Karl Otto Pohl quotes

Karl Otto Pohl quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Inflation is like toothpaste. Once it's out, you can hardly get it back in again.”
-- Karl Otto Pohl

#Economics Quotes #Toothpaste Quotes #Inflation Quotes

“Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.”

Source : Adam Smith (2016). “The Wealth of Nations”, Xist Publishing
“Problems worthy of attacks, prove their worth by hitting back”
“Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.”
“The analyses ... often become too competent to be comprehensible...”
“There is always a little more toothpaste in the tube. Think about it.”

Source : Bill Bryson (2000). “The Complete Notes”, Random House
“Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it is awfully hard to get it back in.”

Source : Quoted in Hearings Before the Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities of the United States Senate: Watergate and Related Activities (1973).
“Inflation is like toothpaste. Once it's out, you can hardly get it back in again.”
“Prolonged inflation never 'stimulates' the economy. On the contrary, it unbalances, disrupts, and misdirects production and employment.”
“Domestic inflation reflects domestic monetary policy.”
“What we call "willing" is often but an inflation of ourselves, attended by a hardening.”

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