Quotes of: Surplus Keyword

Surplus meant unnecessary. Not required. You couldn’t be a Surplus if you were needed by someone else. You couldn’t be a Surplus if you were loved.

The Declaration

Machinery which is not used is not capital.

Theories of Surplus Value

The surplus of the heart overflows from a smile. (Le surplus du coeur - Déborde d'un sourire)

Charles de Leusse

A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Marshall Field

The trade deficit is the capital surplus and don't ever think of having a capital surplus as being a bad thing for our country.

Arthur Laffer

Upgrading one's imagination about what is possible is always a leap of faith.

Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age

Since, however, the reduced surplus value is to be distributed among them in like manner, the modification of their respective parts in the production of surplus value must find expression in a modification of the prices.

Rudolf Hiferding

Personal value is the kind of value we receive from being active instead of passive, creative instead of consumptive.

Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age

The first year of the Bush administration we used up all of the surplus and ended up just with the Social Security and Medicare surplus, and each year worse than the year before.

Bobby Scott

The Americans want a surplus stocked up to supply their every whim. And their appeals are much less requests, more demands. Indeed, the phrase might be more aptly put: Demand and Surplus.

Geoffrey Wood

How we treat one another matters, and not just in a "it's nice to be nice" kind of way: our behavior contributes to an environment that encourages some opportunities and hinders others.

Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age

In a society not characterised by class exploitation, the relationship between the processes of surplus-production and reproduction of labour-power is qualitatively distinct from that characterising societies in which exploitation dominates...surplus...

Lise Vogel

People above the line of bare subsistence in this age, and in all earlier ages, do not use the surplus which society has given them primarily for useful purposes. They do not seek to expand their lives, to live more wisely, intelligently, understandi...

Stuart Chase

Public and civic value require commitment and hard work among the core group of participants. It also requires that these groups be self-governing and submit to constraints that help them ignore distracting and entertaining material and stay focused ...

Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age

Nick, Surplus Store Owner: [showing D-Fens his selection of hiking boots] Let's see what we got. These here are the top of the line. Scientifically engineered and all that crap. Guaranteed by some Sierra Club asshole not to hurt a chipmunk IF you ste...

Falling Down

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Andrew Carnegie

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Aneurin Bevan

Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil.

Daniel Yergin

You'd rather have a surplus versus a shortage in your position.

Kenneth Lay

Our enormous surplus revenues are illogical and oppressive.

John Griffin Carlisle

This work is not easy, and it never goes smoothly. Because we are hopelessly committed to both individual and group effectiveness, groups committed to public or civic value are rarely permanent. Instead, groups need to acquire a culture that rewards ...

Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age