One of the most striking trends, since at least the 1960's, has been for employment in services to grow far more rapidly… — Peter Dicken Copy Share Image
Young entrepreneurs are the source for American innovation that drives growth in todays economy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...countries don't create economies. It is entrepreneurs and companies that create and revitalize economies. The role of the governments should be to… — John Naisbitt Copy Share Image
The primary factor that enables our government to peddle economic snake oil is the dollar's unique role as the world's reserve currency,… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
The government - the ultimate short-term-oriented player - cannot withstand much pain in the economy or the financial markets. Bailouts and rescues… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Long ago, during my apprenticeship in the wine trade, I learned that wine is more than the sum of its parts, and… — Gerald Asher Copy Share Image
This fear of criticism displayed by the advocates of freedom of criticism cannot be attributed solely to craftiness. No, the majority of… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
I think building the middle class, investing in the middle class, making college debt-free so more young people can get their education,… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
We're so interdependent, and what one country does is such an important part of what happens in the global economy. — Alan Mulally Copy Share Image
The Greek idea of fate is moira, which means "portion." Fate rules a portion of your life. But there is more to… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
There’s Socialism and Communism and Capitalism and there’s Feminism and Hedonism, and there’s Catholicism and Bipedalism and Consumerism, but I think Narcissism… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Recommending gastric bypass as a national solution for our diabetes epidemic is bad medicine and bad economics. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
American capitalism has been both overpraised and overindicted. It is neither the Plumed Knight nor the monstrous Robber Baron. — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Free trade and economic stability do not, by themselves, guarantee success. — Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal Copy Share Image
Black people have been marginalized and kept away from the economics of this country. I think people are starting to understand that… — The D.O.C Copy Share Image
The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Now we see evolutionary trends in a variety of areas ranging from atomic and molecular physics through fluid mechanics, chemistry and biology… — Ilya Prigogine Copy Share Image
The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Globalization, meaning the global expansion of a market economy, is the only way we can guarantee widespread prosperity and peace. A lot… — Douglas Massey Copy Share Image
“Martin Weitzman puts it, “the long-term growth of an advanced economy is dominated by the behavior of technical progress.”12” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Under stable and incremental conditions, a free-market economy spurs entrepreneurship, ensures efficiency, and generates wealth. Those conditions no longer apply. — Johan Rockstrom Copy Share Image
It's pointless to talk to Fed members about economics because they are academics who believe in money-printing. Some of them believe they… — Marc Faber Copy Share Image
The real wealth of a nation is its people. And the purpose of development is to create an enabling environment for people… — Mahbub ul Haq Copy Share Image
How you make it in this world, for the most part, depends more on what you do as opposed to whether people… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
The great dynamic success of capitalism had given us a powerful weapon in our battle against Communism-money. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The very concept of universal formal education is a product (and a relatively late product) of the capitalist world-economy. — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
“Kakonomics (from the Greek, the economics of the worst) describes cases wherein people not only have the standard preference for receiving high-quality… — John Brockman Copy Share Image
It was important to me to put together a future history that would scan, and serve as the backdrop to the domestic… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition. — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
If the logic of capitalism is "expand or die," then either it has to die or the world has to die. — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Economic theory dictates that the value of a company is basically the present value of its future profits. To estimate Facebook's value… — Didier Sornette Copy Share Image
Growing our economy means allowing individuals, and particularly those in the middle class, to be able to keep more of their money.… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Economics brings into view that conflict of choice is one of the permanent characteristics of human existence. — Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins Copy Share Image
Women of the world to say goodbye to gold, the world economy will be on the verge of breaking point — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
Economic systems come, and economic systems go. No economic system lasts forever. Capitalism is not likely to last forever, either. — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image
We say we are trying to buy into businesses with excellent economics, run by honest and able people at a decent price.… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
