Economics Quotes · Page 140

What matters in the new economy is not return on investment, but return on imagination

— Gary Hamel

Naturally we are aware of the strength of our economy and naturally we don't want to downplay it.

— Gerhard Schroder

There is no more certain way to deter employment than to harass and penalize employers.

— Henry Hazlitt

The American economy has been built and sustained by risk-taking entrepreneurs whose pioneering ideas and hard work gave birth to flourishing businesses.

— Mike Pence

For the next three years, we're going to see different economies work out different problems. For European economies, especially Greece, it would…

— Mohamed El-Erian

Economic growth tends to require the taking of resources from the Earth. So something has to change on a debt-based economy.

— Gail Bradbrook

According to the Institute for International Economics, trade barriers cost American consumers $80 billion a year or more than $1,200 per family.

— Walter E. Williams

The idea of a non-growing economy may be an anathema to an economist. But the idea of a continually growing economy is…

— Tim Jackson

Positive economics is in principle independent of any particular ethical position or normative judgment...In short, positive economics is or can be an…

— Milton Friedman

If you say "the economy," you show you're stupid. There's no such thing as the economy. There is not a unity between…

— Christopher Hitchens

Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers…

— Anonymous

However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that…

— Garrett Hardin

Capitalism designates an economic system significantly characterized by the predominance of "capital." Capitalism and double entry bookkeeping are absolutely indissociable; their relationship…

— Werner Sombart

It is certain that many intellectuals envy the higher income of prosperous businessmen and that these feelings drive them toward socialism. They…

— Ludwig von Mises

The problems of the global economy are not based in perception, but in the reality of prices, balance sheets and income statements,…

— Charles Hugh Smith

Because economics is all about optimising, doing the best you can with what you have - it's usually the first place you…

— Emily Oster

“Everybody looks at oil and almost entirely forget that the percentage of jobs the oil sector creates is relatively small compared to…

— Emi Iyalla

“While there are certainly informational spillovers as ideas move from person to person, it is hard to see why in most instances…

— Michele Boldrin

So many people are living their lives out in an illusion. The illusion is that everything they know and perceive to be…

— Jeremy Limn

What made traditional economies so radically different and so very fundamentally dangerous to Western economies were the traditional principles of prosperity of…

— Rebecca Adamson

It took the national debt two hundred years to reach $1 trillion. Supply Side Economics quadrupled the national debt to over $4…

— Ed Schultz

“What the hell’s the matter with you men? Are you cowards as well as stupid? You boys make me sick. I’m done…

— Jerry Ash

“The world has a very serious problem, my friend' Shiva went on. 'Poor children still die by their millions. Westerners and the…

— Ramez Naam

“Capitalism has come, not only to serve Britain's purpose by keeping the people divided, but, by setting worker against worker, it has…

— Michael Collins

Government interference with the economic process represents a substitution of political for consumer objectives.

— Sheldon Richman

We are paying a heavy political price for 20 years in which, as a party, we have played down our criticism of…

— Tony Benn

Trickle-down economics does not work, and tax reform should not be defined as partisan tax cuts for the wealthy and huge corporations.

— Jacky Rosen

For now, capitalism is working to produce more money but does not see the people. This problem is getting worse across the…

— Lech Walesa

Capitalism is not a perfect system. It may be better than all the other systems, but it's not a perfect system.

— Howard Warren Buffett

If you grow that economy, you increase the tax base, you increase the revenue that you can spend on anti-poverty measures.

— Humza Yousaf

If you get the government off our back, there's no economy in the world that can create more jobs in the long-term…

— Ryan Zinke

After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.

— Calvin Coolidge

When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.

— Milton Friedman

Try writing an entire story with only a thousand words at your disposal. It’s a terrific lesson in economy and precession.

— Darynda Jones

Games are work. There are economies popping up in games now because people value them.

— Jane McGonigal

Militarism. . . is the chief bulwark of capitalism. When it is that militarism is undermined, capitalism will fail.

— Helen Keller

We need to invest in our people and a livable planet if we want to build an economy that works for everyone.

— Jamaal Bowman

Our government is a bird with two right wings... They're devoted to the perpetuation & spread of corporate capitalism.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Economics as a discipline has in effect become the study of capitalism. The two are taken as the same subject.

— John Lanchester

Making films take a lot of intelligence and is tough, though achieving Economics honours is tough, too.

— Parineeti Chopra