Exports Quotes

“Goods are traded, but services are consumed and produced in the same place. And you cannot export a haircut. But we are coming close to exporting a haircut, the appointment part. What kind of haircut do you want? Which barber do you want? All those things can and will be done by a call center far away.”
― Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

“Oil and coal? Of course, it's a fungible commodity and they don't flag, you know, the molecules, where it's going and where it's not [...]. So, I believe that what Congress is going to do, also, is not to allow the export bans to such a degree that it's Americans that get stuck to holding the bag without the energy source that is produced here, pumped here.”
― Sarah Palin

“I sent messengers across Italy: to our farms for wood pigeons, dormice, capons, and heaping baskets of grapes, apples, and beets; to the fields beyond Rome for fresh pears; to Nomentanum for amphorae of wine, some more than forty years old; to Praeneste for hazelnuts; and to the plains between Ostia and Lavinium for wild boar and deer. I sent men to Ostia for fresh, salty mackerel and mussels and to Mount Hymettus for the finest honey to dilute the Falernian wine we had on stock at home for the princeps and all the senators. I purchased ginger, nutmeg, cloves, and other spices from India and Taprobane, not only to flavor the food but to present as gifts. I even sent a man to Sicilia for green and black olives and for the olive relish that was a specialty of the region. I reveled in the planning of such a massive banquet.”
― Crystal King, Feast of Sorrow

“A Nation that continues to consume more than she produces, that imports more than she exports, is a Nation that will eventually self destruct.”
― Paul Bamikole

“Nations do not exist in isolation. Peoples have always roamed the globe in search of different opportunities. Nations principally trade to expand their consumption possibilities. In a world where we produce to consume, receiving goods and services is better in material terms than sending them elsewhere.”
― William F. Mitchell, Modern Monetary Theory: Key Insights, Leading Thinkers

“While export spending boosts national income, we consider exports to be a cost in the sense that they deprive the domestic population of the use of the
real resources that are used up in the production of the goods and services sold abroad.”
― William F. Mitchell, Modern Monetary Theory: Key Insights, Leading Thinkers

“While export spending boosts national income, we consider exports to be a cost in the sense that they deprive the domestic population of the use of the real resources that are used up in the production of the goods and services sold abroad.”
― William F. Mitchell, Modern Monetary Theory: Key Insights, Leading Thinkers