could I only use the correlation value of two variables to say that one variable has negative or positive effect on another variable?

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Fro example, for variable A and B, I have their time series respectively for 1000 long.Then using those to calculate their correlation is 0.8. Could I say that increase of A would also increase B. A has impacts on B .(I know the A is input variable, B is dependent variable) .