Economics Quotes · Page 126

Improve your business, your life, your relationships, your finances and your health. When you do the whole world improves.

— Mark Victor Hansen

When I came up to Cambridge (in October 1921) to read economics, I did not have much idea of what it was about.

— Joan Robinson

In fact, Capitalism has a vested interest in creating new wants and making people unhappy until they acquire the next good.

— Philip Kotler

Everyone has an interest in the economy: in how it functions, how well it functions, and in whose interests it functions.

— Jim Stanford

Unless we increase our economy's productivity-its vitality and competitiveness-we will face pressure for increasing controls.

— Charles H. Percy

The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.

— Carlos Fuentes

The economic costs, the financial costs, the job losses, the income losses, the fiscal costs of bailing out financial system are becoming…

— Nouriel Roubini

If Comrade Bernie Sanders were to ever win the presidency, it's game over for our country, for our economy, for our future…

— Trish Regan

When a management with reputation for brilliance gets hooked up with a business with a reputation for bad economics, it's the reputation…

— Warren Buffett

We cannot have a full economic recovery, we cannot ensure the security of this country, while the states are in the midst…

— Bill Richardson

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition. History suggests that capitalism…

— Milton Friedman

A sure sign of a crisis is the prevalence of cranks. It is characteristic of a crisis in theory that cranks get…

— Joan Robinson

Capitalism means free enterprise, sovereignty of the consumers in economic matters, and sovereignty of the voters in political matters. Socialism means full…

— Ludwig von Mises

I am one of the most successful economists, according to what markets tell us, though most of my professional colleagues, who are…

— Ha-Joon Chang

“The only inexplicable aspect of the process was that economic theory (which is, after all, what economics students were supposed to know)…

— Michael Lewis

We need a world where people do not have to live in fear of the economic repercussions of getting sick or losing…

— Winnie Byanyima

“Homo economicus was surreptitiously taken as the emblem and analogue for all living beings. A mechanistic anthropomorphism has gained currency. Bacteria are…

— Ivan Illich

“Cockshott and Cottrell argue that improvements in computer power, together with the application of advanced maths and information theory removes, in principle,…

— Paul Mason

One cannot walk into an April day in a negative way. With spring, each man's plans and hopes result in new efforts,…

— Malcolm Forbes

“A wealth of research confirms the importance of face-to-face contact. One experiment performed by two researchers at the University of Michigan challenged…

— Edward L. Glaeser

Taking a look back, one big reqret is, I left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world.…

— Bill Gates

The difference between [socialism and fascism] is superficial and purely formal, but it is significant psychologically: it brings the authoritarian nature of…

— Ayn Rand

“...If you look at mainstream economics there are three things you will not find in a mainstream economic model - Banks, Debt,…

— Steve Keen

“The owner of the means of production is in a position to purchase the labor power of the worker. By using the…

— Albert Einstein

We have the worst revival of an economy since the Great Depression. And believe me: We're in a bubble right now.

— Donald Trump

Forget the economy. Just rewire your mentality. Then you'll create your own economy.

— Robin Sharma

With virtually no knowledge of or interest in history, the masses simply take their unprecedented high living standards under capitalism for granted.

— Ralph Raico

Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is…

— Thomas Sowell

Cryptoeconomics is so fascinating to study because it's a combination of technology, economics, and psychology.

— Nick Tomaino

I do understand the free market, having my economics degree, and if someone on the right had some good ideas, I'm not…

— Jay Roach

We have to build an economy that works for everyone, not just those at the top. That means we need new jobs,…

— Hillary Clinton

We have an economy that tells us that it is cheaper to destroy Earth in real time rather than renew, restore, and…

— Paul Hawken

“Oil may run out, liquidity may dry up, but as long as ink flows freely, the next chapter of Life will continue…

— Alex Morritt

Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.

— Daniel Kahneman

“This is the fly in the ointment of free-market capitalism. It cannot ensure that profits are gained in a fair way, or…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Everything reminds Milton Friedman of the money supply. Well, everything reminds me of sex, but I keep it out of the paper.

— Robert Solow

I'm a great believer in the Arsene Wenger school of management - which is, you don't worry about the opposition, you just…

— David Miliband

Next to bombing, rent control is the most effective technique so far known for destroying cities.

— Assar Lindbeck

The influence of culture and arts is much larger than the influence of economy sometimes.

— Park Won-soon

In an economy increasingly dominated by network effects, peer-to-peer transactions, self-regulation, and contract labor, the old frameworks are woefully irrelevant.

— Anand Giridharadas