Economics Quotes · Page 133

I think the rise of quantitative econometrics and a highly mathematical approach to risk management was the obverse of a decline in…

— Niall Ferguson

“Your VISION and your self-willingness is the MOST powerful elements to conquer your goal”

— Rashedur Ryan Rahman

While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.

— Robert Kennedy

As an economy measures performance in terms of the creation of money, people become a major source of inefficiency.

— David Korten

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

— Sinclair Lewis

I am very new to cooking. At school, our home economics lessons were very poor. We were told to pick a recipe…

— Sarah Millican

The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.

— Walter Ulbricht

I studied economics. I studied industrial engineering. It wasn't until later, when I was around 26, that I really decided to go…

— Raoul Peck

Even if it does not become cashless economy, it will become a less cash economy, and I think that itself is going…

— Chanda Kochhar

Economic theory has nothing to say as to what commodity will acquire the status of money. Historically, it happened to be gold.…

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

While I have questions about the language used in describing the two economic systems, I think people have fairly good gut sense…

— Chris Matthews

The promises of pie-in-the-sky liberal environmentalists that we can convert to 'clean' energy sources and stimulate our economy are based on dubious…

— David Limbaugh

If our goal in legislating against carbon releases is not simply punishing the West and its power companies but truly trying to…

— Gregg Easterbrook

In the humanities and social sciences, and in fields like journalism and economics and so on, people have to be trained to…

— Noam Chomsky

Gary Becker has taken economic analysis to amazing levels. His doctoral thesis, which is related to economic discrimination, and his treatises on…

— Javier Milei

By a combination of formal training and self study, the latter continuing systematically well into the 1940s, I was able to gain…

— Herbert A. Simon

I find it remarkable that virtually all of the large difference in labor supply between France and the United States is due…

— Edward C. Prescott

We've now become conscious of the uncalculated social, economic, and environmental costs of that kind of "unconscious" capitalism. And many are beginning…

— Patricia Aburdene

I was always interested in the larger picture, I was pre-law in college, and had a degree in economics. I was very…

— Jay Roach

“Nowadays… deals are transactional rather than personal. Instead of placing your faith in a person, you get lawyers to write safeguards into…

— Jonathan Sacks

“George Bernard Shaw once said: “Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.”…

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

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

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

“Depicting rational economic man as an isolated individual – unaffected by the choices of others – proved highly convenient for modelling the…

— Kate Raworth

If I could direct it [films] I would be very happy. But the economics of business don't always allow you to do…

— Lee Van Cleef

“The internet is less a creation dictated by economics than one dictated by sharing gifts.”

— Kevin Kelly

The way to turn our economy around is not by making rich people poorer, it's by making poor people richer.

— Marco Rubio

“In the YouTube economy, everyone is free to play, but only a few reap the rewards.”

— Nicholas Carr

Human material existence is limited by ideas, not stuff, people don't need copper wires they need ways to communicate, oil was a…

— Paul Romer

You can't create more jobs for an economy where the vast majority of people are hesitant and even afraid to spend and…

— Mark Goulston

The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted.

— Edmund Burke

A pickup in demand in many advanced economies and a stabilization in commodity prices should, in turn, boost the growth prospects of…

— Janet Yellen

The ultimate resource in economic development is people. It is people, not capital or raw materials that develop an economy.

— Peter Drucker

American capitalism has been both overpraised and overindicted. It is neither the Plumed Knight nor the monstrous Robber Baron.

— Max Lerner

If people that made products didn't market them and sell them we'd have no economy and nobody would be working.

— Paula Scher

Many people convince themselves if it is economically necessary, it's morally right. That's not always the case.

— Anonymous

Life results from the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators. The watchmaker is blind

— Richard Dawkins

“the euro, it seems, is stuck in a political no man's land – trapped between two opposing world views. And the battleground…

— Martin Cohen

Is it not obvious that the more complex an economy, the more certainly will governmental control of productive effort exert a retarding…

— Leonard Read

Opponents have claimed that regulating carbon will hurt the economy and businesses. The economies of California and British Columbia prove otherwise.

— Ted Wheeler