Top 237 Surplus Quotes & Sayings

It is dead wrong about necessary surplus of winnings over losings.

When progress is in short supply bring a surplus of determination.

Our government has been in a surplus position up until this year. We should be able to recover to a surplus position shortly, as quickly as the economy recovers. So, we're able to do the kind of stimulus that you see in the United States without deteriorating our debt position in the long-term.

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

A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence.

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.

One of the key drivers of Ireland's future is our balance of trade surplus.

What becomes of the surplus of human life? It is either, 1st. destroyed by infanticide, as among the Chinese and Lacedemonians; or 2d. it is stifled or starved, as among other nations whose population is commensurate to its food; or 3d. it is consumed by wars and endemic diseases; or 4th. it overflows, by emigration, to places where a surplus of food is attainable.

I am a happier person living in a country which has surplus of everything rather than shortages.

In 1988, federal data showed a modest China-trade surplus of $1.6 billion in Canada's favour.

If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.

Americans don't believe that we have a surplus of jobs. They believe that we have a surplus of job seekers, and they are competing for these jobs.

Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.

Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.

Prison is essentially a shortage of space made up for by a surplus of time; to an inmate, both are palpable.

Surplus RBI reserves can be used for poverty alleviation.

I went to school on a military base in Germany. I got a lot of my clothes at the army surplus store.

I don't think we have a surplus of fine educators in this country that we can just start dropping them for no reason whatsoever.

I certainly like it if the work is beautiful, but that's a surplus effect. I can only think about that after I consider how it's made.

There is more food in the world than we could possibly use. There's a huge surplus of food per capita, but it's locked away and rotting in the storehouses of the Western world, whereas in the East, in many parts of Africa, India and South America, people are starving to death. Millions of people are dying of starvation in a time in which there is a huge surplus of food.

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

Ohioans know that he inherited a mess and created a surplus. So, on election day, John [Kasich] will prevail in Ohio.

It is a fact worth pondering that four centuries ago the evil of "an abundance or surplus" arose from its being kept off the market, while today the evil of surplus lies in its being thrown upon the market.

I love the Army-Navy surplus store Surplus Value Center. They have really good long underwear and multicolored bandanas, cool camo jackets, and really, really scary-looking knives. If you're into that sort of thing.

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.

Surplus-value and the rate of surplus-value are... the invisible essence to be investigated, whereas the rate of profit and hence the form of surplus-value as profit are visible surface phenomena

Beauty and elegance are a right, not a surplus... . We must demand, at least, intention.

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Any surplus is immoral.

'Code sharing' is an economic surplus phenomenon. It works only when none of the people involved in it are in any form of need.

Our enormous surplus revenues are illogical and oppressive.

We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.

In a slow-growing world that is short on aggregate demand, Germany's trade surplus is a problem.

Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.

Governments that try to shoot for a surplus hardly ever reach it.

What works for Germany can't work for the rest of Europe: No country can run a chronic surplus without others running deficits.

With a Socialist government, there will not be a national surplus whilst there continues to be inequality.

Lack of money always means a surplus of creativity, in the best case.

How in heaven's name can a nation with a $1 trillion surplus threaten so much scientific research so vital to its future?

China is not looking for a trade surplus but wants to import more French goods.

I accumulated in those years so fine a surplus in the Book of Observance that I have been drawing confidently upon it ever since.

A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.

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

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.

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.

There's one big difference between me and the others - I won't take every last dime of the surplus and spend it on tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthy. I'll use the bulk of the surplus to secure Social Security far into the future to keep our promise to the greatest generation.

Outlaw embryo farming, but allow using surplus embryos.

Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species.

The U.S. incarceration binge is not tied to crime. It's a strategy to control the surplus population in a capitalist system that is breaking down.

Our practical choice is not between a tax-cut deficit and a budgetary surplus. It is between two kinds of deficits: a chronic deficit of inertia, as the unwanted result of inadequate revenues and a restricted economy; or a temporary deficit of transition, resulting from a tax cut designed to boost the economy, increase tax revenues, and achieve -- and I believe this can be done -- a budget surplus. The first type of deficit is a sign of waste and weakness; the second reflects an investment in the future.

The smaller the farm, the greater is the need for marketable surplus, so that the family will have cash income to meet their needs.

After aircraft production, the entertainment industry is America's largest source of trade surplus.

Whether we like it or not, government intervention in the face of surplus is here to stay.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust to be managed for the good of others.

It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.

I'm not crying over surplus capacity... Surplus capacity is good for India. Surplus capacity means we can get more investors, can get more households and promise them 24/7 power.

Our ideal society finds it essential to put a rent on land as a way of maximizing the total consumption available to the society. ...Pure land rent is in the nature of a 'surplus' which can be taxed heavily without distorting production incentives or efficiency. A land value tax can be called 'the useful tax on measured land surplus'.

How in heck are they handling their surplus population in Hell these days? Maybe by the time you and I are in the queue there won't be room for us.

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

Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.