Economics Quotes · Page 114

I think economics, content, and the ability to interact with content in new and different ways are what will drive the adoption…

— Tom Peters

We are seeing the birth of a new perspective of the world, where ecology and economics are two sides of the same…

— Leif Johansson

If people understood how the economic system works, there'd be a revolution in a minute.

— Henry Ford

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it…

— Mark Twain

The strong economy means there is fiscal firepower and we need to use that to show people the benefits of the free-market…

— Matt Hancock

Can there be a more lamentable picture than that of a Chancellor of the Exchequer seated on an empty chest by a…

— Robert Peel

The end does not justify the means. No one's rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others.

— Ayn Rand

As I constantly remind Canadians, there isnt really a Canadian economy anymore. It is a global economy.

— Stephen Harper

Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment,…

— Arthur Erickson

Let's be clear about one indisputable fact: capitalism vigorously pursued has never produced the atrocities - starvation, tyranny, and genocide - that…

— Donald J. Boudreaux

Repeal the entire Banking Act of 1933, and Austrian School economists will cheer, especially if the current system were replaced by a…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

You have to understand, we have better communications and better transportation, so people know what's available elsewhere and can get a message…

— Michael Bloomberg

Nothing has done more to render modern economic theory a sterile and irrelevant exercise in autoeroticism than its practitioners’ obsession with mathematical,…

— Robert Higgs

Martin Luther King was talking about racism, war and poverty. I think we have made progress enormous progress in racism and war,…

— Andrew Young

“The computers were index-linked to the Galactic stock-market prices, you see, so that we’d all be revived when everybody else had rebuilt…

— Douglas Adams

Much of economics isn't difficult, or rather, the difficulty is in cooking up arguments to "prove" that commonsense conclusions are wrong. The…

— Jerry Pournelle

What is the use of freedom of the press if the government is in possession of all the printing presses, what does…

— Eugen Richter

When the study of the household (ecology) and the management of the household (economics) can be merged, and when ethics can be…

— Eugene Odum

The calculative exactness of practical life which the money economy has brought about corresponds to the ideal of natural science: to transform…

— Georg Simmel

First reason is, it's not authorized in the Constitution, it's an illegal institution. The second reason, it's an immoral institution, because we…

— Ron Paul

We have to accept that capitalism is coming to an end. We can't provide paid employment for people, all the industries with…

— Irvine Welsh

What is left that only the family can do? According to the new economy - nothing. The leading view today is 'It…

— Oliver DeMille

Our domestic problems are for the most part economic. We have our enormous debt to pay, and we are paying it. We…

— Calvin Coolidge

We have to deal with issues like inequality, we have deal with issues of economic dislocation, we have to deal with peoples…

— Barack Obama

The bourgeois takes economic power very seriously, and often worships it quite unselfishly.

— Nikolai Berdyaev

No economic measure has more value for a nation than investing in a clean & sustainable low carbon future

— Phil Harding

In order to address world economic imbalances, countries around the world should make joint efforts to adjust their economic structure.

— Hu Jintao

Black money is a cancer in our economic system, not yet terminal or life-threatening.

— Subramanian Swamy

Nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog.

— Anonymous

Nothing in our Constitution suggests that government is a grantor of rights. Instead, government is a protector of rights.

— Walter E. Williams

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen.

— Earl Wilson

The people who make a difference are not the ones with the credentials but the ones with the concern.

— Max Lucado

“Investments in larger systems of economic, environmental, and social support produce health and support individuals’ quest for well-being.”

— Elizabeth H. Bradley

There is talk of the failure of socialism, and where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia, and in Latin America?

— Fidel Castro

If the present economic structure can change only by collapsing, then it had better collapse as soon as possible.

— Germaine Greer

An economist is a man who knows a hundred ways of making love but doesn't know any women.

— Art Buchwald

Power that controls the economy should be in the hands of elected representatives of the people instead of an industrial oligarchy

— William O. Douglas

We can't do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves,

— Banksy

If you doubt that we live in a winner-take-all economy and that education is the trump card, consider the vast amounts the…

— Chrystia Freeland

Looking back, I should have pursued philosophy and economics and things of that sort in college more, but I didn't.

— Dan Quayle