优文网

It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.

  • -- Adam Smith 亚当·史密斯

不是通过增加国家的资本，而是通过使这些资本中比其他情况下更大的一部分具有活性和生产性，使最明智的银行业务能够增加国家的工业。

标签

Industry Capital Active Banking Productive

相关名言

We think we have to work because the advertising industry has elevated wants into needs. The newspapers and the television batter us incessantly with the latest 'must-haves', whether that's shoes, videogames or patio heaters. As a result, mums think they 'have' to work at Tesco in order to buy expensive trainers.

我们认为我们必须工作，因为广告业已经把需求提升为需求。报纸和电视不断地向我们提供最新的“必需品”，无论是鞋子、电子游戏还是户外取暖器。因此，妈妈们认为她们“必须”在乐购工作，才能买到昂贵的运动鞋。

阅读 +

The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.

受教育的问题在于它需要很长时间;它占用了你生活中较好的部分，当你完成工作后，你知道，如果你进入银行业，你会受益更多。

阅读 +

The fundamental problem with banks is what it's always been: they're in the business of banking, and banking, whether plain vanilla or incredibly sophisticated, is inherently risky.

银行的根本问题一直是:它们从事的是银行业，而银行业，无论是普通的还是极其复杂的，本质上都是有风险的。

阅读 +

The older, thinner, and less productive grass lands, however, frequently can be made to produce much larger yields of feed in corn than if left, as they are, in unproductive grass.

然而，较老的、较薄的、生产力较低的草地，通常可以用玉米生产比不生产的草地高得多的饲料产量。

阅读 +

Whenever we don't turn the ball over, we're pretty productive. When you're turning the ball over, you're cutting down on offensive opportunities.

只要我们不把球转过来，我们的效率就会很高。当你把球翻过来的时候，你就减少了进攻的机会。

阅读 +

If capital and labor ever do get together it's good night for the rest of us.

如果资本和劳动力真的在一起，对我们其他人来说，这将是一个美好的夜晚。

阅读 +

I am active in brain storming with our people, our strategists, in Thailand.

在泰国，我积极地与我们的人民、我们的战略家进行头脑风暴。

阅读 +

I think sometimes we in the industry have to do ambitious projects.

我认为有时候我们这个行业不得不做一些雄心勃勃的项目。

阅读 +

I've always had an active imagination.

我的想象力一直很活跃。

阅读 +

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

资本不是稀缺;愿景。

阅读 +

热门话题