Gaufre Ricardo Quotes

I'm devoted to my family and my businesses. ~ Ricardo Salinas Pliego

Litmus test: If you can't describe Ricardo 's Law of Comparative Advantage and explain why people find it counterintuitive, you don't know enough about economics to direct any criticism or praise at " capitalism " because you don't know what other people are referring to when they use that word . ~ Eliezer Yudkowsky

Forget socialism, capitalism, just-in-time deliveries, salary surveys, and the rest ... concentrate on building organizations that accomplish that most difficult of all challenges: to make people look forward to coming to work in the morning. ~ Ricardo Semler

The best way to invest corporate profits is to give them to the employees. ~ Ricardo Semler

Each Failure is like a violent slap across the face with a lecture of waking up and once again striving from the very bottom with dedication, discipline and sacrifice. ~ Ricardo Rosales Contreras

In the name of justice the most savage and revolting acts are perpetrated. ~ Ricardo Flores Magon

Nothing contributes so much to the prosperity and happiness of a country as high profits. ~ David Ricardo

A high percentage of organisations develop a military rationale, whereby only a very small number of people make all of the decisions. There is little wonder, then, that people aren't keen to get out of bed and come to work on a Monday morning. ~ Ricardo Semler

Ricardo Semler wrote a most interesting book about an including business culture (1995). He describes a Brazilian company that manufactured customized pumps. ~ Charles J. Pellerin

The key to management is to get rid of the managers. ~ Ricardo Semler

For price is everywhere regulated by the return obtained by this last portion of capital, for which no rent whatever is paid. ~ David Ricardo

After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food would be required, and it could only be procured from land not so advantageously situated. ~ David Ricardo

I can also tell in whose hands I am. Do these hands tremble? There can be no doubt: these are the hands of a military officer. Is it a firm pulse? I say without vacillating: these are the hands of a liberator. ~ Ricardo Flores Magon

But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed. ~ David Ricardo

Condemned to exhaust the beauty
of its captivity, it slithers away
in opposite directions at once
as if to escape its venomous memories. ~ Ricardo M. De Ungria

Fidel is really a special case. He's a personality of history. ~ Ricardo Alarcon

Dominicans are in fact, Haitians by default.
Since the natives named the whole island named Haïti, stop being a dolt. ~ Ricardo Derose

The exchangeable value of all commodities, rises as the difficulties of their production increase. ~ David Ricardo

If you shake your fist, the other guy will shake his too. But if you extend your hand to shake their hand, then they will extend theirs also, and you've made a friend. ~ Ricardo Montalban

My experiences have taught me that things rarely improve with a simple change of scenery. ~ Pittacus Lore

I had come to expect that Chinese friends would make financial decisions that I found uncomfortably risky: launching businesses with their savings, moving across the country without the assurance of a job. One explanation, which Weber and Hsee call "the cushion hypothesis," is that traditionally large Chinese family networks afford people confidence that they can turn to others for help if their risk-taking does not succeed. Another theory is more specific to the boom years. "The economic reforms undertaken by Deng Xiaoping were a gamble in themselves," Ricardo Siu, a business professor at the University of Macau, told me. "So people got the idea that taking a risk is not just okay; it has utility." For those who have come from poverty to the middle class, he added, "the thinking may be, If I lose half my money, well, I've lived through that. I won't be poor again. And in several years I can earn it back. But if I win? I'm a millionaire! ~ Evan Osnos

If you are giving back, you took too much. ~ Ricardo Semler

Neither machines, nor the commodities made by them, rise in real value, but all commodities made by machines fall, and fall in proportion to their durability. ~ David Ricardo

I'm a street fighter. I'm ready for any kind of mixed martial arts that comes at me. ~ Ricardo Mayorga

Only two things grow for the sake of growth: businesses and tumors. ~ Ricardo Semler

It's imposible to even imagine Lucy Ricardo without Ethel Mertz, and because of that, this dynamic duo set the bar for future female friendships on TV. Consider Laverne and Shirley, Kate and Allie, Mar and Rhoda, Wilma and Betty, and Cagney and Lacey - where would they have been without Lucy and Ethel. ~ Elisabeth Edwards

Marina, as of the sea. You stick with Hector Ricardo. I'll take care of you;its in my name ~ Pittacus Lore

My daughter gets to paint my nails and put clips in my hair, and I love it. ~ Ricardo Antonio Chavira

Each member of the body is immersed in Christ and carries God's presence. So I can experience the expression of the invisible God in the lives of my brothers. I can be comforted by God through a brother, and I can serve God by serving a brother. As Christ's life flows through the members of His Body, we are linked to each other not only to receive grace directly from the lord but also through the lives of other brothers with whom we cultivate relationships in Christ. ~ Ricardo De Paula Meneghelli

The proposition of Mr. Ricardo, which states that a rise in the price of labour lowers the price of a large class of commodities, has undoubtedly a very paradoxical air; but it is, nevertheless, true, and the appearance of paradox would vanish, if it were stated more naturally and correctly. ~ Thomas Malthus

Ricardo Pinto's The Chosen strikes the reader with great force. ~ A.A. Attanasio

Utility then is not the measure of exchangeable value, although it is absolutely essential to it. ~ David Ricardo

So you fell out of the sky, too? the Little Prince asked the pilot who tells the story, and I thought yes, I'd fallen out of the sky, too, but there was no possible testimony of my fall, there was no black box that anybody could consult, nor was there any black box of Ricardo Laverde's fall, human lives don't have these technological luxuries to fall back on. ~ Juan Gabriel Vasquez

Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross. ~ Ricardo Lagos

In the rest of the world, rich people will give a donation, and businessmen give to charities. But in Mexico, the execution capacity of what we call the social sector is missing. I find it much more effective to set up the actual social organisation and then fund it with my money. ~ Ricardo Salinas Pliego

Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold ... has its natural and its market price. ~ David Ricardo

The key element of success is a product that matches all of what you've done in your message and your marketing, and all the emotion that has to be transmitted to the consumer through the product. ~ Ricardo Guadalupe

Mirror is the page / no one can turn. ~ Ricardo Pau-Llosa

The obligation of the state is to guarantee freedom of religion, and that implies dealing with all of them on an equal footing. ~ Ricardo Alarcon

If the quantity of labour realized in commodities, regulate their exchangeable value, every increase of the quantity of labour must augment the value of that commodity on which it is exercised, as every diminution must lower it. ~ David Ricardo

Light belongs to the heart and spirit. Light attracts people, it shows the way, and when we see it in the distance, we follow it. ~ Ricardo Legorreta

Chiapas has had its problems for many centuries. The different Indian tribes that live there have always fought among themselves. ~ Ricardo Salinas Pliego

Kids need activities and role models to stay out of trouble. ~ Ricardo Salinas Pliego

It's always better to be kind than right. ~ Ricardo Chevere

I express through my music my philosophy, my feelings, my passion, my dreams, my fears, my hopes, my wishes and my expectations. Without music, I would be mute, like a fish without water, like a bird without wings like a human being without air. ~ Ricardo Derose

The factors left out of the Ricardian equation are falling wages and idle capacity. ~ David Ricardo

The first responsibility of the state is to guarantee the safety of the people. ~ Ricardo Salinas Pliego