Economics Quotes · Page 102

One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.

— Milton Friedman

It struck me that favourable variations would tend to be preserved and unfavourable ones tend to be destroyed

— Charles Darwin

When it gets into these spikes, with shortages and uproar and so forth, people go bananas, but that's capitalism.

— Charlie Munger

Servile labour disappeared because it could not stand the competition of free labour; its un-profitability sealed its doom in the market economy.

— Ludwig von Mises

All have used the economic opportunity of a new arena project to transform their cities into the future.

— Gary Bettman

Pledge allegiance to your principles, your family, your faith, but don't be foolish enough to pledge allegiance to a gang of thieves.

— Llewellyn Rockwell

In economic terms, a kiss is a commodity for which demand is always higher than supply

— Anonymous

“How you think and create your inner world that you gonna become in your outer world. Your inner believe manifest you in…

— Rashedur Ryan Rahman

We [with Donald Trump] just have a different view about what's best for growing the economy, how we make investments that will…

— Hillary Clinton

We're supposed to live under capitalism, and capitalism is supposed to be competitive so you would expect that capitalists and entrepreneurs would…

— David Harvey

This dilettante notion that the global economy is evil because big corporate leaders make too much money... they do make too much…

— Joe Klein

Let us build a 21st-century rural economy of cutting-edge companies and technologies that lead us to energy and food security. Such an…

— Tom Vilsack

The first rule of economics is that there is an infinite number of desires chasing a finite number of goods, services and…

— Thomas Sowell

Economics taught in most of the elite universities are practically useless in my context. My country is dominated by drug economy and…

— Ashraf Ghani

Tariffs, government contracts, naval and military spending, nationalized industries, tax policy, social welfare, the legal privileging of labor unions were among the…

— Ralph Raico

Without commonly shared and widely entrenched moral values and obligations, neither the law, nor democratic government, nor even the market economy will…

— Vaclav Havel

When we hear (as we sometimes do) that (Russia's) economic output is about half the level of a decade ago or that…

— Margaret Thatcher

It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics. Why? Because discrimination, poverty and…

— William J. Clinton

“The issue of false consciousness is a genuinely difficult problem that has no definite solution. We should not approve of an unequal…

— Ha-Joon Chang

Getting the economy back on its feet is properly viewed as an investment in future prosperity. When businesses and consumers confront attractive…

— Robert H. Frank

Since the global financial crisis and recession of 2007-2009, criticism of the economics profession has intensified. The failure of all but a…

— Robert J. Shiller

In the model that we grew up with, governments rule physical territory in which national economies function, and strong economies support hegemonic…

— Amory Lovins

“But a progressive policy needs more than just a bigger break with the economic and moral assumptions of the past 30 years.…

— Eric Hobsbawm

“Our entire system, in an economic sense, is based on restriction. Scarcity and inefficiency are the movers of money; the more there…

— Peter Joseph

China is crippling our manufacturing economy and eliminating our jobs by illegally flooding our markets.

— Virginia Foxx

“Only one thing can allow a business to transcend the daily brute struggle for survival: monopoly profits.”

— Peter Thiel

Stop-Go seemed more sensiblr than using the brake and accelerator at the same time - a practice that later became fashionable.

— Harold MacMillan

You can buy a person's hands but you can't buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is.

— Stephen Covey

Men will look back in amusement at the pretence that once caused people to refer to General Dynamics and North American Aviation…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of…

— Barry Ritholtz

“Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.”

— Ludwig von Mises

The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.

— David Korten

I really am enjoying my economics class, but I think my favorite course has to be history.

— Molly Quinn

I want to talk about jobs, the economy, foreclosures. I want to talk about energy prices.

— Dean Heller

We are strong believers in the growth prospects of the Indonesian economy, its positive consumer demographic trends and the growth of its…

— Haim Saban

Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“Raising interest rates is voo-doo. You can't deal with a global system problem by trying to solve it with this.”

— Stafford Beer

Anything that drags down the American economy drags the Canadian economy down with it.

— John Ibbitson

When it's well managed, migration works in the national interest, for our communities, economy and country.

— Priti Patel

“Like Hitler, like Stalin, the énarque believes that power will always prevail over economics.”

— Bernard Connolly