“Crying about the economy is a strategy. It won’t get you a job, but it will keep Kleenex in business.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
America is divided by economics, and we as Americans, we've got to do a better job of supporting poor people. — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
Like I say, I don't think it'll be done perfectly. Maybe we'll end up with a little bit better [economy] system. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“That's the exciting part about capitalism. It's like surfing, you have to catch the wave. - Martin Peter (aka Vermin Gobsmack)” — Jamie Delano Copy Share Image
We must create a [economic] crisis in order to ensure that there is no alternative to a smaller government. — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
Leadership of a world-economy is an experience of power which may blind the victor to the march of history. — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically. — Sidney Blumenthal Copy Share Image
It is certain that many intellectuals envy the higher income of prosperous businessmen and that these feelings drive them toward socialism. They… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The problems of the global economy are not based in perception, but in the reality of prices, balance sheets and income statements,… — Charles Hugh Smith Copy Share Image
Because economics is all about optimising, doing the best you can with what you have - it's usually the first place you… — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
The 20th Century approach to economics, resource depletion and over-consumption means we boom and bust until we bust more than we boom;… — Phil Harding Copy Share Image
In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
Capitalism designates an economic system significantly characterized by the predominance of "capital." Capitalism and double entry bookkeeping are absolutely indissociable; their relationship… — Werner Sombart Copy Share Image
The dominant orthodoxy in development economics was that Third World countries were trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty that could be… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Although population and consumption are societal issues, technology is the business of business. If economic activity must increase tenfold over what it… — Stuart L. Hart Copy Share Image
People like the robber barons assumed that the doctrine of the survival of the fittest authenticated them as deserving power. You know,… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“Economics is the art of allocating scarce goods among competing demands. The conceit of Marxism was the thought that in Communism, economics… — Daniel Bell Copy Share Image
“When nothing is valued for what it is, everything is destined to be wasted. Once the values of things refer only to… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Mr. Greenspan did a very good job in the early 1990's. But recently he's fallen prey to this crazy theory that prosperity… — Steve Forbes Copy Share Image
The New Capitalism (arising from the global economic downturn)...those running our biggest commercial businesses will have to be more visible. They'll have… — Robert Peston Copy Share Image
Capitalism is the best way of organizing economic activity for a lot of reasons. It unlocks a higher fraction of human potential,… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
“Capitalism and socialism are tools. Each have pros and cons. For each task, use the one that makes the most sense.” — T.J. Kirk Copy Share Image
Young entrepreneurs are the source for American innovation that drives growth in todays economy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In my opinion nothing has contributed more to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We remain open to explore options on a voluntary approach built on a realistic outlook for the Greek economy and restoration of… — Charles Dallara Copy Share Image
A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort ... is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The use of mathematics has brought rigor to economics. Unfortunately, it has also brought mortis. — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Having colleagues nearby, whether at the beach or in a crypt, means the ideas are always flowing — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I don't believe in trickle-down economics. I don't think that people who have the most are inclined to share it, generally. — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
Learning to be an effective leader is no different than learning to be an effective person. And that's the hard part — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Climate change is not an environmental issue, but much more to do with security and economics — Jonathon Porritt Copy Share Image
Political economy has only become a science since it has been confined to the results of inductive investigation. — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
Under stable and incremental conditions, a free-market economy spurs entrepreneurship, ensures efficiency, and generates wealth. Those conditions no longer apply. — Johan Rockstrom Copy Share Image
The economy went down when people started inventing bullshit stuff we don't even need to survive. — Justin Lee Riner Copy Share Image
Only a true faith that applies God’s Word to everything-incl uding economics-will lead to the revival and reformation our culture needs so… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image