“decisions made by economic actors (households, firms, the state) are constrained by limited information.” — Jean Tirole Copy Share Image
The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
“We had to build an economy that worked for everyone and an inclusive society that respected everyone. We” — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
Plays are getting smaller and smaller, not because playwrights minds are shrinking but because of the economics. — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
It's the behaviour of your company and its people that form your reputation, and your reputation is your brand — Dave Allen Copy Share Image
Capitalism is not so much an aberration as a step on an evolutionary path, and one that contains within it some of… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
“People who lack economic and social power often expand their physical impact on the world." "-In Pursuit of Silence” — Lessing Copy Share Image
Some of our businesses use more energy than others, but our strategy everywhere is the same.. first, reduce our use of energy… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
A market that's as open as possible is the precondition for a successful economy, and a successful economy is the precondition to… — Gerhard Schroder Copy Share Image
What I have been trying to remind people of for the past 40 years is that you can’t operate an entire conventional… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
Wealth comes from successful individual efforts to please one's fellow man ... that's what competition is all about: "outpleasing" your competitors to… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
In my judgment, we have to avoid, at all costs, tax increases. That would be the worst possible thing to do and… — Meg Whitman Copy Share Image
And one day we must ask the question, "Why are there forty million poor people in America?" And when you begin to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The principal impact of foreign enterprise on the development of the underdeveloped countries lies in hardening and strengthening the sway of merchant… — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
“The diseconomies of capitalism are treated as the public's responsibility. Corporate America skims the cream and leaves the bill for us to… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
If in the human economy, a squash in the field is worth more than a bushel of soil, that does not mean… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The typical capitalists are lovers of power rather than sensual indulgence, but they have the same tendency to crush and to take… — Ellen Ruppel Shell Copy Share Image
The free enterprise concept inherent in the economic model of capitalism should mean common people, or lower and middle class wage-earners, have… — James Morcan Copy Share Image
The 'American dream' ... means an economy in which people who work hard can get ahead and each new generation lives better… — Alice Rivlin Copy Share Image
“History, practical experience, common sense and economic theory all agree: economic competition is probably one of the greatest ideas humans ever came… — Michele Boldrin Copy Share Image
When we talk about economic growth, we're not talking about bringing a bunch of companies in that can make a bunch of… — Chokwe Lumumba Copy Share Image
My concern over private property is that it no longer fosters individuality. The historic destiny of private property is that it has… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical macroeconomic theory, markets depend only on moods: specifically,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“Adam Smith himself made the analogy of the economy as a watch or a clock that once set in motion continues on… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Reader, you forget that economics precedes religion; worship grew out of eating, not the other way around. — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
Capitalism gives all of us a great opportunity if we seize it with both hands and hang on to it. — Al Capone Copy Share Image
The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor. — William Feather Copy Share Image
Economic activity is carried out by individuals in organisations that require a high degree of social co-operation — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
The gap in our economy is between what we have and what we think we ought to have - and that is… — Paul Heyne Copy Share Image
Recent rampage is a function of the exponential growth of populations and economies. It has to do with globalization and the steady… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
For the majority of Americans, collectivist or nationalized economy is morally wrong and therefore unjust. For them, free enterprise meets their keen… — Ndabaningi Sithole Copy Share Image
It's critical to have a sound foundation in free-market economics and the Constitution. A great many Republicans in Washington don't have that… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
The proper form of economy must be observed in building houses for each and every class. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
“The current (educational) structure, which seeks low-cost uniformity that meets minimum standards, is killing our economy, our culture, and us.” — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time. — Douglas Horton Copy Share Image
I wrote on my desk wall when I was writing the film...'Art is socialism, but life is capitalism.' That's the hard thing… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
My father, Donald, came from Jamaica to study economics. My mother, Shyamala, came from India to study the science of fighting disease. — Kamala Harris Copy Share Image
“it was the wars of the twentieth century that wiped away the past to create the illusion that capitalism had been structurally… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
I believe that capitalism is the one thing in this world that's brought people out of poverty. — Rick Harrison Copy Share Image
