Economics Quotes · Page 71

Spread the truth-the laws of economics are like the laws of engineering. One set of laws works everywhere.

— Lawrence Summers

In proportion as capital accumulates, the lot of the laborer, be his payment high or low, must grow worse.

— Karl Marx

America... an economic system prouder of the distribution of its products than of the products themselves.

— Murray Kempton

The "human condition" is always to push forward for the better and economics is the study of that process.

— Brian Wesbury

I want to create economic opportunity at home and abroad. I don't want just one or the other. I want both.

— Anonymous

The way to turn our economy around is not by making rich people poorer, it's by making poor people richer.

— Marco Rubio

One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.

— Milton Friedman

I believe in just enriching the economy. And we're leaving so much on the table, 72 percent of the planet.

— Robert Ballard

What kind of society isn't structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which…

— Milton Friedman

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The…

— Thomas Sowell

Governments of all stripes want to deliver growth and re-balance their economies now that they have learned the hard way that, left…

— Anonymous

When I left university I got a job with Shell on their graduate scheme. One of my roles was as a commercial…

— Liz Truss

There must have been something in the air of Gary that led one into economics: the first Nobel Prize winner, Paul Samuelson,…

— Joseph Stiglitz

The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is…

— John Maynard Keynes

We need to keep investing in economic and homeland security. We need to bank on the right kind of economic development. We…

— John Baldacci

The recent evidence increasingly suggests that an economic expansion is already well under way, although an array of influences unique to this…

— Alan Greenspan

If government manages to establish paper tickets or bank credit as money, as equivalent to gold grams or ounces, then the government,…

— Murray Rothbard

I was an advocate of the deregulation movement and I made - along with a lot of other smart people - a…

— Richard Posner

Do you realize that the 850 billion dollar bank bailout, that sum of money is greater than the entire 50 year running…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The first commandment of economics is: Grow. Grow forever. Companies get bigger. National economies need to swell by a certain percent each…

— Donella Meadows

The so-called consumer society and the politics of corporate capitalism have created a second nature of man which ties him libidinally and…

— Herbert Marcuse

The realization that I came to is that each citizen for himself or herself understands the economics, which is, "I better make…

— David Mamet

“Everybody looks at oil and almost entirely forget that the percentage of jobs the oil sector creates is relatively small compared to…

— Emi Iyalla

More than ever before, we need to learn and apply the principles of economic self-reliance. We do not know when the crisis…

— Ezra Taft Benson

The finance enchains with golden bonds states and peoples, the economy becomes nomadic, the life uprooted.

— Alfred Rosenberg

In a free society, government has the responsibility of protecting us from others, but not from ourselves.

— Walter E. Williams

We are out of the ditch, we're standing, we're walking, but we're not running. I want to grow the economy.

— Hillary Clinton

Whether you're a banker or a botanist - the economic benefits of a clean energy revolution are compelling.

— Barry Gardiner

A government debt is a government claim against personal income and private property - an unpaid tax bill.

— Hans F. Sennholz

I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism.

— Hugo Chavez

Need is not demand. Effective economic demand requires not merely need but corresponding purchasing power.

— Henry Hazlitt

The inborn instability of capitalism has been part of the history of the system for several hundred years.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The transformation of capitalism is unstoppable because we need limits on resources for humans to survive.

— Graciela Chichilnisky

I am suspicious of the idea of a new paradigm, to use that word, an entirely new structure of the economy.

— Anonymous

Most of economics can be summarized in four words: 'People respond to incentives.' The rest is commentary.

— Steven Landsburg

It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy.

— Conan O'Brien

To survive in the future, we will need our economy to be dynamic, entrepreneurial, innovative and flexible.

— Chris Grayling

In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.

— William Irwin Thompson

We must create a [economic] crisis in order to ensure that there is no alternative to a smaller government.

— Jeb Bush

I have fun running all the Virgin businesses, so a setback is never a bad experience, just a learning curve

— Richard Branson