Economics Quotes · Page 17

In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.

— William J. Clinton

I really want to focus on economic growth and growing the economy.

— Paul Ryan

People, no matter the economic class, find ways to feed their narcissism.

— Lynne Tillman

Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Creative Destruction is the essential fact about capitalism.

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

There can be no economy where there is no efficiency.

— Benjamin Disraeli

If something cannot go on for ever, it will stop

— Herbert Stein

The sharing economy is out of the bag - and it's not going to go back in.

— Joe Gebbia

Most of us try to do too much because we are secretly afraid we will not be able to do anything at…

— Rick Aster

It's a beacon of hope in a dark world. You watch 'The Muppets' and you're smiling for an hour and a half,…

— James Bobin

Printing money creates inflation, which weakens an economy. Unfortunately, this kind of common-sense thinking never seems to penetrate academic circles.

— Peter Schiff

In a slower economy, companies look for more value. The cloud provides this. So does Big Data.

— Aneel Bhusri

Certainly if the fundamental problem of society is that demands are infinite and resources are always limited, politics, not economics is the…

— Bernard Crick

In my 40-plus years as a venture capitalist, I have come to appreciate the certainty a healthy economy provides for businesses both…

— Alan Patricof

I’m not into the whole Austrian type, strongly libertarian economics. I like more mainstream economics

— Robert Sarvis

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

— John Sculley

A successful economy depends on the proliferation of the rich, on creating a large class of risk-taking men who are willing to…

— George Gilder

“The freer an economy is, the more this human diversity of knowledge will be manifested. By contrast, political power originates in top-down…

— George Gilder

Sharia has become an increasingly significant force in American capitalism, thanks to the embrace by Wall Street and the U.S. government of…

— Frank Gaffney

Tourism, viticulture and agriculture, logging and mining, ranching and manufacturing and ever-increasing numbers of small and medium-sized businesses are just a few…

— Stockwell Day

If they [liberals] didn't believe we were mean spirited they couldn't stay liberal. They have to believe they mean better than us,…

— Dennis Prager

None of us has control over the economy, the job market, or anything else in the global sense. But we are 100%…

— Edward Whitacre, Jr

Life is full of uncertainties. Future investment earnings and interest and inflation rates are not known to anybody. However, I can guarantee…

— Noel Whittaker

capital is the result of saving, and not of spending. The spendthrift who wastes his substance in riotous living decreases the capital…

— Millicent Fawcett

“It is often sadly remarked that the bad economists present their errors to the public better than the good economists present their…

— Henry Hazlitt

Violent resistance against the power of the state is the last resort of the minority in its effort to break loose from…

— Ludwig von Mises

“Monopoly is a market, or part of a market, reserved to the exclusive possession of one or more sellers by means of…

— George Reisman

“continue polluting while trying to offset the damage through some face-saving corporate philanthropy exercises. We would be fools to assume that we…

— Lorenzo Fioramonti

“Economics is the art of allocating scarce goods among competing demands. The conceit of Marxism was the thought that in Communism, economics…

— Daniel Bell

“When nothing is valued for what it is, everything is destined to be wasted. Once the values of things refer only to…

— Wendell Berry

The dominant orthodoxy in development economics was that Third World countries were trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty that could be…

— Thomas Sowell

Now, you might say – “But why should we pay people for doing what they’re supposed to do?” It’s a fair question…

— Michael Bloomberg

Economics is the study of how society manages its scarce resources.

— Greg Mankiw

Only economists mistake physical opulence for riches.

— Aldo Leopold

Even if work were not an economic necessity, it is a spiritual necessity.

— Neal A. Maxwell

Under Bill Clinton we had a roaring economy that looked really good.

— George Packer

As the economy grows, so will the demand for energy.

— Cliff Stearns

An ecological approach to the economy is about having enough, not having more.

— John Bellamy Foster

Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics.

— P. J. O'Rourke

“Politics is economics by other means, and war is politics by other means.”

— Stan Goff