Economics Quotes · Page 72

My parents are very proud that I was a 'Blue Peter' presenter and of me going to Cambridge to do economics.

— Konnie Huq

If we don't concentrate on resurrecting science, we're not going to be able to compete in a global economy.

— Alice Roberts

“Only one thing can allow a business to transcend the daily brute struggle for survival: monopoly profits.”

— Peter Thiel

The essential point to grasp is that in dealing with capitalism we are dealing with an evolutionary process

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

The lifeblood of the economy is that the banking community is a circulatory system for American capitalism.

— Anthony Scaramucci

The innermost essence of my being...is fearless; it is immune to criticism; it does not fear any challenge.

— Eric Butterworth

In economic theory the conclusions are sometimes less interesting than the route by which they are reached.

— Piero Sraffa

Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not,

— Janet Yellen

You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by…

— Zig Ziglar

I have been gradually coming under the conviction, disturbing for a professional theorist, that there is no such thing as economics -…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Economics comes easily to me, and we all seek out what we do well in life. I had in mind becoming a…

— Merlin Olsen

Markets, and the way they operate can't be frozen in time and place. A dynamic economy that is growing and increasing material…

— Douglas Massey

To me, part of the magic of this era is that the very same innovations, discoveries, and technologies that are allowing us…

— Kathleen Sebelius

However, the fact that an economist offers a theoretical analysis does not and should not automatically command respect. What is needed is…

— Paul Krugman

We don't live in a capitalist totality. Capitalism couldn't survive as a totality anyway. We live in this complex system and we…

— David Graeber

We've all heard about Wall Street greed. I think people are now starting to be a little bit more sensitized to Washington…

— Jeb Hensarling

“Overborrowing or overlending? Lenders encourage indebtedness because it is profitable. Developing country governments are sometimes even pressured to overborrow ... Even without…

— Joseph E. Stiglitz

Despite the miracles of capitalism, it doesn't do well in popularity polls. One of the reasons is that capitalism is always evaluated…

— Walter E. Williams

There's only one honest way to measure affluence; that's by comparing the capability of producing goods and services with the desire of…

— Louis O. Kelso

The subjects of every state ought to contribute toward the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their…

— Adam Smith

The basic issue of an American society which is fair, which is providing opportunity for all, is nowadays being replaced by the…

— Bernie Sanders

At its heart, this book touches on a mystery of economics: what exactly is happening in our world, and why does it…

— Nicholas Blincoe

The cash register did more for human morality than the Congregational Church. It was a really powerful phenomenon to make an economic…

— Charlie Munger

Institutionalized rejection of differences is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. As members of such…

— Audre Lorde

While economics is about how people make choice, sociology is about how they don't have any choice to make.

— Bertrand Russell

When people look for and demand purpose in their work, it impacts businesses, communities, and the economy.

— Tae Yoo

What the two hands of the labourer can achieve, the capitalist will never get with all his gold and silver.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Whatever the Left touches-- the arts; the economy; health care; the soul; religion-- it destroys or damages

— Dennis Prager

The arts bridge cultures; they're good for the economy, and they're good for fostering empathy and decency.

— Julie Andrews

By any reasonable criteria, the discipline of economics as a whole, in its present state, is sadly lacking.

— Paul Ormerod

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

— Laurence J. Peter

“And to come back to the economy for a moment, the lifetime distribution of firms is also a power law. Now”

— Stuart A. Kauffman

For the vast majority of mankind's history, economic activity consisted of finding energy and using energy.

— Li Lu

Leadership of a world-economy is an experience of power which may blind the victor to the march of history.

— Fernand Braudel

When it's well managed, migration works in the national interest, for our communities, economy and country.

— Priti Patel

For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way.

— Rand Paul

Innovation, I believe, is the only way that America will regain the initiative in a global dynamic economy.

— John Sculley

Maybe if you win a Nobel Prize in economics, you make a lot of money by giving talks... but not in my…

— Wolfgang Ketterle

Enterprise Washington is economic development in areas of high unemployment around the state of Washington.

— Mike Lowry

My observation is China is thinking more as a global player than regionally, in both politics and economics.

— Ban Ki-moon