Economics Quotes · Page 107

By definition, design, and practice, capitalism is a system that concentrates economic power in the hands of the few to the exclusion…

— Anita Roddick

Economics was the only profession where a person could be considered an expert without having once been right.

— George Meany

Lunches don't get free just because you don't see the prices on the menu. And economists don't get popular by reminding people…

— Thomas Sowell

We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance.

— Arthur Capper

When people are healthy and not hungry, they are stronger workers building a robust economy.

— Charles B. Rangel

I had the offer of places at Leicester and Loughborough to study financial economics.

— Chris Smalling

Crack the science of loyalty at scale for local business, and that becomes something that can add a huge amount of value…

— Seth Priebatsch

We are at this weird moment where there's an economic model that supports creativity. People are demanding something new and fresh.

— Judd Apatow

I have yet to meet the famous Rational Economic Man theorists describe. Real people have always done inexplicable things from time to…

— Anonymous

Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which…

— E. F. Schumacher

Cutting carbon in the supply chain is the next critical stage in the business contribution to reduce carbon emissions to tackle climate…

— Tom DeLay

In the long run men inevitably become the victims of their wealth. They adapt their lives and habits to their money, not…

— Herbert Croly

How did the economy produce all these amazing things that we have around us - computers and cell phones and so on?…

— Tim Harford

We've all heard about Wall Street greed. I think people are now starting to be a little bit more sensitized to Washington…

— Jeb Hensarling

I think the association of economics with forecasting is unfortunate and is down to the fact that one great way to get…

— Tim Harford

Under Ronald Reagan in the United States and Margaret Thatcher in the U.K., there was a rewriting of the basic rules of…

— Joseph Stiglitz

There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility. Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities…

— Ludwig von Mises

Now there are heavy houses everywhere and more of them are being built. In fact, it is only when more houses are…

— Alice Walker

Many of the deficiencies of our economic system could be alleviated if ways were found to broaden the ownership of the means…

— John D. Rockefeller

One other thing: at the meeting in Canada, [there was] the coup in Fiji. This comes to an important part of the…

— Bob Hawke

Today the logic goes something like this: 'Calling a ruler Son of God is out of style. No one really does that…

— Shane Claiborne

What I have learned about corporate capitalism, roughly, is that it is an act of theft, by and large, through which a…

— Karl Hess

Feudalism is an economic system where a few people own all the land and the others have no option but to be…

— Thomas Pogge

The effort of the economist is to "see," to picture the interplay of economic elements. The more clearly cut these elements appear…

— Irving Fisher

While the people are drowning in debt, the capitalists are drowning in profits that they've expropriated from the masses.

— Anonymous

I'm double majoring in social studies - which is sociology, anthropology, economics, and philosophy - and African-American studies.

— Yara Shahidi

“Don't count on the economy to producenew jobs; you've got to produce them yourselves.”

— Angus Reid

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

— Fidel Castro

That's how we build the economy of the future. An economy with more jobs and less debt, we root it in fairness.…

— Elizabeth Warren

Governments don't control things. A government can't control the economy without controlling people.

— Ronald Reagan

The reason our economic crisis has been forestalled is the reason there will be an economic crisis.

— James Cook

Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.

— Lionel Charles Robbins

In a perfect world we don't want to be overly dependent on any single asset or be so dependent on the cycle…

— James Packer

“Some economists have estimated that the NRA boosted the cost of doing business by an average of 40 percent — not something…

— Lawrence W. Reed

It is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone, particularly in economics.

— John Maynard Keynes

We're so interdependent, and what one country does is such an important part of what happens in the global economy.

— Alan Mulally

Capitalism will continue to eliminate mass poverty in more and more places and to an increasingly marked extent if it is merely…

— Henry Hazlitt

One of the biggest lies in capitalism is that companies like competition. They don't. Nobody likes competition.

— Eliot Spitzer

When women breached the power structure in the 1980s?two economies finally merged. Beauty was no longer just a symbolic form of currency:…

— Naomi Wolf

If you knew what was going to happen in the economy, you still wouldn't necessarily know what was going to happen in…

— Warren Buffett