In this consists the difference between the character of a miser and that of a person of exact economy and assiduity. The… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Finding a single investment that will return 20% per year for 40 years tends to happen only in dreamland. In the real… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The myth of the inevitability of economic globalization is based largely on the work of Milton Friedman, and easily the most underreported… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
In raising the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates in the same manner as simple interest does in the accumulation… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“Competition is often conflated with capitalism, but they are not at all the same. Capitalism involves private ownership of the means of… — Marc Levinson Copy Share Image
We are seeing smarter philanthropy, more philanthropy, and that's true world wide. So it's kind of a movement that has a lot… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Africa's risks are mainly perceived and not real. Unfortunately for us in Africa we are not really very good at telling our… — Aliko Dangote Copy Share Image
You can't create more jobs for an economy where the vast majority of people are hesitant and even afraid to spend and… — Mark Goulston Copy Share Image
The MD is well aware that the forecasts are no good but he needs them for planning purposes ... — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
To jump-start our economy, we must leave cash in your hands - because if youve got money in your pocket, youll spend… — Tim Walz Copy Share Image
[On being first black woman to earn a PhD in economics and first black woman admitted to Pennsylvania bar:] I never looked… — Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Copy Share Image
The crisis of the fisheries is similar to our economy. This is not one fishery failing, but the whole system. — Daniel Pauly Copy Share Image
We love a world in which the people in the white hats get rewarded and the people in the black hats pay… — Rebecca M. Blank Copy Share Image
The crucial role of the rich in a capitalist economy is... to invest; to provide unencumbered and unbureaucratized cash. — George Gilder Copy Share Image
“Well first of all, tell me: Is there some society you know that doesn’t run on greed? You think Russia doesn’t run… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“If the world economy is going to revive, I believe commodities are going to lead it back up. If the world economy… — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
The yearning after equality [in economic outcome] is the offspring of envy and covetousness, and there is no possible plan for satisfying… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Business is the force of change. Business is essential to solving the climate crisis, because this is what business is best at:… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Well, the U.S., of course, is the world's largest economy. It's about a quarter of the world's output. It's also home to… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
“Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it. -Andrew Young, author, civil rights activist, US congressman, mayor, and UN… — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
In the interests of economy they condemned hundreds of children to death and I call it murder. — James Maxton Copy Share Image
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