Economics Quotes · Page 103

Training and development: The best development programmes change the way people see themselves

— John Bright

We are on dangerous terrain when government picks winners and losers in the economy by subsidizing favored products and industries.

— Charles Koch

Unequal distribution of income is an excessively uneconomic method of getting the necessary saving done.

— Joan Robinson

Economic power is not the same as strength of national character. Our country may be rich in goods, but we are poor…

— Richard M. Nixon

Independently owned restaurants and small businesses are the backbone of our local economies.

— Michelle Steel

“Man is smart - If money would have grown on trees, we would have used green leaves as money.”

— Amit Kalantri

We should make innovations in coal-mining and metallurgical industries in particular so as to revitalize the overall economy of the country.

— Kim Jong-un

Women of the world to say goodbye to gold, the world economy will be on the verge of breaking point

— Mak_786

“Among the members of these upper income groups are US academic economists, many of whom believe that the economy of the United…

— Thomas Piketty

Today, local economies are being destroyed by the pluralistic, displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in a locality.…

— Wendell Berry

However, the fact that an economist offers a theoretical analysis does not and should not automatically command respect. What is needed is…

— Paul Krugman

Most Republicans and the business community extol the virtues of trade, depicting it as an engine of economic progress, while most Democrats…

— William M. Daley

It is the habit of the unthinking to turn to the illusions of economic magic. These unhappy times call for the building…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

But the dollars spent on economic incentives and new investment strategies are wasted unless we seriously address the two most important economic…

— Kathleen Sebelius

[Economists' advice] is something like patent medicine - people know it is largely manufactured by quacks and that a good percentage of…

— Barbara Bergmann

The effect of capitalism is to steer human selfishness so that, through the invisible hand of competition, the energies of the capitalist…

— Dinesh D'Souza

To achieve long-term success over many financial market and economic cycles, observing a few rules is not enough. Too many things change…

— Seth Klarman

“Kakonomics (from the Greek, the economics of the worst) describes cases wherein people not only have the standard preference for receiving high-quality…

— John Brockman

As we move toward the pluralist commonwealth, economic interventions that stabilize communities - for instance by localizing the flows of goods and…

— Gar Alperovitz

I’ve been thinking about that proof I spoke of last time – that you’re where you’re supposed to be. And it occurred…

— Tammara Webber

Monopolies, oligarchy, the striving for domination and not for freedom, the exploitation of an increasing number of small or weak nations by…

— Vladimir Lenin

Economy denotes the the proper management of materials and of site, as well as a thrifty balancing of cost and common sense…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“Virtually all of us now share with the most powerful industrialists their remoteness from actual experience of the actual world. Like them,…

— Wendell Berry

“The decline of geography in academia is easy to understand: we live in an age of ever-increasing specialization, and geography is a…

— Ken Jennings

Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor.

— Adam Smith

Innovation, I believe, is the only way that America will regain the initiative in a global dynamic economy.

— John Sculley

The economy of the future might be called the "spaceman economy," in which the earth has become a single spaceship, without unlimited…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

I support a robust economy where agriculture and businesses are able to compete in a fair and open global market.

— Ryan Zinke

Railroads are the primary economic beneficiaries. It's a difficult project for the public sector.

— John Gates

The general message is about a bigger global integrated economy is going to lead to faster growth, that policy could improve efficiency…

— Paul Romer

When people are able to live at home, they have more disposable income. That part is good for the economy.

— John Layfield

The kind of capitalism I hate most is crony capitalism, the friends who decide. These are things which should be killed in…

— Anatoly Chubais

One of the most important branches of the Egyptian economy is tourism. No bikinis, no tourism. So they have to decide what…

— Shimon Peres

The global realignment is accelerating the migration of growth and wealth dynamics from the industrial world to the larger emerging economies.

— Mohamed El-Erian

Capitalism has given people both the liberty and the incentive to create, produce, and trade, thereby generating prosperity.

— Johan Norberg

A wide range of social, collective phenomena can be made to emerge from the interactions of autonomous agents operating to simple local…

— Robert Axtell

“The mechanics of our economy, once you understand them, are both shocking and tempting. Unchecked power has the the same effect.”

— M.B. Watson

Every short statement about economics is misleading (with the possible exception of my present one).

— Alfred Marshall

The purpose of economic theory is to make those who are comfortable FEEL comfortable.

— Thomas Balogh, Baron Balogh

We got into a recession because the global economy went into the recession and we're a big exporting nation.

— Stephen Harper