Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right. — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
The more these readjustments are delayed ... the longer the depression will have to last, and the longer complete recovery is postponed. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually by governmental… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
You have to make the shift from being a consumer in the economy to becoming an owner-and you do it by becoming… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
The economy is in trouble, schools are in trouble, and people have been leaving the city in droves for a long, long… — Drew Carey Copy Share Image
We have to focus on how do we ensure the economy works for everybody, and not just a few. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I think the economics of this country is intricately linked to the politics of this country and the two cannot be separated. — Arvind Kejriwal Copy Share Image
The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“At the root of capitalism poverty one always finds unemployment and underemployment what Mark called the industrial reserve army which directly deprive… — SWEEZY Paul M. BARAN Paul A Copy Share Image
Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“For the same reason a disease cannot be cured by more of the germ that caused it, the inflation and debt accumulation… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Communism and socialism is [sic] seductive. It promises us that people will contribute according to ability and receive according to needs. Everybody… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
When you see a Jamaica video, it's always the hood. Everybody in the video's got guns, and the world looks at it… — Shaggy Copy Share Image
“There are a lot of things we all know that don't want to face. I hope you already know that. It will… — Richard D. Wolff Copy Share Image
I'm constantly being courted by labels and their backing. Obviously the market is there when you talk about the economics and the… — Brian McKnight Copy Share Image
I expect to see the State, which is in a position to calculate the marginal efficiency of capital-goods on long views and… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“Some economic inequality critics go further and contend that there comes a point at which inequality undermines progress—and, by and large, they… — Don Watkins Copy Share Image
“Most people learn their trade – almost always farming – from their parents or village communities. Industrialization changed all that. People had… — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
Let’s begin with capitalism, a word that has gone largely out of fashion. The approved reference now is to the market system.… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Experts kill me. Economic experts, that is. Corporations, foundations, publications and governments pay them by the bucketful, and they fill buckets with… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
Why, when the economist gives advice to his society, is he so often cooly ignored? He never ceases to preach free trade,… — George Stigler Copy Share Image
People at the top spend less money than those at the bottom so when you have redistribution toward the top, aggregate demand… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Most of America's leading entrepreneurs are bound to the masts of their fortunes. They are allowed to keep their wealth only as… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Advertising is the foot on the accelerator, the hand on the throttle, the spur on the flank that keeps our economy surging… — Robert W. Sarnoff Copy Share Image
Beethoven and Michelangelo, who sold their artworks for profit, were entrepreneurs and capitalists. — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
It’s not about revenues: the fundamental economics in digital business is scale and margins. The top line has become the bottom line. — Yuri Milner Copy Share Image
Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Studies in Australia have verified this drain on the economy by video gambling machines — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
In todays uncertain economy, the safest solution to be wealthy, be in total control and enjoy freedom for you and your family… — Robert G. Allen Copy Share Image
“A crucial part of the modern capitalist economy was the emergence of a new ethic, according to which profits ought to be… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The laws of normal economics dictate that lower taxes combined with increased spending will lead to bigger deficits. — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Economics departments are dominated by Marxism, which is taken straight or on the rocks, in the form of Keynesianism. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome. — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
“If you don't have a whole lot of unsatisfied people, the economy stops dead, doesn't it?” — Andy Couturier Copy Share Image
“In the digital economy, if you can't be trusted you have no business doing business.” — Bernard Kelvin Clive Copy Share Image
“As the old Russian joke goes, capitalism was the exploitation of man by man, whereas communism was the reverse.” — J.M.R. Higgs Copy Share Image
People talk about "job creation," as if that had ever been the aim the industrial economy. The aim was to replace people… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
There is, therefore, no solution possible other than an economy directed by the workers through their organisations of control-through the workers' syndicates. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Rising carbon price is essential to 'decarbonize' the economy - to remove the nation towards the era beyond fossil fuels. — James Hansen Copy Share Image