America still is the center of the world, and what happens in the American economy matters everywhere. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is. — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
To ensure continuing prosperity in the global economy, nothing is more important than the development and application of knowledge and skills. — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Did not shy away from centralized intervention in the economy where he though it necessary — Denis Mack-Smith Copy Share Image
Most signs in the economy and market point to another strong year for sales of new cars and trucks. — Paul Taylor Copy Share Image
Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I think one of the most important skills of a local organizer of a local economy is an ability to put on… — David Korten Copy Share Image
Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Government in and of itself is the foremost agent for destroying order and imposing chaos." "To accept the legitimacy of the state… — L.K. Samuels Copy Share Image
To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract… — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
Today, we live in a world of incredible wealth and technology, alongside the most horrendous conditions of poverty, war and environmental crisis.… — Kshama Sawant Copy Share Image
I invested in many companies, and I'm happy this one worked. This is capitalism. You invest in stock, it goes up, it… — Terry McAuliffe Copy Share Image
In antiquity, agriculture and industry depended completely on human labor; but now, with the development of natural forces that human labor cannot… — Sun Yat-sen Copy Share Image
The fact throughout history is that whenever government dominates the economic affairs of its citizenry, a free society is eroded, then destroyed,… — William E. Simon Copy Share Image
Here is a law which is above the King and which even he must not break. This reaffirmation of a supreme law… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The astounding variety of foods on offer in the modern supermarket obscures the fact that the actual number of species in the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
No individual or private group or private organization has the legal power to initiate the use of physical force against other individuals… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Markets are not just about the steam engine, iron foundries, or today’s silicon-chip factories. Markets also supported Shakespeare, Haydn, and the modern… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
“The bankers and financiers are badly overplaying their hands, again, and people are starting to catch on to the scam. Real wealth… — Chris Martenson Copy Share Image
Resilience, timing, adaptation - these are the three pillars upon which the emergent properties of interacting systems rest. When the systems are… — John L. Casti Copy Share Image
To be sure, the use of force by one party in a market transaction in order to improve his price was no… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Growth is the mantra of our society because the economy can't remain healthy without growth.Impregnable monopolies aside (and these are few), profits… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
The climate crisis is both the easiest and the hardest issue we have ever faced. The easiest because we know what we… — Greta Thunburg Copy Share Image
“I happen to believe that the deepest value of fiction is that, in its very fictiveness, it is the one arena where… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
Here's what I tell people now when they come to my shows: 'First of all, thank you for stimulating the economy, or… — Daniel Tosh Copy Share Image
“There is nothing as dangerous as an economist who only knows economics except the moral philosopher who knows no economics.” — Peter Boettke Copy Share Image
No legal tender law is ever needed to make men take good money; its only use is to make them take bad… — Steven T. Byington Copy Share Image
Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn't necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
There is a state that is able to understand the demand in the economy. That state should use prices as an instrument… — Anatoly Chubais Copy Share Image
Real benefits come when managers begin to understand the profound difference between 'cost cutting' and 'eliminating the causes of costs' — Brian L. Joiner Copy Share Image
The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of society and creates equal opportunity. — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
There can be no autonomous agent with unitary interests called 'society' that exerts causal influence. This is a logical impossibility — David Buss Copy Share Image
One of the big lessons from behavioral economics is that we make decisions as a function of the environment that we're in. — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
We are focused on Main Street, on supporting economic conditions - plentiful jobs and stable prices - that help all Americans. — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westers… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
The notion of humans as inherently rational beings has been not only trashed in economics, but trashed in all the best research… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries. — Atal Bihari Vajpayee Copy Share Image
I think there's a lot of merit in an international economy and global markets, but they're not sufficient because markets don't look… — George Soros Copy Share Image
The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech. — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
the principal sources of human misery may fairly be said to lie in the over-possession, under-possession, and the unwise use of economic… — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image