#market

There is no doubt that, since 1977 and the launch of Apple II - the first computer it produced for the mass market - many things which used to be done on paper, or on the telephone, have been done easier and faster on a screen. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#apple ii #been #computer #done #doubt

President Obama said it best during his state of the Union Address this year when he declared: 'I will go anywhere in the world to open new markets for American products. And I will not stand by when our competitors don't play by the rules.' ↗

— Ron Wyden

#american #anywhere #best #competitors #declared

I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy. ↗

— Sam Wyly

#came #college #debated #free #free markets

If a war started, the oil price probably would go up, as you said, maybe $5, $6 a barrel until you saw other oil from the extra supplies that are available elsewhere coming into the world, into the market. ↗

— Daniel Yergin

#barrel #coming #elsewhere #extra #go

The other are the strategic, so-called strategic stocks that the United States and the other Western industrial countries have, which could put in as much as four million barrels a day of oil into the market pretty quickly. ↗

— Daniel Yergin

#could #countries #day #four #industrial

Every single thing I learned about marketing and building my business, I learned from my mom, and she had never been in the workforce. She just had great practical sense. ↗

— Barbara Corcoran

#been #building #business #every #great

I did everything in my power to give my brokers brand identity and clout in the market. I saw my job as parent to build them up and if I took care of them, then they would take care of their customer. ↗

— Barbara Corcoran

#brokers #build #care #clout #customer

The unions still have a job to do, representing their members' interests to governments and parliaments. And I think collective agreements still have a role, alongside markets and laws. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#alongside #collective #governments #i #i think

I hate the way market forces try to separate us out in to the appropriate demographic - basically in order to sell us things. We need to find stories that we can enjoy together, not separately. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#basically #demographic #enjoy #find #forces

In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...' ↗

— Brian Eno

#against #anyone #because #century #child