1,310 Quotes About Activity

What you have is charity giving a positive veneer to an activity that may not be all that positive for many of the people that participate. It doesn't look good, feel good or smell good when charity is raising money not because of the charitable intent of people, but in a sense because of their weakness.

During the two centuries since the publication of 'The Wealth of Nations,' the main activity of economists, it seems to me, has been to fill the gaps in Adam Smith's system, to correct his errors and to make his analysis vastly more exact.

There's been a lot of download activity from what's known as the early adopters,

Places where there's a significant amount of activity usually have a technically advanced population and a large population of computer users. You also have a poor economy, so you have people with the technical skills to do good work, but they can't find a job that will provide for them, so they may have to resort to doing things that are against the law.

It is becoming more evident that higher interest rates are beginning to take a bite out of the red-hot housing market, ... While today's housing start result exaggerated weakness in the sector, it is yet another sign that the impact of higher rates has pushed housing activity off its peak.

Starts at year-end 2003 will provide additional support for GDP during the first two quarters of 2004 as construction activity gradually brings these buildings to completion.

U.S. industrial activity is improving, but it can't be described as healthy just yet.

After an incredibly warm January, February's chillier temperatures only managed to cool housing activity modestly.

It's incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the business of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success only to discover it's leaning against the wrong wall.