Economics Quotes · Page 86

When economic conditions are difficult, people tend to be less generous and protect themselves; the question of solidarity doesn't mean much to…

— Kofi Annan

“I didn't want to spend any more time inside the mind of an economist. It was dark and disturbing.”

— Andy Weir

Economists are very good at saying that something cannot go on forever, but not so good at saying when it will stop.

— Herbert Stein

If you bail out every investment bank that gets in trouble, that's not capitalism, that's socialism for the rich

— Jim Rogers

Neither the entrepreneurs nor the farmers nor the capitalists determine what has to be produced. The consumers do that.

— Ludwig von Mises

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

— Laurence J. Peter

I rather wish to rest my case on material considerations, not those of the social future but those of the actual historical…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

I'm one of the top 2 or 3 or 4 most conservative members in the House of Representatives when it comes to economics.

— Jeb Hensarling

Basically, movies come down to economics, and they're always too expensive. From a producer's point of view, an actor is either going…

— Ewen Bremner

As we pursue our strategies world-wide, we accept a social and environmental responsibility as well. These responsibilities include the promotion of a…

— John F. Smith Jr

“we decided to take Drucker’s advice and follow the money. First, we dubbed the amount of cash and coin people spend each…

— Steven Kotler

Capitalism is in crisis both morally, due to widening disparities of income and wealth and disclosures of abusive practices, and ecologically, due…

— Richard A. Falk

I'm signing on to be an athlete, and it's almost like Karl Marx's theory on capitalism. I am both the worker and…

— Lawrence Jackson

I have always believed that the ultimate purpose of economic policies and development policy is to meet the basic needs of our…

— Manmohan Singh

If the world economy is divided into isolated economic blocs of this kind, it will be rather difficult to achieve the same…

— Vladimir Putin

Capitalism has been called a system of greed—yet it is the system that raised the standard of living of its poorest citizens…

— Ayn Rand

“What the hell’s the matter with you men? Are you cowards as well as stupid? You boys make me sick. I’m done…

— Jerry Ash

What made traditional economies so radically different and so very fundamentally dangerous to Western economies were the traditional principles of prosperity of…

— Rebecca Adamson

So many people are living their lives out in an illusion. The illusion is that everything they know and perceive to be…

— Jeremy Limn

“Back in Ancient Greece when Xenophon first posed the economic question, ‘How should a household best manage its resources?’ he was literally…

— Kate Raworth

“[T]he just society is one in which each man may seek the things which belong to his nature. By contrast, a system…

— Russell Kirk

Anyone who studies the energy predicament understands its connection with the operations of capital - and by this I do not mean…

— James Howard Kunstler

“The obvious cure for the tragic shortcomings of human intuition in a high-tech world is education. And this offers priorities for educational…

— Steven Pinker

The first proponent of cortical memory networks on a major scale was neither a neuroscientist nor a computer scientist but .. a…

— Joaquin Fuster

If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise.

— Charles Handy

Complex regulation in place of simple-rules capitalism disrupts market processes and corrupts business incentives.

— Robert L. Bradley, Jr

If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows (referring to "trickle down" economics).

— John Kenneth Galbraith

When I came here almost nine years ago our economy was troubled and our nation was divided.

— Rodney King

An economy may be in equilibrium from a short-period point of view and yet contain within itself incompatibilities that are soon going…

— Joan Robinson

This is a serious analysis of a ridiculous subject, which is of course the opposite of what is usual in economics.

— Paul Krugman

We need a grownup conversation about why our political economy is killing life on Earth.

— Gail Bradbrook

The economic crisis caused by a hard Brexit or the democratic deficit of a soft Brexit both risk fuelling Britain's populist right.

— Wes Streeting

The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder.

— Frederic Bastiat

The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.

— Ludwig von Mises

If workers have less money in their pockets to put food on the table, they will be spending less money; your economy…

— Martin O'Malley

Educating our children and giving them the skills they need to compete in a global economy is a smart investment in our…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

America has always understood this principle of the economy - that everyone can benefit when everyone competes.

— Julia Gillard

“Only in economics is endless expansion seen as a virtue. In biology it is called cancer.”

— David Pilling

After a breakthrough year for America, our economy is growing and creating jobs at the fastest pace since 1999.

— Barack Obama

In fact unrestrained capitalism is quite cruel and the cost is on the individual human, on his or her grace.

— George Saunders