If we didn't have greed, market economies wouldn't be as innovative as they are. But in my view, greed has to be… — Nouriel Roubini Copy Share Image
In general, presidents and congressmen have very limited power to do good for the economy and awesome power to do bad. The… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
There are many ways to create economic suicide on a national level. The major way through history has been through indebting the… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
A private enterprise system needs some measuring rod, it needs something, it needs money to make its transactions. You can't run a… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“The real question is: How sturdy and solid is the floor our civilization stands on? How many lives with no prospects, shattered… — Christa Wolf Copy Share Image
Amid all the revolutions of the globe, the economy of Nature has been uniform, ... and her laws are the only things… — John Playfair Copy Share Image
The real struggle between an American government and the people was one of power, which was settled when they designed their Constitution,… — Ndabaningi Sithole Copy Share Image
I think companies trying to exercise a so-called inversion should be hit with an exit tax. So I want to change behaviors,… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
When I consider the multitude of associated forces which are diffused through nature - when I think of that calm balancing of… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
The de industrialization of the US. economy based on the migration of corporations into third world areas where labor is very cheap… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Virtually, Finnish woods are stripped so bare, so sold out and first and foremost, so long way off from genuine diverse natural… — Pentti Linkola Copy Share Image
What does cookery mean? It means the knowledge of Medea and of Circe, and of Calypso, and Sheba. It means knowledge of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I think the Tata Group's greatest contribution to the growth of the Indian economy and Indian industry probably happened in the pre-independence… — Ratan Tata Copy Share Image
Any money the government spends must be taxed, borrowed or conjured out of thin air by the Federal Reserve, and that will… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
I had the good fortune to direct my first professional production with one of my Dad's masterpieces, The Man Who Came To… — Chris Hart Copy Share Image
Anybody interested in solving, rather than profiting from, the problems of food production and distribution will see that in the long run… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Establishing a 0.03 percent Wall Street speculation fee, similar to what we had from 1914-1966, would dampen the dangerous level of speculation… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Gone are the days when the upper classes were terrified of the angry mob wanting to smash their skulls and confiscate their… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
Before the 1970s, banks were banks. They did what banks were supposed to do in a state capitalist economy: they took unused… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Could there be anything resembling a free enterprise economy, if wealth and property were concentrated in the hands of a few, while… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
People think of a business cycle, which is a boom followed by a recession and then automatic stabilizers revive the economy. But… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
We are a small, open economy, highly dependent on global flows. It is inevitably a demand that dramatically alters and that is… — John Key Copy Share Image
The fund scandals shined the spotlight on the fact that mutual fund managers were putting their interests ahead of the fund shareholders… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
What counts is results, and there can be no doubt that the Soviet planning system has been a powerful engine for economic… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
I believe that when we have millions of hard-working immigrants contributing to our economy, it would be self-defeating and inhumane to try… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurial freedom and funding of potentially good businesses will certainly increase the number of wealthy Indians, create employment and have some cascading… — Sucheta Dalal Copy Share Image
Whenever I study a genre of film-making, Steve Spielberg is the first guy I go to. Even Catch Me If You Can,… — Tim Matheson Copy Share Image
Many people in the world believe that in the 21st century, the Asia-Pacific - Asia in particular - will play a more… — Li Keqiang Copy Share Image
During my travels in Iraq, Israel, Gaza, Brazil, Indonesia, Japan, Europe and all over the United States, I have seen and heard… — Michael Franti 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
The prison-industrial complex employs millions of people directly and indirectly. Judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, prison guards, construction companies that build prisons, police,… — Michelle Alexander 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
I don't want the United States to be in a global economy where our economic future is bound to that of Zimbabwe.… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
GM is pursuing gasoline-savings solutions on many fronts on the way to our ultimate vision of hydrogen fuel cell-powered transportation. E85 ethanol… — Joseph Lowery 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
Here is a humanist proposition for the age of Google: The processing of information is not the highest aim to which the… — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
Had there been any existent vital and energetic institution left in Society after the Reformation for the use of small property in… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
People are only mean when they're threatened… and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does. Even people who have… — Morrie Schwartz Copy Share Image
I think it's hard to understand in economics. It's easier to understand on psychology.It's a kind of panic or a sense that… — David Wessel Copy Share Image
People have to struggle to live and, frequently, to live in an undignified way. One cause of this situation, in my opinion,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image