Marketplace Quotes
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The post-war period has not been marked bya great aesthetic debate about the novel comparable to that of the earlier half of the century, in part because the role of the writer and critic divided, the writer going off to the marketplace and the critic to the university (which eventually turned out to be much the same thing).
— 1993 The Modern British Novel, preface.
There is, however, one car company that has never lost sight of its role in the marketplace. Rolls-Royce. Sir Henry Royce, who founded the company back in 1904, really was a one-man quote machine. "Strive for perfection in everything you do." "Accept nothing as nearly right or good enough." "The quality remains long after the price is forgotten." "Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it."
jeremy clarkson— Rolls-Royce, p. 19
If [Apple] is smart it will call the iPhone a "reference design" and pass it to some suckers to build with someone else's marketing budget. Then it can wash its hands of any marketplace failures. It should do that immediately before it's too late.
john c. dvorak— "Apple should pull the plug on the iPhone" in MarketWatch (28 March 2007)
Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the marketplace, thus demanding that men survive by means of virtue, not vices. It is this superlatively moral system that the welfare statists propose to improve upon by means of preventative law, snooping bureaucrats, and the chronic goad of fear.
Alan Greenspan— "The Assault on Integrity", 1963
He stood, and heard the steepleSprinkle the quarters on the morning town.One, two, three, four, to market-place and peopleIt tossed them down.Strapped, noosed, nighing his hour,He stood and counted them and cursed his luck;And then the clock collected in the towerIts strength, and struck.
a. e. housman— No. 15 ("Eight O'Clock").
Faith exalts the human heart, by removing it from the market-place, making it sacred and unexchangeable. Under the jurisdiction of religion our deeper feelings are sacralized, so as to become raw material for the ethical life: the life lived in judgement.
roger scruton— "Avant-garde and Kitsch" (p. 91)
I started out by viewing the marketplace as a cruel place, where you need intervention by government and lawyers to protect people. But after watching the regulators work, I have come to believe that markets are magical and the best protectors of the consumer. It is my job to explain the beauties of the free market.
john stossel— The Oregonian, 26 October 1994
A huge parasite in the marketplace, feeding and fattening itself off of local television stations and copyright owners of copyrighted material. We do not like it because we think it wrong and unfair.
jack valenti— Comments on the Cable television industry, in testimony to Congress (June 1974); quoted in "What Jack Valenti Did for Hollywood" by Richard Corliss in TIME magazine (27 April 2007)
It is easier to hide behind philosophical arguments, heavily footnoted for effect, than it is to admit our hurts, our confusions, our loves, and our passions in the marketplace of life's heartfelt transactions.
ravi zacharias— Can Man Live Without God. 1994. p. 6. ISBN 9780849939433.
The Web is the ultimate marketplace of ideas, governed by the laws of big numbers.
chris anderson— Ch. 5, p. 70
We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place. Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.…Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this, culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, "And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?"
Alan Bennett— Diary entry for July 25, 1985, p. 144
Socrates, on being insulted in the marketplace, asked by a passerby, “Don’t you worry about being called names?” retorted, “Why? Do you think I should resent it if an ass had kicked me?”
Alain de Botton— p. 112 (Status Anxiety (2004))
He was breakfasting in the marketplace, and the bystanders gathered round him with cries of " dog ." "It is you who are dogs," cried he, "when you stand round and watch me at my breakfast."
Diogenes of Sinope— Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 61
If all hearts were open and all desires known as they would be if people showed their souls how many gapings, sighings, clenched fists, knotted brows, broad grins, and red eyes should we see in the market-place!
thomas hardy— Diary entry (1908-08-18), quoted in Florence Emily Hardy, The Later Years of Thomas Hardy (Macmillan, 1930), ch. 10, p. 133.
What land is this? Yon pretty town Is Delft, with all its wares displayed: The pride, the market-place, the crown And centre of the Potter's trade.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— Kéramos, line 66; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 187
Adam Smith’s image of competition in the marketplace was intended as an adjunct to his detailed description of human motivation in The Theory of Moral Sentiments , in which the pursuit of profit is tempered at every juncture by sympathy and benevolence, and by the posture of the “impartial spectator” which is forced on us by our moral nature.
ted malloch— p. 108 (Doing Virtuous Business (Thomas Nelson, 2011))
Obamacare is a marketplace in the same way the Knockout Game is a game.
ilana mercer— “Desperately Needed: Dose of Kim Jong-un Justice”, WorldNetDaily.com, February 13, 2014
Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things. It is the continuous revolution of the marketplace. It is the understanding that allows to recognize shortcomings and seek solutions.
ronald reagan— Moscow State University (31 May 1988)
Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Fortunately, reality has no advertising budget.
daniel suarez— Chapter 2: Operation Exorcist, Character: a principal from the lobbying firm Byers, Carroll, and Marquist (BCM)
The disappearance of the heroic ideal is always accompanied by the growth of commercialism. There is a cause-and-effect relationship here, for the man of commerce is by the nature of things a relativist; his mind is constantly on the fluctuating values of the marketplace, and there is no surer way to fail than to dogmatize and moralize about things.
richard weaver— p. 32 (Ideas have Consequences (1948))
A Christian! going, gone! Who bids for God's own image? for his grace, Which that poor victim of the market-place Hath in her suffering won?
john greenleaf whittier— John Greenleaf Whittier, Voices of Freedom, The Christian Slave
Formed on the good old plan, A true and brave and downright honest man! He blew no trumpet in the market-place, Nor in the church with hypocritic face Supplied with cant the lack of Christian grace; Loathing pretence, he did with cheerful will What others talked of while their hands were still.
john greenleaf whittier— John Greenleaf Whittier, Daniel Neall, II.
What land is this? Yon pretty town Is Delft, with all its wares displayed: The pride, the market-place, the crown And centre of the Potter's trade.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kéramos, line 66; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 187.
The collapse of the global marketplace would be a traumatic event with unimaginable consequences. Yet I find it easier to imagine than the continuation of the present regime.
— George Soros in Soros on Soros : Staying Ahead of the Curve (1995), p. 194
Obamacare is a marketplace in the same way the Knockout Game is a game.
— “Desperately Needed: Dose of Kim Jong-un Justice”, WorldNetDaily.com, February 13, 2014
In a system where ninety percent or more of cases end in a negotiated disposition, it is unclear why the "discounted" punishment imposed in that ninety percent of cases should not rather be considered the norm. Where almost no one pays the "manufacturer's suggested retail price," and almost everyone buys the item at a "discounted" price, no one really gets a "bargain," and the product's real price is what is actually charged in the marketplace.
— Gerard E. Lynch (9 July 2003), Screening versus Plea Bargaining: Exactly What Are We Trading Off?, 55, Stanford Law Review
The market-place, the eager love of gain, Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Morituri Salutamus (1875), St. 23.
He was breakfasting in the marketplace, and the bystanders gathered round him with cries of " dog ." "It is you who are dogs," cried he, "when you stand round and watch me at my breakfast."
— Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 61
As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race, I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market-Place. Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.
rudyard kipling— The Gods of the Copybook Headings, Stanza 1 (1919).
