Economics Quotes · Page 134

“Buffett said he pays no attention to economic outlooks. His decisions are based simply on intrinsic business values. Interestingly,”

— Daniel Pecaut

The whole economy would be much healthier if it would transition to an asset-based economy rather than a credit-based one.

— Rick Joyner

You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.

— Terry Eagleton

Waiting for supply-side economics to work is like leaving the landing lights on for Amelia Earhart.

— Anonymous

“transformation begins with the individual” Dr William Edwards Deming The New Economics - 1993”

— Priyavrat Thareja

When your economy is kind of ooching along, it's important to let people have more of their own money.

— George W. Bush

I can't see the future, but it's grim. The depletion of resources - we're living in this dine-and-dash economy.

— Stephen King

Economic policies need to be analyzed in terms of the incentives they create, rather than the hopes that inspired them.

— Thomas Sowell

The fundamental idea of modern capitalism is not the right of the individual to possess and enjoy what he has earned, but…

— Anonymous

In a healthy economy, empowering, sustaining and efficiency innovations operate in balance. A healthy economy creates and sustains more jobs before squeezing…

— Clayton M. Christensen

“Housework, handicrafts, subsistence agriculture, radical technology, learning exchanges, and the like are degraded into activities for the idle, the unproductive, the very…

— Ivan Illich

A very complicated mass of things influences the economy - the speculative effect, government policy, consumer borrowing and spending, the level of…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The family is the first economy. If the family breaks down, well, government gets bigger because of the consequences of family breakdown.…

— Rick Santorum

In short, the early receivers of the new money in this market chain of events gain at the expense of those who…

— Murray Rothbard

“Today almost any person has a present time problem, growing more pressing as time goes on and as our society evolves. It…

— L. Ron Hubbard

A country's economic growth may be defined as a long-term rise in capacity to supply increasingly diverse economic goods to its population,…

— Simon Kuznets

It's clear that there has to be some play between the vitality of invention in economic life and some regulation of it,…

— Robert Hass

“A conscience that is forbidden to operate in the choice of goals for economic activity is not conscience in the sense in…

— Lesslie Newbigin

Government, on their part, are much disposed to favor the establishment of these large companies, and to give them privileges to the…

— Antoine Destutt de Tracy

Today if you look at most economic textbooks, economics is not defined by subject matter. It's presented as a science of social…

— Michael Sandel

When the rate of return on capital exceeds the rate of growth of output and income, as it did in the nineteenth…

— Thomas Piketty

This kind of inequality - a level we haven't seen since the Great Depression - hurts us all. When middle-class families can…

— Barack Obama

“Pope Francis I, denouncing “an economy of exclusion,” has made inequality a centerpiece of his reign: Just as the commandment “Thou shalt…

— David Cay Johnston

Impotence therefore faces both those who believe in what amounts to a pure, stateless, market capitalism, a sort of international bourgeois anarchism,…

— Eric Hobsbawm

Not understanding the process of a spontaneously-ordered economy goes hand-in-hand with not understanding the creation of resources and wealth.

— Julian Simon

Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, but it cannot so be disposed of.

— Henry David Thoreau

Economy has frequently nothing whatever to do with the amount of money being spent, but with the wisdom used in spending it.

— Henry Ford

Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.

— Thomas Paine

I am proud to support the incredible economics department at the University of Chicago.

— Kenneth C. Griffin

I'm a capitalist, and I believe that universal basic income is necessary for capitalism to continue.

— Andrew Yang

We are ignorant of what it is we do not know even though we know more than we can ever say

— G. L. S. Shackle

President Obama insists he's a free-market guy. But you have to wonder whether he understands how a free economy really works.

— Fred Barnes

If your corn has a herbicide-tolerant gene, it means you can pray your herbicides and kill the weeds; you won't kill your…

— Jeremy Rifkin

You don't see black people winning Nobel prizes for physics or economics or any of the industries or institutions that shape the…

— Kerry James Marshall

Public space is for living, doing business, kissing, and playing. Its value can't be measured with economics or mathematics; it must be…

— Enrique Penalosa

We want capitalism and market forces to be the slave of democracy rather than the opposite.

— Thomas Piketty

Pursuing economic sustainability by creating a virtuous cycle of growth and distribution is the kind of new capitalism that I am aiming…

— Fumio Kishida

If economists were good at business, they would be rich men instead of advisers to rich men.

— Kirk Kerkorian

It's not a choice between our environment and our economy; it's a choice between prosperity and decline.

— Barack Obama

I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last…

— Seth Godin