On one project I was hanging out with Brad Pitt, and Ryan Gosling, and Steve Carrel, and Christian Bale, and trying to… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
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I have kids in high school that don't know how to balance a checkbook. We need to have that fundamental understanding of… — Linda McMahon Copy Share Image
The U.S. should take notes: Government overspending and a campaign of alienating investors and small business isn't really the best way to… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
“per capita incomes scarcely changed; the new production was absorbed in supporting an increasing population. This was not economic growth. The economy… — Edward A. Hudson Copy Share Image
Provided that societies stay mindful of the challenges that capitalism creates and never forget the paramount importance of inclusion and equal opportunity,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I've been writing a book called The Economics of Innocent Fraud. I published part of it already in The Progressive ("Free Market… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Good economic theory must give the people the chance to use their talents to build their own lives. We must get away… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
With the old economics destroyed, organizational forms perfected for industrial production have to be replaced with structures optimized for digital data. It… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
“The social-political future of the United States is one of domination by vast economic interests devoted to ideals of material gain, aimless… — S.T. Joshi Copy Share Image
A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful moneymaker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example. A… — Robert Menzies Copy Share Image
I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic. And yet I am not… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In an economy, an act, a habit, an institution, or a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
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This new economy that's just emerged has a new central economic actor. It's not the worker, the person who produces, nor the… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
I also want to raise the possibility that there are, in the very long term, "virtue effects" in economics- for instance that… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Our main source of economy is agriculture. What we should do is to use the oil money that we have today to… — Salva Kiir Mayardit Copy Share Image
I was quite depressed two weeks ago when I spent an afternoon at Brentano's Bookshop in New York and was looking at… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Forward thinking companies that adapt positively to the sustainable business agenda will be at the forefront of resource productivity, reducing waste and… — Michael Meacher Copy Share Image
The main achievement of economics is that it has provided a theory of peaceful human cooperation. This is why the harbingers of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I believe that you have to understand the economics of a business before you have a strategy, and you have to understand… — Michael Dell Copy Share Image
Historically, corporate aversion to politics has at times held firm even under national leadership that threatens the health of the economy, and… — James B. Stewart Copy Share Image
As the Wall Street Journal called our economic plan, supply-side economics for the working man, is resonating in Minnesota and here in… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
We have a choice: we can allow the growing disparity between rich and poor to continue unimpeded, or we can take action… — Jan Schakowsky Copy Share Image
The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of… — Mitch Daniels Copy Share Image
Our region's economy was built upon their entrepreneurial spirit, and our economy still depends on the continued success of the enterprises they… — Doc Hastings Copy Share Image
[A] private property regime makes people responsible for their own actions in the realm of material goods. Such a system therefore ensures… — Tom Bethell Copy Share Image
It is almost as hard to define mathematics as it is to define economics, and one is tempted to fall back on… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
One of the major forces driving the decline in wages and the concentration of wealth at the top is the offshoring of… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“Creativity tempered by sound judgment is the currency of the new economy. It remains largely an open playing field for anyone who… — Ken Goldstein Copy Share Image
I have been gradually coming under the conviction, disturbing for a professional theorist, that there is no such thing as economics -… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
We (British) have reached the state where the private sector is that part of the economy the government controls and the public… — James Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Apart from their work and production, households perform other important economic functions. Most CONSUMPTION occurs within the household. ... In developed capitalist… — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image
The world is a global economy. I thought, 'It's a bummer we don't have a unifying currency.' Then I saw Bitcoin had… — Adam Draper Copy Share Image
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