Economic Benefit Quotes

Look, for example, at the obvious, immediate, practical example of illegal Mexican immigration. Now, that Mexican immigration, over the border, is a good thing. It's a good thing for the illegal immigrants. It's a good thing for the United States. It's a good thing for the citizens of the country. But, it's only good so long as its illegal....

War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.

Money is different from all other commodities: other things being equal, more shoes, or more discoveries of oil or copper benefit society, since they help alleviate natural scarcity. But once a commodity is established as a money on the market, no more money at all is needed. Since the only use of money is for exchange and reckoning, more dollars or pounds or marks in circulation cannot confer a social benefit: they will simply dilute the exchange value of every existing dollar or pound or mark.

When it's well managed, migration works in the national interest, for our communities, economy and country.

Mexican exports worldwide benefit the U.S. economy because of their high percentage of U. S. content.

Capital brings forth living offspring, or at the least, lays the golden eggs.

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

Workers who come to the U.S. see their wages and their standard of living boosted sharply simply by crossing the border. That's a good thing, and one of the best arguments for immigration reform, even if you'll rarely hear a politician make it.

In a polling conducted by the Wall Street Journal, 11 out of 12 Americans said they oppose the taking of private property, even if it is for public economic good.

A common and not necessarily apocryphal example portrays a solo practitioner starved for business in a small town. A second lawyer then arrives, and they both prosper.

If we give people the ability to buy a lot more because they can store a lot more, for a company that creates TV shows and movies, that's fantastic.

War has had a beneficial consequence for our industry.

Reducing poverty is in our own interest.

I believe that any society that allows the creation of legitimate wealth expects that the wealth be used for its benefit.

[The 1975 Chase Econometrics] showed that for every one dollar spent on Apollo, 14 came back into the U.S. economy.

Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.

Limitation of armaments in itself is economically and financially important quite apart from security.

Tourism is an export.

It's true that hydropower exploitation can bring economic development, but not necessarily to the benefit of local people.

The arts bridge cultures; they're good for the economy, and they're good for fostering empathy and decency.

My worldview says that competition is the consumer's best friend.

The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire.

The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.

I believe that we will benefit more by globalisation.