Ricardo Reis Quotes

He possesses the minimum sensibility necessary for his intelligence not to be merely mathematical, the minimum a human being needs so that it can be proven with a thermometer that he's not dead. ~ Alvaro De Campos

The only difference between life and death is that the living still have time, but the time to say that one word, to make that one gesture, is running out for them. What gesture, what word, I don't know, a man dies from not having said it, from not having made it, this is what he dies of, not from sickness, and that is why, when dead, he finds it so difficult to accept death. (Jose Saramago, The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis, p 122) ~ Jose Saramago

Wise is the man who contents himself with the spectacle of the world. ~ Ricardo Reis

Tobacco Shop') and compares his thinking to 'an overturned bucket' (in a poem dated 16 August 1934). If Soares thinks that 'Nothing is more oppressive than the affection of others' (Text 348), a Ricardo Reis ode (dated 1 November 1930) maintains that 'The same love by which we're loved/Oppresses us with its wanting. ~ Fernando Pessoa

Experience, however, shows that neither a state nor a bank ever have [sic] had the unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power; in all states, therefore, the issue of paper money ought to be under some check and control; and none seems so proper for that purpose as that of subjecting the issuers of paper money to the obligation of paying their notes either in gold coin or bullion. ~ David Ricardo

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

I regret that I do not have the dignity of Ricardo Montalban, the class of Dean Martin, or the humor of Bill Cosby. I DO have the heart of a lion. ~ Burt Reynolds

Profits might also increase, because improvements might take place in agriculture, or in the implements of husbandry, which would augment the produce with the same cost of production. ~ David Ricardo

In times of crisis, cash is king. ~ Ricardo Salinas Pliego

Early economic theory was rooted in the Italian, French, and Spanish traditions, which were subjectivist oriented. Then it shifted onto the terrible path by Smith and Ricardo and the British classical tradition, which is 'objectivist' - values are in inherent in production. ~ Murray Rothbard

What counts is not the data, but the mind that deals with
them. The data that Galileo, Newton, Ricardo, Menger, and
Freud made use of for their great discoveries lay at the disposal
of every one of their contemporaries and of untold previous
generations. Galileo was certainly not the first to observe the
swinging motion of the chandelier in the cathedral at Pisa. ~ Ludwig Von Mises

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

People are responsible adults at home. Why do we suddenly transform them into adolescents with no freedom when they reach the workplace? ~ Ricardo Semler

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

Chemistry is the dirty part of physics. ~ Johann Philipp Reis

The wheat bought by a farmer to sow is comparatively a fixed capital to the wheat purchased by a baker to make into loaves. ~ David Ricardo

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

Love is the first feeling we felt since birth and the last thing will need in Death. ~ Ricardo Luis Ivan I Geronimo

History has demonstrated that efforts to censure and control communication will not succeed. ~ Ricardo Salinas Pliego

No extension of foreign trade will immediately increase the amount of value in a country, although it will very powerfully contribute to increase the mass of commodities and therefore the sum of enjoyments. ~ David Ricardo

We have absolute trust in our employees. In fact, we are partners with them. ~ Ricardo Semler

This is not the Chile we want to build. ~ Ricardo Lagos

There's a lot of bad information about TV Azteca in the market, but that's always an opportunity for smart and savvy investors. ~ Ricardo Salinas Pliego

I don't go to a lot of parties or do a lot of going out within, like, the Hollywood circle or celebrity-type circles and things like that. ~ Ricardo Antonio Chavira

Loving you is the best of the worst that's ever happened to me. ~ Ricardo Arjona

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

At a certain point, you cannot handle everything yourself; having a team around you is very important. To have a strong team of people in which you can rely and people that you've been working with for years. I relate it to soccer - you have different positions and you have to bring in the right person at the right position. ~ Ricardo Guadalupe

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

There are companies which are prepared to change the way they work. They realize that nothing can be based on what used to be, that there is a better way. But, 99 percent of companies are not ready, [they are] caught in an industrial Jurassic Park. ~ 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

During the period of capital moving from one employment to another, the profits on that to which capital is flowing will be relatively high, but will continue so no longer than till the requisite capital is obtained. ~ David Ricardo

We need to be more careful, but more compassionate. We must strike, not deal with terrorists, but to broaden our understanding of the world outside our borders. ~ Ricardo Lagos

Gold and silver are no doubt subject to fluctuations, from the discovery of new and more abundant mines; but such discoveries are rare, and their effects, though powerful, are limited to periods of comparatively short duration. ~ David Ricardo

Ricardo Montalban is to improvisational acting what Mount Rushmore is to animation. ~ John Cassavetes