Economics Quotes · Page 66

Through hard work and education, we can deliver a strong economy and opportunity for all.

— Julia Gillard

I think true economic class unhappiness comes from when across the street someone has a new Cadillac and you can't get that.

— James Gray

One of the major forces driving the decline in wages and the concentration of wealth at the top is the offshoring of…

— Donald Trump

The idea of applying psychology or behavioural sciences to communication is not a new one. It's very old behavioural economics. If it…

— Alexander Nix

The lnternet is turning economics inside-out. For example, everybody on the internet now wants stuff for free and there are so many…

— Uri Geller

Markets are nimble and efficient, gathering the collective but disbursed intelligence of the economy's players and communicating up-to-the-minute realities of prices, product…

— Joel Miller

I know the difference between venture capital[ism] and vulture capitalism. Venture capitalism is a good thing, comes in, gives that gap funding…

— Rick Perry

The point is always made that capitalism is efficient, people say 'You might not like it, but it works.' But Britain is…

— Mark Fisher

“The economy — and the need to keep it strong and growing — has somehow become the most important aspect of modern…

— David Suzuki

Giving is the vital impulse and moral center of capitalism.

— George Gilder

“This fundamental inequality, which I will write as r > g (where r stands for the average annual rate of return on…

— Thomas Piketty

“Several social behaviors that economists have identified as obstacles to progress are ones that could well have a genetic basis. One is…

— Nicholas Wade

The end does not justify the means. No one's rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others.

— Ayn Rand

For violence or fraud can create no right.

— Algernon Sidney

“My core argument is that most assessments of the Internet fail to ground it in political economy; they fail to understand the…

— Robert W. McChesney

“The hidden economy [is] fed not by money and greed but by love, pure and simple. You see the best and truly…

— Etienne de L'Amour

“where large organizations are relied upon for economic expansion and development—that is, where small organizations find little opportunity to multiply, to find…

— Jane Jacobs

Political economy is the science of free society. Its theory and its history alike establish this position. Its fundamental maxims, Laissez-faire and…

— George Fitzhugh

If our goal in legislating against carbon releases is not simply punishing the West and its power companies but truly trying to…

— Gregg Easterbrook

I’ve worked in an economy that rewards someone who saves the lives of others on a battlefield with a medal, rewards a…

— Warren Buffett

Too many people think that economics is this subject that should wait until the university level. But it can't wait that long.

— Robert Duvall

Anyone who thinks that you can have infinite growth on a planet with finite resources is either a madman or an economist.

— David Attenborough

“Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work together for the benefit…

— John Maynard Keynes

Economic stimulation that works through the increased outlays to the affluent has, inevitably, an aspect of soundness and sanity that is lacking…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Arbitrators, who depend on the unions for future business, regularly award big raises and benefits without any basis in equity or economics.

— Tom Suozzi

I didn't like university life much at Bologna. The subjects I studied - economics and business administration - didn't interest me. I…

— Michelangelo Antonioni

I have long aspired to make our company a noble prototype of industry, penetrating in science, reliable in engineering, creative in aesthetics…

— Edwin Land

“Humans are in danger of losing their economic value because intelligence is decoupling from consciousness.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

The U.S. should take notes: Government overspending and a campaign of alienating investors and small business isn't really the best way to…

— Oliver DeMille

“How you think and create your inner world that you gonna become in your outer world. Your inner believe manifest you in…

— Rashedur Ryan Rahman

“This economy is based upon consumption, which ultimately serves, not the ordinary consumers, but a tiny class of excessively wealthy people for…

— Wendell Berry

“Sadly for Bitcoin, most Austrian economists aren’t fans – even as Bitcoiners remain huge fans of Austrian economics.27 You will find Austrian…

— David Gerard

Our economy, for a long while, has been transitioning from one reliant on industrial strength to one based on digital information. The…

— Om Malik

I think economics, content, and the ability to interact with content in new and different ways are what will drive the adoption…

— Tom Peters

I understand what needs to be done to fix the economy.

— Steve Mnuchin

“A “class analysis” does not necessarily begin and end with Marx’s nineteenth-century version, a version I regard as grossly inaccurate. The class…

— Murray Bookchin

Writers in a profit making economy are an exploitable commodity whose works are products to be marketed, and are so judged and…

— Tillie Olsen

Today President Obama gave a major speech where he defended his handling of the economy. And there were tons of people in…

— Jimmy Fallon

This kind of inequality - a level we haven't seen since the Great Depression - hurts us all. When middle-class families can…

— Barack Obama

“Due to its inherently limited supply for each location, land obtains its value from the natural, social, and cultural wealth that exists…

— Martin Adams