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Edmund Phelps Quotes

Everybody feels better about himself, his community, and his country if employers are paying workers well. Economics, though, teaches that if every employer is pressured to raise wages, some labor will be priced out of the market.

Edmund Phelps

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: american
Birth: July 26, 1933

Topics

Community Economics Better Labor Out

No one goes into standup to make money. The frustration and rejection are just too much.

Jim Gaffigan

Money Frustration Rejection Too Much

I'm turned off by the groupie thing. I'm a romantic; I like finding the right woman, and if it works, it works.

Joe Perry

Romantic Woman Finding Right Off

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

John Burroughs

Work Love Patience Service Gold Pay

When we worked on 'Girls,' we've had some really meaningful dialogue with our fans and with critics and really learned a lot of things. Like, on the question of diversity, we heard people, and we responded, which is very different from, like, 'Hey fatty, what are you doing on TV?' And that's what we're trying to avoid.

Jennifer Konner

Diversity People Doing Trying You

Justices are not politicians. They don't run on a political platform, and senators should not ask them to do so.

John Cornyn

Political Run Ask Politicians Should

If you look at old football pictures, the jerseys were hanging, the sleeves were dangling, but now everything is tucked and tailored.

Andre Benjamin

Football You Look Pictures Now Old

What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

Robert Graves

Love Finance Warm Intellectual Now

Control is what gives you privacy.

Michael Douglas

Control You Privacy Gives

We're more effective than birth control pills.

Johnny Carson

Control More Birth Birth Control

The healthcare industry has never had a priority on user experience because there has been little competition. Prices have never been transparent.

John Sculley

Experience Competition Healthcare

Ironically, if only because over the years I've known so many - from college deans to studio executives to European expats - who come to Los Angeles aspiring to nothing other than living in Topanga, I wound up there by accident.

Steve Erickson

College Los Angeles Living Nothing

One of the most important branches of the Egyptian economy is tourism. No bikinis, no tourism. So they have to decide what to do.

Shimon Peres

Important Economy Decide Tourism