Friedrich List famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exists between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the one can never develop to its fullest without the other.
-- Friedrich List

#Economics #Transportation
It is bad policy to regulate everything... where things may better regulate themselves and can be better promoted by private exertions; but it is no less bad policy to let those things alone which can only be promoted by interfering social power.
-- Friedrich List

#May #Finance #Social
The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion.
-- Friedrich List

#Agriculture #Growth #Increase
Industry entirely left to itself, would soon fall to ruin, and a nation letting everything alone would commit suicide.
-- Friedrich List

#Letting Go #Suicide #Fall
But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power.
-- Friedrich List

#Welfare #Individual #Social
An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of a part of its members.
-- Friedrich List

#May #Welfare #Individual
Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common welfare.
-- Friedrich List

#Principles #Looks #Common
The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce.
-- Friedrich List

#Mean #Purpose #Machines
The relationship I have to my fatherland is like that of mothers with crippled children: they love them all the more, the more crippled they are. Germany is the background of all my plans, the return to Germany.
-- Friedrich List

#Mother #Children #Germany

Problems worthy of attacks, prove their worth by hitting back
Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.
"Murphys law of economic policy": Economists have the least influence on policy where they know the most and are most agreed; they have the most influence on policy where they know the least and disagree most vehemently.
Every short statement about economics is misleading (with the possible exception of my present one).
Over the long term, absent of other barriers, economics always win.
Economists are about as useful as astrologers in predicting the future (and, like astrologers, they never let failure on one occasion diminish certitude on the next).
Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.
I take the subway to work. I love mass transportation.
What is it with you, sex, and modes of transportation?
Eight out of 10 drivers prefer driving for Lyft. We'll keep delivering our message. We'll keep talking about how we want to push forward the future of transportation in a people-centric way, and the narrative has already changed dramatically in the past year, and will continue to change as we continue to tell our story.

Friedrich List famous quotes

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