Prices impose the most effective kind of rationing - self-rationing. Why is rationing necessary? Because what everybody wants always adds up to… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Profit is the sole criterion used by the establishment to evaluate economic activity. From the rat race to lame ducks. The vocabulary… — Jimmy Reid Copy Share Image
Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material,… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
Well, I think first of all, probably the most fundamental thing is that we are a mixed-signal analog semiconductor company, which, along… — David Milne Copy Share Image
We aren't leveraging this great economic engine, the strongest economy in the world. And yet we have this totally weak response. We… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
“To put it bluntly, the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
“The freer an economy is, the more this human diversity of knowledge will be manifested. By contrast, political power originates in top-down… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
A successful economy depends on the proliferation of the rich, on creating a large class of risk-taking men who are willing to… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
Let's face it, we're skunk drunk and it's because of money. It's almost like we all need to enter Betty Ford Clinic… — Steve Rubel Copy Share Image
Despite the large number of mergers, and the growth in the absolute size of many corporations, the dominant tendency in the American… — Gabriel Kolko Copy Share Image
The Gods did not reveal, from the beginning, all things to us, but in the course of time through seeking we may… — Xenophanes Copy Share Image
The luxury of today is the necessity of tomorrow. Every advance first comes into being as the luxury of a few rich… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Rent control is one policy that economists universally would oppose. It is a grossly inefficient way of allocating housing space and, of… — James M. Buchanan Copy Share Image
If government manages to establish paper tickets or bank credit as money, as equivalent to gold grams or ounces, then the government,… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The possibility that stock value in aggregate can become irrationally high is contrary to the hard-form "efficient market" theory that many of… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Part of the magic of economic growth is how you educate people, and the leading economies have to stay in front of… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“In 1980 candidate Reagan asked whether we were better off than we had been 4 years earlier. In 1992 we will be… — Frank Levy Copy Share Image
“It is unquestionably true that the need for art is not created by economic conditions. But neither is the need for food… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
When you take away the subsistence economy, then your farm population is seriously exposed to the vagaries of the larger economy. As… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
capital is the result of saving, and not of spending. The spendthrift who wastes his substance in riotous living decreases the capital… — Millicent Fawcett Copy Share Image
Life is full of uncertainties. Future investment earnings and interest and inflation rates are not known to anybody. However, I can guarantee… — Noel Whittaker Copy Share Image
If they [liberals] didn't believe we were mean spirited they couldn't stay liberal. They have to believe they mean better than us,… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
None of us has control over the economy, the job market, or anything else in the global sense. But we are 100%… — Edward Whitacre, Jr Copy Share Image
Sharia has become an increasingly significant force in American capitalism, thanks to the embrace by Wall Street and the U.S. government of… — Frank Gaffney Copy Share Image
Tourism, viticulture and agriculture, logging and mining, ranching and manufacturing and ever-increasing numbers of small and medium-sized businesses are just a few… — Stockwell Day Copy Share Image
Globalization can be very unjust and unfair and unequal, but these are matters under our control. Its not that we dont need… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
By now, it seems as if everyone has already read Thomas L. Friedman's 'The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the… — Andrew Ross Sorkin Copy Share Image
If the global economy is unresponsive to people who feel left behind, if inequality continues to grow, then we could end up… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Whenever the legislature attempts to regulate differences between masters and their workmen, its counsellors are always the masters. When the regulation, therefore,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
I believe that the 21st century economy is an economy of people, not of factories. The intellectual factor has become increasingly important… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“The essence of modern capitalism is not slavery of the antique pattern but the possession of the expensive tools of production by… — Francis Stuart Campbell Copy Share Image
Men will tell you sometimes that "money's hard." That shows it was not made to eat, I say… Some of those who… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Capitalism’s real “grave-diggers” may end up being its own delusional Cardinals, who have turned ideology into faith. Despite their strategic brilliance, they… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, government budgets were balanced, our money was sound, the streets were safe, and taxes imposed by all levels… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
For a free country to continue thriving, there have to be regular reforms, because any society, any economy that stays in place,… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
I think that local school districts - not the federal government - should make the decision about how they teach science, biology,… — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
“There is one and only one social responsibility of business–to use it resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
There are certain economics involved in making a network TV show that you want to amortize the costs of that, so the… — Shawn Ryan Copy Share Image
Whether one believes or not, religion is as real a force in the life of the world as economics or politics, and… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
A properly functioning free market system does not spring spontaneously from society's soil as crabgrass springs from suburban lawns. Rather, it is… — George Will Copy Share Image