Every three or four years I pick a new subject. It may be Japanese art; it may be economics. Three years of… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Our entire system, in an economic sense, is based on restriction. Scarcity and inefficiency are the movers of money; the more there… — Peter Joseph Copy Share Image
Australians always want everyone to be average, as if the best thing you can do is fit in. — Poppy King Copy Share Image
I'm signing on to be an athlete, and it's almost like Karl Marx's theory on capitalism. I am both the worker and… — Lawrence Jackson Copy Share Image
There is a big divergence between views on a variety of policy issues from fiscal stimulus to financial regulation. It's my hope… — Lars Peter Hansen Copy Share Image
Economics are part of our life. We try to treat them separately, like over there is the economy and here is history.… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
Utility is a metaphysical concept of impregnable circularity; utility is the quality in commodities that makes individuals want to buy them, and… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
In the general economy, you get government involved in making market decisions - first of all, they're going to get it wrong.… — Ron Johnson Copy Share Image
Letting the greens dictate your energy choices, whether it's halting the XL Pipeline or fracking in New York, isn't just bad economics.… — Arthur L. Herman Copy Share Image
“The Capitalist Class knows that what brings on the increased supply is not immigration so much, but the improved and ever improving… — Danie DeLeon Copy Share Image
I don't care very much for the People Magazine approach to applied economics. — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
What I did not know yet about hunger, but would find out over the next twenty-one years, was that brilliant theorists of… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
“Not all good works can turn a profit, but profits can be directed toward good. As Warren Buffett explains, “I’ve worked in… — William D. Eggers Copy Share Image
Well, I think the global economy is in the position for continuing good growth with inflation well in check. — John W. Snow Copy Share Image
The Universe operates on a basic principle of economics: everything has its cost. We pay to create our future, we pay for… — Brian Herbert Copy Share Image
Studies in Australia have verified this drain on the economy by video gambling machines — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
Economists are like computers. They need to have facts punched into them. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Profit is proof that the capitalist has given something to society that it cherishes more than the material wealth it has given… — Johan Norberg Copy Share Image
The financial crisis appears to be mostly behind us, and the economy seems to have stabilized and is expanding again. — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
Three-quarters of India lives on the edge of the market economy. You can't tell them that only those who can afford water… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Economy is the first and great article (economy such as I understand it) in my financial creed. The controversy between direct and… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
All public resources go to the rich. The poor, if they can survive in the labor market, fine. Otherwise, they die. That's… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
An economic strategy built around hiking taxes for business means one thing: fewer jobs. — Chris Grayling Copy Share Image
We envision a more Germany-style economy, where 20 percent of our workforce is in manufacturing. And we're not talking about banging tin… — Peter Navarro Copy Share Image
Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25… — Agnes Smedley Copy Share Image
Most people think of the economy as producing goods and services and paying labor to buy what it produces. But a growing… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
When our markets work, people throughout our economy benefit - Americans seeking to buy a car or buy a home, families borrowing… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
We are the United States of America. And it's our job to rein in the excesses of capitalism so that it doesn't… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The great thing about behavioural psychology and economics is that they help us to see that there are actually pretty good reasons… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
The rich would do better with a smaller share of a rapidly growing economy then they're doing now with a large share… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Markets, and the way they operate can't be frozen in time and place. A dynamic economy that is growing and increasing material… — Douglas Massey Copy Share Image
The successful sale of British Telecom... reveals a vast and untapped yearning among ordinary people for a direct stake in the ownership… — Nigel Lawson Copy Share Image
I think one of the key differentiators I bring to the table as a venture capitalist is a solid understanding of the… — Bill Gurley Copy Share Image
.......the poor of the world cannot be made rich by redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
In a world in which the price of calculation continues to decrease rapidly, but the price of theorem proving continues to hold… — John Tukey Copy Share Image
“Although many sociologists still echo Max Weber’s (1864–1920) claim that capitalism originated in the Protestant Reformation, capitalism actually originated in the “depths”… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
Our economy is at war with many forms of life on earth, including human life. What the climate needs to avoid collapse… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
