The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“Crying about the economy is a strategy. It won’t get you a job, but it will keep Kleenex in business.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
America is divided by economics, and we as Americans, we've got to do a better job of supporting poor people. — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
Like I say, I don't think it'll be done perfectly. Maybe we'll end up with a little bit better [economy] system. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“That's the exciting part about capitalism. It's like surfing, you have to catch the wave. - Martin Peter (aka Vermin Gobsmack)” — Jamie Delano Copy Share Image
The economic dependence of women is perhaps the greatest injustice that has been done to us, and has worked the greatest injury… — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share Image
Without new economies, our old economies get our jobs taken from them because everyone else has figured out how to do it. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that. — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
It's really interesting that we've had this great Tea Party movement that is all about restoring free market capitalist values, but what… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
In Poland we still believe - and this certainly applies to my government - that greater competitiveness, and greater growth and savings… — Donald Tusk Copy Share Image
The obsession with gold, actually and politically, occurs among those who regard economics as a branch of morality. Gold is solid, gold… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
When goods are digital, they can be replicated with perfect quality at nearly zero cost, and they can be delivered almost instantaneously.… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
The (U.K.) government's thesis that the countryside of upland and coastal Britain is 'worth sacrificing to save the planet' is an insult… — Simon Jenkins Copy Share Image
I think I developed a culture of healthy skepticism of claims of certainty on any side of the aisle. A sort of… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
“Capitalism is premised on the accumulation of capital, but under perfect competition all profits get competed away. The lesson for entrepreneurs is… — Blake Masters Copy Share Image
An investment in our kids is an investment in our future. It strengthens our economy through workforce development, attracts new jobs, and… — Tony Evers Copy Share Image
For what will it profit men that a more prudent distribution and use of riches make it possible for them to gain… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
Mathematical economics is old enough to be respectable, but not all economists respect it. It has powerful supporters and impressive testimonials, yet… — James R Newman Copy Share Image
“Depicting rational economic man as an isolated individual – unaffected by the choices of others – proved highly convenient for modelling the… — Kate Raworth Copy Share Image
The genius of capitalism lies in its ability to make self-interest serve the wider interest. The potential of a big financial return… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“Central planning inevitably leads to economic chaos and failure. Friedrich Hayek called the delusion that a single person or a group of… — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
“By its largely rhetorical devotion to the free market and its actual policies of constructing a permanent war economy, conservatism helps to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Considering that we live in an era of evolutionary everything---evolutionary biology, evolutionary medicine, evolutionary ecology, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary economics, evolutionary computing---it was… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
If we want to deliver opportunity for all, we need an economy that delivers jobs for the future. — John Major Copy Share Image
Like coal, capitalism has brought many benefits. But, like coal, it now causes more harm than good. — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Even a China growing at 7% or indeed less is still adding to the world economy an economy equivalent to the UK… — George Osborne Copy Share Image
Capitalism is about producing a better product at a better price. As individuals, we have to keep producing better products at a… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
The question is not really about a shift to the economic cone where officers are writing about the balance of payments and… — Lawrence Eagleburger Copy Share Image
5 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all… — Baldwin Spencer Copy Share Image
“Our attitude to these criticisms must be determined by our whole moral and emotional reaction to the future of international relations and… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
There is a respectable body of economic thought that holds that casino gambling is actually economically regressive to a state and a… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency. — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
I don't expect to get 100 percent of what I want, but what we can't do is go back to the kind… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As I have been arguing for a long time now, there is a real need not simply for a political economy of… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
We can't constantly explain to our voters that taxpayers have to be on the hook for certain risks, rather than those who… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
Economics brings into view that conflict of choice is one of the permanent characteristics of human existence. — Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins Copy Share Image
Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always. — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
It takes a certain brashness to attack the accepted economic legendsbut noneat all toperpetuatethem. So theyare perpetuated. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image