We've made great progress on this front, but we need to keep pushing.

Gerard Arpey

#14. There are a lot of bad screenplays so if you write a good screenplay people are going to respond to it.

Quentin Tarantino

#15. Life is too short to dust every week.

Mary Engelbreit

#16. No growth hack, brilliant marketing idea, or sales team can save you long term if you don't have a sufficiently good product.

Sam Altman

#17. I was going to have to tell people I got fired from selling dildos. I can't even sell fake cocks to a room full or horny women. How do you come back from that shit?

Tara Sivec

#18. The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change.

Malcolm X

#19. I read a lot of history, biographies, science, and novels,' he says, ushering a reporter out the door with a hint of relief. 'I do not read management or economics.'
(from an interview in the Christian Science Monitor, July 26, 1993)

Peter F. Drucker

#20. I'm tired of your revenge, your anger, your hate. The war is killing you.

Sally Green

#21. The burly woodsman who attaks the diminutive pine of the east must experience remorse, as would a strong man who made war upon a boy, but [the Redwood] is something to compel his respect; he must feel that in grappling with these monsters he is doing the work of a Hercules.

Jared Farmer

#22. I think the common elements first are that, basically, we are entering markets or in markets that are deregulating or have recently deregulated, and so they have become competitive, moving from monopoly franchise-type businesses to competitive, market-oriented businesses.

Bill Vaughan