In fact unrestrained capitalism is quite cruel and the cost is on the individual human, on his or her grace. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Only in economics is endless expansion seen as a virtue. In biology it is called cancer.” — David Pilling Copy Share Image
After a breakthrough year for America, our economy is growing and creating jobs at the fastest pace since 1999. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
America has always understood this principle of the economy - that everyone can benefit when everyone competes. — Julia Gillard Copy Share Image
Men, like animals, naturally multiply in proportion to the means of their subsistence. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a… — Clara Barton Copy Share Image
Each step in life has been another step in an area that was a challenge, that is highly satisfying and that gives… — Graeme Samuel Copy Share Image
Triumphant capitalism has unleashed a powerful drive toward inequality, not improvement, in the social sphere. — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
President Obama's assault on the free-enterprise market and venture capitalists is anti-American and shows his greatest insecurity: his lack of private sector… — Mercedes Schlapp Copy Share Image
Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
If strong economic conditions can partially reverse supply-side damage after it has occurred, then policymakers may want to aim at being more… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
“By insisting that economic laws always take shape through social norms, values, and political choices, Piketty would rescue his discipline from the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Home Economics stands for the ideal home life for today unhampered by the traditions of the past and the utilization of all… — Ellen Swallow Richards Copy Share Image
I picked economics at the end of my undergraduate time because it seemed to be a really nice combination of theory, including… — Michael Spence Copy Share Image
Leo Crowley, Harry [Truman]'s Foreign Economic Administrator, tells Congressmen the theory...: 'If you create good governments in foreign countries, automatically you will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As liberals, men like Richter viewed socialism as the great modern counter-revolution, and believed that the achievement of the socialist goal would… — Ralph Raico Copy Share Image
“The only rule that ever made sense to me I learned from a history, not an economics, professor at Wharton. "Fear," he… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
“The system, in its irrationality, has been driven by profit to build steel skyscrapers for insurance companies while the cities decay, to… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as society, there is a living tapestry of men and women and the beauty of that tapestry,… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
While it might surprise many ecologists to hear, capitalism is itself the ultimate form of conservationism. Capitalists seek to conserve resources, not… — Steven Plaut Copy Share Image
What would you think of a person who earned $24,000 a year but spent $35,000? Suppose on top of that, he was… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
Among the current discussions, the impact of new and sophisticated methods in the study of the past occupies an important place. The… — Robert Fogel Copy Share Image
I gather that a lot of the "pots" in the great museum in Baghdad, which we allowed to be looted and then… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Democracy cannot survive where there is such uniformity that everyone wears exactly the same intellectual uniform or point of view. Democracy implies… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
A generation ago, the image was that you had to trample everyone else down to succeed; but I don't believe that makes… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
A natural way that an economist approaches a problem is to say, here's where I think the economy is going; this is… — Christina Romer Copy Share Image
We need investment in green economy infrastructure; public services, training and education; and a multilateral plan to create youth job opportunities. — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
What we do have is a gigantic matching tax-cutting program as a way of stimulating the economy. — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
There is no economy in having one operation produce a part and another separate the good ones from the bad ones. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
Economists must always be prepared for surprises: they find many in trying to find order in the universe of their study. — Simon Kuznets Copy Share Image
“The economy is a test and measurement system, and it requires reliable learning guided by an accurate meter of monetary value.” — George Gilder Copy Share Image
Denmark is a small nation of five million people, but our economy is completely dependent on our commercial fleet. Every family has… — Tobias Lindholm Copy Share Image
The pendulum of economic power might well begin to shift from capital back to labor. — Stephen S. Roach Copy Share Image
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
Neither the entrepreneurs nor the farmers nor the capitalists determine what has to be produced. The consumers do that. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Economists are very good at saying that something cannot go on forever, but not so good at saying when it will stop. — Herbert Stein Copy Share Image
If you bail out every investment bank that gets in trouble, that's not capitalism, that's socialism for the rich — Jim Rogers Copy Share Image
Complex regulation in place of simple-rules capitalism disrupts market processes and corrupts business incentives. — Robert L. Bradley, Jr Copy Share Image
If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows (referring to "trickle down" economics). — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
When I came here almost nine years ago our economy was troubled and our nation was divided. — Rodney King Copy Share Image