Benjamin Graham Quotes

The Canadian economy relies on foreign trade. Nearly three-quarters of Canada's exports go south.

Economic freedom is a highly desirable state -- but in bust and boom we must be prepared to face the its consequences.

The farmers in America who are raising wheat and beef and cotton, and the great multitudes engaged in manufacture, depend for the rewards of their labor largely upon the orderly continuance of purchase, consumption and payment by the people of other countries. It would be a real misfortune to the American breakfast table if Brazil ceased to produce coffee and Cuba ceased to produce sugar and China ceased to produce tea.

[Foreign] Trade is necessary to modern comfort and prosperity.

We have at last awakened to the realization that foreign and domestic trade are not in separate water-tight compartments--that they flow through the same pipes and seek a common level. We cannot live by ourselves, shut off from the balance of the world, without working harm to our economic system that would require many years for repair.

We are only 5 percent of the world's population and 20 percent of the world's economy. We have to be able to trade in order to grow.

Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that.

Afghanistan is moving to really becoming an export-oriented country.

A manufacturing nation is, in every sense of the word, dependent on others. Look to England! Cut off from the markets of the world, misery and ruin await her.

Whether we vote to leave or remain, there are risks to our future; there are challenges in the global economy.

An all-out trade war with China would be damaging to Disney's business and to business in general. It's something I think we have to be very careful about.

At some point, there will be some other financial crisis. It's in the nature of a capitalist system.

I want to go get trade agreements because if America walls itself up, if we address sort of an economic fortress America, we will lose.

People tend to think about trade as if it's competition between companies - if Apple wins, Google loses. But that's false. Trade makes nations better off in general. Now, I want to be clear. I'm not saying that everything about trade is good and beneficial. Trade also has costs.

Protectionism has never been an answer, will never be an answer. We need trade. We need trade agreements worldwide.

You look at the U.S. budget deficit, and you cannot help but feel that this is a serious accident waiting to happen. And not just a serious U.S. accident, but a serious global accident.

If the two largest economies in the world don't show us a good example on trade liberalization, then you can't expect the smaller and weaker economies to take the risks. The initiative, the momentum and the drive really do have to come from Japan and the U.S.

While U.S. investments in India are growing, we also need Indian investments in America.

Nationalism makes us poor because its Siamese twin, protectionism, will destroy the internal market and disrupt international trade.

We are in favor of free trade.

When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done

Chile is a country that sells cheap and buys expensive, because we have to pay for manufactured goods from countries at much higher levels of development.

Speculation in land may be necessary to capitalism, but speculative orgies periodically become a quagmire of destruction for capital itself.

You can buy almost anything anyplace in the world. You can get it delivered in 24 hours. You can pay for it on credit or just by swiping something. So, I don't know that the world is worse off, in that context, than before.

We are in a big, fat, ugly bubble. And we better be awfully careful.