economic reciprocity Quotes

We think we do so much for the poor, but it is they who make us rich

Money is the harvest of our production and service. We in turn use it to obtain the production and service of others.

As I get older I find that the friendships that are the most certain, ultimately, are the ones where you and the other person have made substantial amounts of money for one another.

I love a reciprocal tax. Nobody can fight it, it's fair and it's something that we are working on very strongly.

We want to have trade agreements that give us a level playing field, get other countries to respect the rule of law, intellectual property rights, lower their taxes to our barriers, that's good for us, and that is something that I do believe that President [Donald] Trump agrees with.

Sharing money is what gives it its value.

We might think of dollars as being 'certificates of performance.' The better I serve my fellow man, and the higher the value he places on that service, the more certificates of performance he gives me. The more certificates I earn, the greater my claim on the goods my fellow man produces. That's the morality of the market. In order for one to have a claim on what his fellow man produces, he must first serve him.

People are the custodians of the world's wealth; if you want them to hand some over to you, you have to be nice to people!

The rich man, when contributing to a permanent plan for the education of the poor, ought to reflect that he is providing for that of his own descendants; and the poor man who concurs in a provision for those who are not poor that at no distant day it may be enjoyed by descendants from himself. It does not require a long life to witness these vicissitudes of fortune.

We are willing to open markets and cut our subsidies if others will, but we won’t do it alone.

What nature wants, commodious gold bestows; 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.

The commerce of a free people is many times more valuable than that of slaves. Freemen produce and consume vastly more than slaves. They have therefore more to buy and more to sell. Hence the free states have a direct pecuniary interest in the civil freedom of all the other states. Commerce between free and slave states is not reciprocal or equal.

It's vital that communities actually get something back in return for seeing their area developed.