A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
经济
Economy
Farms and ranches contend with much more than quarterly reports and profit margins - the weather can wreak havoc on their quality of life and economic viability. When natural disasters strike, we must do all we can to assist the backbone of our economy.
农场和牧场要应付的不仅仅是季度报告和利润率——天气会对它们的生活质量和经济生存能力造成严重破坏。当自然灾害来袭时，我们必须尽我们所能帮助我们经济的支柱。
I'm a capitalist by conviction and profession. I believe the best economic system is one that rewards entrepreneurship and risk-taking, maximizes customer choice, uses markets to allocate scarce resources and minimizes the regulatory burden on business.
我是一个有信念和职业的资本家。我认为，最好的经济体系是奖励企业家精神和冒险精神，使客户选择最大化，利用市场分配稀缺资源，并将企业的监管负担降至最低。
I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value.
我想向你们指出，所有经济问题的根源在于，我们的经济体系试图维持两件事之间的价值平等，最好从一开始就将其视为价值不平等。
Protectionism is a very real danger. It is understandable that in times of a severe downturn protectionist pressures mount but the lessons of history are clear. If we give in to protectionist pressures, we will only send the world into a downward spiral.
保护主义是一个非常现实的危险。在严重衰退时期，保护主义压力加大是可以理解的，但历史的教训是显而易见的。如果我们屈服于保护主义压力，我们只会让世界陷入螺旋式下降。
It doesn't matter much where your company sits in its industry ecosystem, nor how vertically or horizontally integrated it is - what matters is its relative 'share of customer value' in the final product or solution, and its cost of producing that value.
你的公司在其行业生态系统中所处的位置并不重要，垂直或水平的整合程度也不重要——重要的是它在最终产品或解决方案中所占的相对“客户价值份额”，以及产生该价值的成本。
There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing final could ever come of that bitter debate because it is forever impossible to prove what might have happened in place of what did.
关于新政的行为究竟是推动了经济复苏，还是阻碍了经济复苏，一直存在着无休止的争议，而这场激烈的辩论永远不会有任何结果，因为永远不可能证明本来会发生什么，而不是发生了什么。
But what I believe is that if a person's individual rights or right to be a part of our economic system is violated under statute, we aggressively go after it. But we don't issue mandates to businesses that you've got to do this and you've got to do that.
但我认为，如果一个人的个人权利或成为我们经济体系一部分的权利受到法律的侵犯，我们会积极争取。但我们不会向企业下达命令，要求它们必须这样做，也必须那样做。
I used to be focused on being the dopest rapper in the game, and then once that became what I was, I wanted something different, and I wanted to become the best businessman in the game. I wanted to learn how to master the business like I mastered the rap.
我曾经专注于成为游戏中最愚蠢的说唱歌手，而一旦我成为这样的人，我就想要一些不同的东西，我想成为游戏中最好的商人。我想学习如何像掌握说唱一样掌握业务。
We are the number one economy in the world, and we ought to continue to pursue those kinds of policies that ensure that we maintain that position, like innovation and like technology and like education and like just research and development and discovery.
我们是世界上最大的经济体，我们应该继续推行确保我们保持这一地位的政策，比如创新、技术、教育、研究、发展和发现。
The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.
在任何高度组织化的工业社会中，良好的声誉最终建立在经济实力的基础上;休闲和炫耀性的商品消费是显示经济实力、获得或保持好名声的手段。
On the one hand we have got to ask, are there some areas of universal benefits that are no longer affordable? But on the other hand let us look at the issue of dependency where we have trapped people in poverty through the extent of welfare that they have.
一方面，我们必须问，是否有一些领域的全民福利已经无法承受?但另一方面，让我们看看依赖的问题，我们通过人们所享有的福利使他们陷入贫困。
I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the cost of not giving it up. In fact, we may find that, while we're drastically cutting our energy consumption, we're actually raising our standard of living.
我相信普通人会放弃很多，如果他真的明白不放弃的代价。事实上，我们可能会发现，当我们大幅削减能源消耗时，我们实际上提高了我们的生活水平。
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Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.
永远不要让经济因素独自决定你的职业或你如何度过大部分时间。
The economy is not an abstraction. The economy consists of people, and it will only grow if people feel secure and are reasonably free.
经济不是一个抽象概念。经济是由人组成的，只有当人们感到安全并享有合理的自由时，经济才会增长。
Economic growth and environmental protection are not at odds. They're opposite sides of the same coin if you're looking at longer-term prosperity.
经济增长和环境保护并不矛盾。如果你着眼于长期的繁荣，它们是同一枚硬币的两面。
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.
学习经济学的目的不是为了获得一套现成的经济问题的答案，而是学习如何避免被经济学家所欺骗。
Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.
在有限的世界里，物质消费的无限增长是不可能的。
You might say that economic history is the history of people learning to manage risk.
你可能会说经济史是人们学习管理风险的历史。