Economics Quotes · Page 20

Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.

— Edward Abbey

Gambling has a zero-sum economic effect in its market and, like legalizing cocaine, the socio-economic costs of legalizing gambling overwhelm the benefits

— John Warren Kindt

People who know nothing about advertising, nothing about pharmaceuticals, and nothing about economics have been loudly proclaiming that the drug companies spend…

— Thomas Sowell

Cost is always an object - the second law of thermodynamics sees to that

— Daniel Dennett

There's a big battle going on in the country in regards to capitalism and socialism, and it's a debate that deserves attention.

— Martha MacCallum

I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.

— James Hillman

People like the robber barons assumed that the doctrine of the survival of the fittest authenticated them as deserving power. You know,…

— Charlie Munger

“The theories of the social sciences do not consist of “laws” in the sense of empirical rules about the behavior of objects…

— Friedrich A. von Hayek

Our economy is broken. I'm not a politician, but neither is Donald Trump. He is a builder, and it's time to rebuild…

— Peter Thiel

The migration to more of a developer-powered economy is actually truer to our vision, which is a platform for user-generated content driven…

— David Baszucki

The development of oil and gas resources depends more on capital than labour, and exporting oil and gas neither generates maximum returns…

— Khalid A. Al-Falih

At nineteen I was pretty sure I was going to be a professional soccer player. At that time I played for one…

— Jo Nesbo

Markets are frequently ahead of, and often out of sync with, the economy.

— Barry Ritholtz

In many ways, love seems to be totally divorced from economics. But then you realize - well, the stakes are high. This…

— Tim Harford

[Donald] Trump and all the Republicans believe in the theory of trickle down economics which is a theory discredited even by the…

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

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

— Sheldon Richman

The market economy of its own cannot destroy socialism. But to build socialism with success, it is necessary to develop a market…

— Nguyen Phu Trong

The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the…

— Wendell Berry

To me, economics doesn't need to be political.

— Trish Regan

I tend to look at things from the supply side, looking for ways to make it less expensive to do more production.…

— Pat Toomey

“One of the primary barriers in this society to total freedom is economics. Suppressives have been weaving a web of economic entanglement…

— L. Ron Hubbard

Economics and a reliance on science and technology to solve our problems has led to an unsustainable situation where continued growth in…

— David Suzuki

“Capitalism driven by hedonism, consumerism and globalisation is generally not restrained by the principles of social justice and legislation based upon them.…

— Yaakov Malkin

Increased business sales would almost certainly raise the productive capacity of the economy by encouraging additional capital spending, especially if accompanied by…

— Janet Yellen

Politically, the world economy really depends on consultants. Because it's also, in a way, an outsourcing of responsibility. They can say, "Yeah,…

— Maren Ade