Triumphant capitalism has unleashed a powerful drive toward inequality, not improvement, in the social sphere. — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
Each step in life has been another step in an area that was a challenge, that is highly satisfying and that gives… — Graeme Samuel Copy Share Image
Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a… — Clara Barton Copy Share Image
Men, like animals, naturally multiply in proportion to the means of their subsistence. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
We need investment in green economy infrastructure; public services, training and education; and a multilateral plan to create youth job opportunities. — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
What we do have is a gigantic matching tax-cutting program as a way of stimulating the economy. — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
There is no economy in having one operation produce a part and another separate the good ones from the bad ones. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
A generation ago, the image was that you had to trample everyone else down to succeed; but I don't believe that makes… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
It is government policy to phase out subsidies to nationalised industries. In line with this, the government hopes that the coal industry… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
We have the capacity to create a remarkably different economy: one that can restore ecosystems and protect the environment while bringing forth… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
In a perfect world what poor countries at the lowest rungs of economic development need is not a multi-party democracy, but in… — Dambisa Moyo Copy Share Image
At a very young age, I fell in love with the idea of being in a restaurant and being surrounded with people… — Dominique Crenn Copy Share Image
“Conscious evolution of the free enterprise system happens when we realize that neither the heavy handedness of government nor the greed of… — Said Elias Dawlabani Copy Share Image
Economics are part of our life. We try to treat them separately, like over there is the economy and here is history.… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
Until you separate the speculative behaviour of the financial sector from the real economy and the financing of the real economy, then… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
Economics really pervert every possible good thing that comes, whether it's food or a cure or a new technological advancement; anything like… — Renee Elise Goldsberry Copy Share Image
In Europe and the United States the two decades following the Second World War will for long be remembered as a very… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Here is a principle to use in all aspects of economics and policy. When you find a good or service that is… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
“Naturally, the type of dual economy articulated in Verwoerd’s speech is rather different from Lewis’s dual economy theory. In South Africa the… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
“Unlike sociology, a pariah science that is always under suspicion for its supposed political leanings, and from which the powerful expect nothing… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin... Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them but leave them the… — Josiah Stamp Copy Share Image
I am not an economic determinist. If I were, I would throw up my hands; I just would not bother. I think… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
“Some say it's wrong to profit from the misfortune of others. I ask my students whether they'd support a law against doing… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
There's no automatic mechanism in a market system that reconciles the desire to save and the desire to invest. And therefore, the… — Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky Copy Share Image
A natural way that an economist approaches a problem is to say, here's where I think the economy is going; this is… — Christina Romer Copy Share Image
The pendulum of economic power might well begin to shift from capital back to labor. — Stephen S. Roach Copy Share Image
“The economy is a test and measurement system, and it requires reliable learning guided by an accurate meter of monetary value.” — George Gilder Copy Share Image
Denmark is a small nation of five million people, but our economy is completely dependent on our commercial fleet. Every family has… — Tobias Lindholm Copy Share Image
Economists must always be prepared for surprises: they find many in trying to find order in the universe of their study. — Simon Kuznets Copy Share Image
Capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I was certain that I was not a Marxist, but I did believe firmly that a connection between economics and politics existed. — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
Biggest pent-up negative wealth effect you can see in the economic data going back to 1952. — Jan Hatzius Copy Share Image
Capitalism is a social cancer. It has always been a social cancer. It is the disease of society. It is the malignancy… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The essential point to grasp is that in dealing with capitalism we are dealing with an evolutionary process — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
Aggressive capitalism leads the world, and we can see the results, especially in Europe: more poverty for the vast majority, and more… — Costa-Gavras Copy Share Image
As much as the banking system may not be terribly popular, it is an essential part of the economy. — James P. Gorman Copy Share Image
We've reached the end of incrementalism. Only those companies that are capable of creating industry revolutions will prosper in the new economy. — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
An efficient economy does not perpetuate the misallocation of capital - it punishes it. — Barry Gardiner Copy Share Image
Somehow, when everything is too easy it's not necessarily the right recipe for success — Debbie Moore Copy Share Image
