Economists get very uncomfortable when you talk about virtue and vice. It doesn't lend itself to a lot of columns with numbers.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
You know, whatever it takes. It's very important obviously from an economic point of view because of the need for innovation, for… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
I was at the World Bank and a commission reviewed our work on inequality for the U.S. Congress or somebody, and the… — Branko Milanovic Copy Share Image
The system of capitalism, of the market economy, is a system of freedom, of justice, of productivity. But these three virtues cannot… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I believe that our economy is not a one- or two-percent growth economy; I believe it can grow at four percent, and… — Cyril Ramaphosa Copy Share Image
“In the late Middle Ages the stupefying simplicity of the heliocentric model was used as an argument to discredit the new astronomy.… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Making the most of global trade opportunities does not mean transitioning to a low-tax, deregulatory, 'Bargain Basement' economy. It means developing a… — Barry Gardiner Copy Share Image
The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I've been a faithful reader of the great classical documents of economics, or tried to be. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
... it's important to have the right monetary policy. It's important for, to have the right fiscal policy. But it's nowhere near… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Through argument and example, we must show that Corbyn's hard left socialism will destroy business - the engine at the heart of… — Anna Soubry Copy Share Image
I think that Capitalism, wisely managed, can probably be made more efficient for attaining economic ends than any alternative system yet in… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
But clearly an economy that's growing and expanding like this one - and it certainly is doing that with high GDP output,… — John W. Snow Copy Share Image
You have the economic vocabulary turning into vocabulary of deception. — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
We are endeavoring, too, to reduce the government to the practice of a rigorous economy, to avoid burdening the people, and arming… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, On the one hand on the other. — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
The basic confrontation which seemed to be colonialism versus anti-colonialism, indeed capitalism versus socialism, is already losing its importance. What matters today,… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
I think that capitalism in general is responsible, not for the worldwide recession, but for a lot of suffering, both in the… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
American influence in the world is certainly considerable, but the United States does not control, directly or indirectly, the politics and economics… — Michael Mandelbaum Copy Share Image
“In a world where the great questions have been solved and geopolitics has been subordinated to economics, humanity will look a lot… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In the vast library of socialist theory, and in all of Marx’s compendious works, there is not a chapter devoted to the… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
I know. You know I know. I know you know I know. We know Henry knows and Henry knows we know it.… — James Goldman Copy Share Image
“Fundamentally, there are only two ways of co-ordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion—the… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The idea that human kind can shape the world according to wish is what I call the fatal conceit — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The concept of loss aversion is certainly the most significant contribution of psychology to behavioral economics. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Capitalism has improved the standard of living of the wage earners to an unprecedented extent. The average American family enjoys today amenities… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
There's no free lunch. If you want an industrial economy, you need energy. If you want energy, it will produce pollution. You… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“The social system of capital separates most people from the conditions of existence. This compels the vast majority to accept the mediations… — Wolfi Landstreicher Individualism and Communism Copy Share Image
“The risk-bearing role of the rich cannot be performed so well by anyone else. The benefits of capitalism still depend on capitalists.… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
The narrative related to economics is, I think, very well understood even by the common man. — Nirmala Sitharaman Copy Share Image
In the West, the basic economic and social unit is the individual; in Africa, it is the extended family or the collective. — George Ayittey Copy Share Image
In the long run, outsourcing is another form of trade that benefits the U.S. economy by giving us cheaper ways to do… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
One of the best ways to grow this economy is to put money in people's pockets. — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
There are only three ways by which any individual can get wealth — by work, by gift or by theft. And, clearly,… — Henry George Copy Share Image
Men, like animals, naturally multiply in proportion to the means of their subsistence. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
