Economics Quotes · Page 68

Making films take a lot of intelligence and is tough, though achieving Economics honours is tough, too.

— Parineeti Chopra

A cunning fellow is man, inventive beyond all expectation, he reaches sometimes evil and sometimes good

— Sophocles

For too many, the dream of economic mobility has been replaced with a nightmare of economic stagnation.

— Mario Cuomo

Capitalism is the fullest expression of anarchism and anarchism is the fullest expression of capitalism

— Murray Rothbard

Capitalism, as practiced, is a financially profitable, non-sustainable aberration in human development.

— Paul Hawken

Short term "dash for cash" economic solutions hinder progress towards a better, more sustainable, world

— Phil Harding

With free market and free man, if you remove one of them, it is not called capitalism in my dictionary.

— Li Lu

“Keeping people in a constant state of lack, in perpetual desire, strengthens the marketplace economy.”

— Bell Hooks

“They (economists) must set aside their contempt for other disciplines and their absurd claim to greater scientific legitimacy, despite the fact that…

— Thomas Piketty

We're the richest economy in the history of the world. For the majority of Americans not to get the benefits of this…

— Robert Reich

The inefficiency of political control of an economy has been demonstrated more often, in more places, and under more varied conditions, than…

— Thomas Sowell

I put forward a budget of what I called "middle-class economics" that continues to be fiscally prudent but makes necessary investments for…

— Barack Obama

History has taught us that freedom cannot long survive unless it is based on moral foundations. You can get the economics right,…

— Margaret Thatcher

The [economic crisis] means that we have to address the challenges and the risks, and we need to take into account the…

— Stephane Abrial

It's hard to see any institutional structure that stands in the way of the homogenization and simplification of these supply chains in…

— James C. Scott

We must draw on the unique strengths of the Japanese economy, seek an open and cooperative approach with our international partners, and…

— Yoshihiko Noda

The point we are making is that the general global messages have been communicated, about the politics of South Africa, about the…

— Thabo Mbeki

When people live in the full light of an open society, paying their taxes, abiding by the rules, that makes not only…

— Martin O'Malley

Essentially, not only do we believe in this myth of 'de-risking', but it has become the one overriding goal; de-risking above growth,…

— Andreas Antonopoulos

The shortcomings of economics are not original error but uncorrected obsolescence. The obsolescence has occurred because what is convenient has become sacrosanct.…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Inequality of wealth and incomes is an essential feature of the market economy. It is the implement that makes the consumers supreme…

— Ludwig von Mises

With the defeat of the Reich and pending the emergence of the Asiatic, the African and, perhaps, the South American nationalisms, there…

— Adolf Hitler

“Sweezy argued on the basis of Marx and Keynes that “accumulation is the primary factor” in capitalist development, yet noted that its…

— John Bellamy Foster

As long as we place millions of Indians at the canter of our thought process, as long as we think of their…

— Mukesh Ambani

“Capitalism may be the unequal distribution of wealth, socialism is the equal distribution of poverty.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

We've got a lot of work to do economically in this country to bring about a more just and fair economy.

— Barack Obama

The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically.

— Sidney Blumenthal

There is a fundamentalist belief by capitalists that capital will save the world, and it just isn't so.

— Thomas Piketty

As I constantly remind Canadians, there isnt really a Canadian economy anymore. It is a global economy.

— Stephen Harper

I joined Red Chillies entertainment right after I returned from the London School of Economics in 2007.

— Kanika Dhillon

Capitalism has been really good to me. I'm very fortunate: I have written books and my books have sold.

— Marianne Williamson

Unequal distribution of income is an excessively uneconomic method of getting the necessary saving done.

— Joan Robinson

China is crippling our manufacturing economy and eliminating our jobs by illegally flooding our markets.

— Virginia Foxx

In a global economy where our economies and supply chains are deeply integrated, it's not even possible.

— Barack Obama

The Russian economy is way down because of the price of oil, and because the USSR was a big chunk of it.

— Michael Bloomberg

Democratic socialism means that we must create an economy that works for all, not just the very wealthy.

— Bernie Sanders

Why does a public discussion of economic policy so often show the abysmal ignorance of the participants?

— Robert Solow

Why should the idea of Western liberal democracy automatically imply unregulated free-market capitalism?

— John Lanchester

A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.

— George Bernard Shaw

It's not a choice between our environment and our economy; it's a choice between prosperity and decline.

— Barack Obama