Whole new businesses will emerge around breakthrough products as revolutionary technologies accelerate capitalism's creative destruction of slower industries. — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
If ever again our nation stumbles upon unfunded paper, it shall surely be like death to our body politic. This country will… — George Washington Copy Share Image
If an economy in the doldrums could drift indefinitely, the price of government inaction might be graver by far than the consequences… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Only after people express their anger and sadness over the broken dreams of material prosperity will they turn to the task of… — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists. — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The 'private sector' of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and the 'public sector' is, in fact, the coercive sector. — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“At the dawn of the nineteenth century, many parts of the world, especially in Africa, lacked a state that could provide even… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
We have for the first time an economy based on a key resource [Information] that is not only renewable, but self- generating.… — John Naisbitt Copy Share Image
“In a system of full capitalism, there should be (but, historically, has not yet been) a complete separation of state and economics,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Even if the crises that are looming up are overcome and a new run of prosperity lies ahead, deeper problems will still… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
“I have called it a Great Splintering, not purely an economic phenomenon, but a social one: an era where social contracts are… — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
Physical infrastructure remains important (particularly in developing nations), but concurrently investing in the development of a knowledge-based economy is essential to sustaining… — Khalid A. Al-Falih Copy Share Image
Liberal economists conceive of societies as black boxes connected by exchange rates; as long as exchange rates are correct, what goes on… — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
“Economics is the tool we hide behind today in order to justify an abhorrent track record of abuses of human rights and… — Steve Carlsson Copy Share Image
There was a time traditionally - say, GM in the 1950s - it was trying to develop a consumer base that would… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Schmidt agreed at the Bonn summit of world industrial leaders, in July 1978, to increase Germany’s budget deficit. The Bonn summit was… — Bernard Connolly Copy Share Image
“Why do we need so many people on Earth? I ask you. What are they good for? They live out ludicrous lives… — David Marusek Copy Share Image
“Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man. This is no accident. The inherent difficulties of the… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“...the centrality of competitiveness as the key to growth is a recurrent EU motif. Two decades of EC directives on increasing competition… — Mark Blyth Copy Share Image
“Europe’s war against debtor countries was turning into class war, which always ends up being waged on the political battlefield. One financial… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Thirty years ago, if you said the country was living beyond its means, people would have thought about economics. Now, if you… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
The economy and its dismal status is the result of policy decisions that Obama has made and put into place. It's not… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
We don't sit down and go, 'People are uneasy about the economy. Let's write about that.' — Chester Bennington Copy Share Image
History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I think the biggest challenge and the biggest uncertainty for everyone is the economy. — Don Iveson Copy Share Image
If Black and African-Americans could participate in our economy at the same level that others do, it'd be a boost to GDP… — Doug McMillon Copy Share Image
Economic theorists should not make such a production about taking a rabbit out of a hat after having put the rabbit into… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
“Prohibitionism violates the fundamental law of market economy, which led to the emergence of a thriving shadow economy.” — Jeffrey Dhywood Copy Share Image
What makes for the good society is a sound economy. Without it, all the rest falls apart. — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
We girls should have to change a tire or take a 'change your oil' class in high school instead of taking home… — Teri Hatcher Copy Share Image
In modern capitalism economic exploitation rather than political oppression is the real enemy of the people. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Agriculture is one economic activity that does not obey the laws of demand and supply. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Local economies are suffering as people spend more on fuel and less on consumer goods and travel. — Dan Lipinski Copy Share Image
“Costs have so consistently outpaced inflation that we now spend one out of every seven dollars the economy produces on health care” — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
The primary reason for a tariff is that it enables the exploitation of the domestic consumer by a process indistinguishable from sheer… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
You're seeing the first communist-produced automobile coming in to the U.S.. What I'm going to run on is a rebirth of capitalism. — John Raese Copy Share Image
If the government can't get the economy moving again, they have a lot of fundamental problems. — David Wessel Copy Share Image
A green economy begins to replace some of the clunking and chugging of ugly machines with the wise effort of beautiful, skilled… — Van Jones Copy Share Image