Forget socialism, capitalism, just-in-time deliveries, salary surveys, and the rest ... concentrate on building organizations that accomplish that most difficult of all… — Ricardo Semler Copy Share Image
The biggest lie of all is that capitalism is democracy. We have no way of understanding democracy outside of the market, just… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
We're facing a danger that economics is rigorous deduction based upon faulty assumptions. Science after science gets that way from time to… — W. Brian Arthur Copy Share Image
I would never make a good economist. You know, an economist is a man that can tell you anything about — well,… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
“Back in Ancient Greece when Xenophon first posed the economic question, ‘How should a household best manage its resources?’ he was literally… — Kate Raworth Copy Share Image
For 30 years I've been schooled in everything from government, and economics, to medicine and international relations. But don't be impressed. Someone… — Lester Holt Copy Share Image
The world economy, the world environment, the world AIDS crisis, the world arms race: they affect us all. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The sort of dependence that results from exchange, i.e., from commercial transactions, is a reciprocal dependence. We cannot be dependent upon a… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“A brick could help me hold down a job. Hey, in an economy as bad as this, every little bit helps. ” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I think the world is becoming more global. Because of economics, you have to feed the demographics that are buying your product. — Sung Kang Copy Share Image
We don't have the leadership or the understanding of the value of this, and when your political systems and your economic systems… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
“Our current economic crises stem, at least in part, from our inability to recognize the storage bias of the money we use.… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
as an economics professor I am by nature inclined to the view that the truth isn't out there, it's in here -… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
The paramount doctrine of the economic and technological euphoria of recent decades has been that everything depends on innovation. It was understood… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The world has physical limits that we are already encountering, but our economy operates as if no physical limits exist. — Christopher Martenson Copy Share Image
The Russian economy is way down because of the price of oil, and because the USSR was a big chunk of it. — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
If people understood how the economic system works, there'd be a revolution in a minute. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
The demand for electricity to have a strong, growing economy is too great to be simply offset by more conservation. — Spencer Abraham Copy Share Image
I talk about economic freedom. I talk about capitalism without fearing the word. — Maxime Bernier Copy Share Image
Bad spending, to me, in terms of its economic benefit, would be wealth transfer payments. It's a misallocation of resources. — Mick Mulvaney Copy Share Image
“The rich feel much less need than their predecessors to account for their wealth, whether to society, to governments or to God.… — Anthony Sampson Copy Share Image
The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism — Francis Parker Yockey Copy Share Image
[A]n important new book. . . . Professor Akerlof and Rachel Kranton have invented Identity Economics. — Daniel Finkelstein Copy Share Image
“In a basic agricultural society, it's easy enough to swap five chickens for a new dress or to pay a schoolteacher with… — Charles Wheelan Copy Share Image
The economic dimension is very clear. I was at a dinner party, a mother got up, who's a very distinguished scientist, and… — Donna Shalala Copy Share Image
I think the notion...that liquidity is this - of tradable common stock - is a great contributor to capitalism - I think… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Let us then repeat and firmly fix this main point: the evil, the root evil, of that to which the term Capitalism… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
“Wages Against Housework,” a pamphlet central to a feminist campaign in the 1970s condemning the unpaid labor of housework and caregiving. The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Economists who speak the English tongue are strangely intimidated by mathematical symbols. — Al Nichol Copy Share Image
The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain's long-standing weaknesses in investment… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
“It said something about the ability of the free marketplace to mold people’s behavior into a socially acceptable pattern. For this was… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Feudalism is an economic system where a few people own all the land and the others have no option but to be… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
“Buffett asserted that the tendency to project out very high rates of growth has caused investors to lose tons of money. The… — Daniel Pecaut Copy Share Image
Somewhere along the way to free-market capitalism, the United States became the most wasteful society on the planet. — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
I was always interested in the larger picture, I was pre-law in college, and had a degree in economics. I was very… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
“The (nation) state's concern had been the development of citizens - social subjects whose identity was shaped by the goals of the… — Gunther Kress Copy Share Image
The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a… — William Vickrey Copy Share Image