Economics Quotes

“Then the shit hit the fan.”

— John Kenneth Galbraith

What you manage in business is people

— Harold Geneen

Capitalism is a pretty brutal place.

— Charlie Munger

I don't think capitalism can survive.

— Douglas Tompkins

Economics is a very dangerous science.

— John Maynard Keynes

Optics can drive an economy.

— Shane Douglas

Fascism is capitalism plus murder.

— Upton Sinclair

The economy is a very sensitive organism.

— Hjalmar Schacht

I get up every morning and think...today I'm going to end capitalism.

— Bill Ayers

The sun of liberty is set; you must light up the candle of industry and economy.

— Benjamin Franklin

The only problem with capitalism is the capitalists.

— Herbert Hoover

“Money can only be used to buy man-made goods.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Economics exists to make astrology look respectable.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The cost of the high-cost economy remains too high.

— Paul Wolfowitz

You cannot have an advanced economy while holding women back from the workplace.

— Stephen Marche

Pocketbook and economic issues is pretty much all I campaigned on.

— Raja Krishnamoorthi

As long as there are big corporations, there will be big unions. The economic power of big business will be matched by…

— Margaret Chase Smith

Where people are now in terms of the economic crisis, they're looking at what we think is the bottom, and I think…

— Emilio Estevez

A term like capitalism is incredibly slippery, because there's such a range of different kinds of market economies.

— Naomi Klein

“Talent, just like gold or any other precious commodity is subject to the same demand & supply economics”

— Gyan Nagpal

The ideal situation for any state is to experience sharp economic growth while its rivals' economies grow slowly or hardly at all.

— John Mearsheimer

A country which does not respect the rights of its own citizens will not respect the rights of its neighbours

— Andrei Sakharov

Latter-day capitalism. Like it or not, it's the society we live in. Even the standard of right and wrong has been subdi-vided,…

— Anonymous

But my shift to the serious study of economics gradually weakened my belief in Major Douglas's A+B theorem, which was replaced in…

— James Meade

Economic diseases are highly communicable. It follows therefore that the economic health of every country is a proper matter of concern to…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

What you get out of an M.B.A. programme, no matter how much experience, is functional tools and understanding in disciplines: you'll understand…

— Henry Mintzberg

The German car industry has a clear vision of the necessity of stability in the continent that goes beyond selling cars. For…

— Frans Timmermans

Economists tend to think they are much, much smarter than historians, than everybody. And this is a bit too much because at…

— Thomas Piketty

The situation is that in Germany capitalism has remained, classes and class struggle have remained which all the same will break into…

— Joseph Stalin

Sound public finances are the essential foundation on which to construct a better-balanced economy from the wreckage of Labour's boom and bust.…

— Philip Hammond

In this context, the current recovery in the Japanese economy is taking place in tandem with the growing interdependence with the rest…

— Toshihiko Fukui

My response [to fear of being poor]was to study contracts, finance, economics, to plan, to have a goal, to work on that…

— Elizabeth Warren

“Social Ecology: The notion that man must dominate nature emerges directly from the domination of man by man… But it was not…

— Murray Bookchin

“Who needs me?” is a question of character which suffers a radical challenge in modern capitalism. The system radiates indifference. It does…

— Richard Sennett

“Economic theory is devoted to the study of equilibrium positions. The concept of equilibrium is very useful. It allows us to focus…

— George Soros

“If there are costs to becoming legal, there are also bound to be costs to remaining outside the law. We found that…

— Hernando de Soto

The current economic crisis...has numerous causes and sends a powerful message about the need for a profound revision of the model of…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“The generic concept of capital without which economists cannot do their work has no measurable counterpart among material objects; it reflects the…

— Ludwig Lachmann

“The bourgeoisie...by its imperialist methods of appropriation is destroying the economic structure of the world and human culture generally. Nevertheless, the historical…

— Leon Trotsky

“Even though it is made up of a for-profit and a non-profit sector, the world of art is an industry just like…

— Lise Soskolne