Economics Quotes · Page 63

The experience of our generation: that capitalism will not die a natural death.

— Walter Benjamin

Nobody gets beyond a petroleum economy. Not while there's petroleum there.

— Dan Simmons

Economy is an excellent lure to betray people into expense.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

We are leaving the industrial economy and entering the connection economy.

— Seth Godin

“Capitalism is the most powerful tool for positive social change.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

Every sacred cow in the business has to do with economics.

— Gena Rowlands

We need a national focus on increasing the sustainable growth rate of our economy.

— Jerome Powell

Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

— Karl Marx

Start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient.

— Lawrence Summers

The economic egalitarianism of the liberal ideology implies ... the reduction of Westerners to hunger and poverty.

— James Burnham

I am stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents.

— Karl Marx

Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market…

— Peter L. Berger

The rate of profit... is naturally low in rich and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries…

— Adam Smith

Everybody is tweeting from work. No wondering why the world economy is going down the drain.

— Nikhil Saluja

In a global economy where our economies and supply chains are deeply integrated, it's not even possible.

— Barack Obama

Movements have narratives. They tell stories, because they are not just about rearranging economics and politics. They also rearrange meaning. And they're…

— Marshall Ganz

Good businesses are the lifeblood of the economy. But, as responsible business people up and down the country know, the system too…

— Clive Lewis

The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. East…

— Will Durant

Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go…

— Meg Whitman

This question of legal plunder must be settled once and for all, and there are only three ways to settle it: (1)…

— Frederic Bastiat

The answers to the human problems of ecology are to be found in economy. And the answers to the problems of economy…

— Wendell Berry

“One should attend carefully to the fear and desperation of the powerful. They understand very well the potential reach of the "ultimate…

— Noam Chomsky

What is called 'capitalism' might more accurately be called consumerism. It is the consumers who call the tune, and those capitalists who…

— Thomas Sowell

None of us are rational economic men as we're supposed to be portrayed in economic theory where mixes of passions, of desires,…

— Dale Jamieson

But the thought leaders on talk radio and Fox do more than shape opinion. Backed by their own wing of the book-publishing…

— David Frum

“Second, does your value proposition make or reinforce an economic case? Does it have economic impact? Does it sound like your product…

— Steven Gary Blank

My mother found a way out of a little one-bedroom apartment in Athens, Greece to bring Arianna to Cambridge to study economics…

— Agapi Stassinopoulos

Without evading the grimness of life in much of modern Africa, one can recognize that this continent is not yet sick as…

— Dervla Murphy

I am not interested in dry economic socialism. We are fighting against misery, but we are also fighting against alienation. One of…

— Che Guevara

It has been a masterful fight-back by the big banks. We the paying public can't do anything much except admit defeat and…

— John Lanchester

The gang that trashed the town was now back in town to trash it even more and you'll never guess.. they decided…

— David Icke

The data show it's possible to grow the economy without growing pollution.

— Brian Deese

Economics is counterintuitive. It just is.

— Edward Conard

Let's protect and empower workers who actually drive our economy.

— Hillary Clinton

I love the way capitalism finds a place - even for its enemies.

— Banksy

There is always enough for the needy, there is never enough for the greedy.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I think a lot of creative people have no sense of numbers and economics.

— Garry Marshall

Economics is about creating win-win situations. But in sports, someone loses.

— Stan Kroenke

The economy is being run primarily by the banks for their own interest.

— Michael Hudson