George J. Borjas quotes

George J. Borjas quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“What immigration really does is redistribute wealth away from workers toward employers.”
-- George J. Borjas

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“Being without work [in the United States] is still far better for most people than being employed in Central America.”
-- George J. Borjas

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“One of the critical issues that we have to confront is illegal immigration, because this is a multi-headed Hydra that affects our economy, our health care, our health care, our education systems, our national security, and also our local criminality.”
“He doesn't like my name... Of course we couldn't all come over on the Mayflower... But I got here as soon as I could, and I never wanted to go back, because to me it is a great privilege to be an American citizen.”

Source : Source: theanarchistlibrary.org
“...for the system to be credible, people actually have to be deported at the end of the process.”
“We can certainly defuse the intensity of the anti-immigrant feeling if we can bring some reality to the discussion by showing that they are not using that many resources.”
“If after accepting the spiritual master and being initiated one does not follow the rules and regulations of devotional service, then he is again fallen.”
“You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.”
“What good is money if it can't buy happiness?”
“Do not vie with others in the accumulation of wealth. Vie with them in Ibadaah.”
“To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients, by which the wealth of a nation may be promoted.”
“Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.”

Source : Alfred Marshall, Mary Paley Marshall (1888). “The Economics of Industry”

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