Surpluses Quotes

#1. Back in those days, in the fifties and sixties, countries had balance of payment's deficits or surpluses, those were reflected much more than today in movements of reserves among countries.

Robert C. Solomon

#2. The rich get richer. Not only because they have surpluses with which to invest, but because of the overriding emotional release they experience from having wealth.

Stuart Wilde

#3. Managing university finances is very tricky business. We're nonprofits. We're not supposed to accumulate large surpluses.

Richard Levin

#4. Soaring prices for crude oil, falling production surpluses, wild speculation in commodities, a rush into the precious metals, turmoil in the Middle East, assertive oil producers: it is 1973-74 all over again, and at dictation speed.

James Buchan

#5. Governments enjoying surpluses have a very strong temptation to splash money around, and while tax cuts are always appealing, cutting taxes at the top of a boom runs the real risk of creating a structural deficit when the boom subsides.

Malcolm Turnbull

#6. When George Bush came into office, we had surpluses. And now we have half-a-trillion-dollar deficit annually. When George Bush came into office, our national debt was around $5 trillion. It's now over $10 trillion. We've almost doubled it.

Barack Obama

#7. It takes four months to ship food aid and 40 percent of the cost is in the shipping. People cannot eat shipping costs. We have had people die when there are surpluses in the markets.

Andrew Natsios

#8. President Clinton was able to achieve budget surpluses despite a divided government.

Jim Cooper

#9. For one thing, one of the wonderful things that we now have is instead of the huge budget surpluses that President Clinton left us with, we now have these huge deficits that we're going to be facing into the future.

Geraldine Ferraro

#10. To achieve a more balanced international system over time, countries with excessive and unsustainable trade surpluses will need to allow their exchange rates to better reflect market fundamentals.

Ben Bernanke

#11. I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.

Alan Greenspan

#12. Today in the United States, only 2 per cent of the population makes a living from agriculture, yet this 2 per cent produces enough not only to feed the entire US population, but also to export surpluses to the rest of the world.9

Yuval Noah Harari

#13. What private property does is connect effort to reward, creating an incentive for people to produce for more. Then, if there's a free market, people will trade their surpluses to others for the things they lack. Mutual exchange for mutual benefit makes the community richer.

John Stossel

#14. But if they want to really think about the fiscal future of this country, then think about how we have moved from hundreds of billions of surpluses to hundreds of billions of deficits.

Chaka Fattah

#15. Those who are fascinated by evil all too easily fall pray to it themselves [said the old priest at the Mission Dolores].

Dianne Day

#16. It is a common remark that men talk most who think least; just as frogs cease their quacking when a light is brought to the water-side.

Charles Francis Richter

#17. His body jerks twice as the bullets hit him. I scream, but no sound leaves my mouth. I'm frozen in pure terror.

Sarah Hunter Hyatt

#18. Indiana is a state dedicated to basketball. Basketball, soybeans, hogs and basketball. Berkeley, needless to say, is not nearly as athletic. Berkeley is dedicated to coffee, angst, potholes and coffee.

Carolyn Jones

#19. He sailed through American history like a steel ship loaded with monoliths of granite.

H.L. Mencken

#20. The London property market has excellent investment opportunities.

Wang Jianlin

#21. She said yes three times, you treacle-brained idiot. Now can we get the hell out of this unsavory corner of London before we're all murdered? I have ledgers to tally.

Nicola Davidson

#22. The moment you function in the world without being concerned about what is happening to life around you, you are a Criminal.

Jaggi Vasudev

#23. The punishment of evil doers consists in making them feel ashamed of themselves by doing them a great kindness.

Mahatma Gandhi

#24. I think part of the problem sometimes is that there's so much happening in my books, to whittle it down into a single script is hard.

Sarah Dessen

#25. As accurate as a blind man pissing during an earthquake."
"Wow ... ," I breathed.
She frowned at me.
"That was a great metaphor," I said.
"Oh please."
"I need to write that down," I said, ignoring her complaints, fishing for my new mobile to type it out.

Brandon Sanderson

#26. I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.

Brian Eno