Human material existence is limited by ideas, not stuff, people don't need copper wires they need ways to communicate, oil was a… — Paul Romer Copy Share Image
You can't create more jobs for an economy where the vast majority of people are hesitant and even afraid to spend and… — Mark Goulston Copy Share Image
The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
A pickup in demand in many advanced economies and a stabilization in commodity prices should, in turn, boost the growth prospects of… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
The ultimate resource in economic development is people. It is people, not capital or raw materials that develop an economy. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
American capitalism has been both overpraised and overindicted. It is neither the Plumed Knight nor the monstrous Robber Baron. — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
If people that made products didn't market them and sell them we'd have no economy and nobody would be working. — Paula Scher Copy Share Image
Many people convince themselves if it is economically necessary, it's morally right. That's not always the case. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The first essential for economists ... is to ... combat, not foster, the ideology which pretends that values which can be measured… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
You can see signs of a roaring economy. You can sense economic growth. You know it's happening. You're part of it. It… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Acts slashes taxes on the very wealthy and kills regulations with the idea that rich businessmen will… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
When you create an economy where you subsidize corporate profits through a welfare program and food stamps in order to keep wages… — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
We, the Social Democrats, are convinced that capitalism needs to be tamed a second time. The first time we achieved that in… — Sigmar Gabriel Copy Share Image
An exploration of the challenges Korea faces in transforming its economy from a government-directed, low-cost producer to an innovative world economic power… — Lewis M. Branscomb Copy Share Image
The single market is unique among international trade agreements. It eliminates 100 per cent of tariffs on all goods. Not even the… — Wes Streeting Copy Share Image
The post-crisis perception, at least in the media, appears to be one of Americans being held down by Wall Street, by big… — Michael Burry Copy Share Image
“Thomas Piketty, an economist at the Paris School of Economics, warned in his zeitgeist-shifting book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, that without… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
Progress never defines its ultimate objective but thrusts its victims at once into an infinite series,' Mr. [John Crowe] Ransom said' 'Industrialism,'… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
“China has undergone an enormous transformation. But because the political system remains unchanged, the great changes in the economic and social sphere… — Yang Jisheng Copy Share Image
“So, when free-market economists say that a certain regulation should not be introduced because it would restrict the ‘freedom’ of a certain… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
“The “food system,” according to Professor Shaw, now uses 16.5 percent of all energy used in the United States. This 16.5 percent… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The nation as such is not a large subject that has needs, that works, practices economy, and consumes. . . . Thus… — Ralph Raico Copy Share Image
Government intervention in the economy - through taxes, regulation and, most importantly, currency inflation - causes distortions and misallocations of capital that… — Doug Casey Copy Share Image
“there is enormous value in what economists call social capital. It’s a professor’s term, but the concept is pretty simple: The networks… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages. — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
I think the rise of quantitative econometrics and a highly mathematical approach to risk management was the obverse of a decline in… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
“Your VISION and your self-willingness is the MOST powerful elements to conquer your goal” — Rashedur Ryan Rahman Copy Share Image
While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government. — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
As an economy measures performance in terms of the creation of money, people become a major source of inefficiency. — David Korten Copy Share Image
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless. — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
I am very new to cooking. At school, our home economics lessons were very poor. We were told to pick a recipe… — Sarah Millican Copy Share Image
The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists. — Walter Ulbricht Copy Share Image
I studied economics. I studied industrial engineering. It wasn't until later, when I was around 26, that I really decided to go… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
If I could direct it [films] I would be very happy. But the economics of business don't always allow you to do… — Lee Van Cleef Copy Share Image
“The internet is less a creation dictated by economics than one dictated by sharing gifts.” — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
The way to turn our economy around is not by making rich people poorer, it's by making poor people richer. — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
The education system is financially crippling the economy that it's designed to serve. — Steve Fowler Copy Share Image
The inborn instability of capitalism has been part of the history of the system for several hundred years. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
It is an extreme perversion of capitalism if you can trade in something before you have even paid for it. — James Dyson Copy Share Image
When we liberate the economic potential of women, we elevate the economic performance of communities, nations, and the world. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image