Economics Quotes · Page 92

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

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

A pickup in demand in many advanced economies and a stabilization in commodity prices should, in turn, boost the growth prospects of…

— Janet Yellen

The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted.

— Edmund Burke

American capitalism has been both overpraised and overindicted. It is neither the Plumed Knight nor the monstrous Robber Baron.

— Max Lerner

The ultimate resource in economic development is people. It is people, not capital or raw materials that develop an economy.

— Peter Drucker

If people that made products didn't market them and sell them we'd have no economy and nobody would be working.

— Paula Scher

Many people convince themselves if it is economically necessary, it's morally right. That's not always the case.

— Anonymous

Capitalism means free enterprise, sovereignty of the consumers in economic matters, and sovereignty of the voters in political matters. Socialism means full…

— Ludwig von Mises

A sure sign of a crisis is the prevalence of cranks. It is characteristic of a crisis in theory that cranks get…

— Joan Robinson

I am one of the most successful economists, according to what markets tell us, though most of my professional colleagues, who are…

— Ha-Joon Chang

When a management with reputation for brilliance gets hooked up with a business with a reputation for bad economics, it's the reputation…

— Warren Buffett

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition. History suggests that capitalism…

— Milton Friedman

We cannot have a full economic recovery, we cannot ensure the security of this country, while the states are in the midst…

— Bill Richardson

It is impossible to understand the economic system in which we are living if we try to interpret it as a rational…

— Edwin Arlington Robinson

The complexity of economics can be calculated mathematically. Write out the algebraic equation that is the human heart and multiply each unknown…

— Anonymous

The economic system that the United States has is an evil empire. It's an economic system that's not fair, not just, and…

— Michael Moore

Some representatives of monopolistic capitalism, sensing this evil in their system, have tried to silence criticism by pointing to the diffused ownership…

— Fulton J. Sheen

Broadly speaking, Keynesianism means that the government has a specific responsibility for the behavior of the economy, that it doesn't work on…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Goldman Sachs was fundamentally responsible for the crash of 2008, but by that time its former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Henry…

— David Icke

“At the same time, however, the necessity for economic change in our countries has led us to conceive laws and accept traditions…

— Jean Vanier

Government should be good for the liberty of the governed, and that is when it governs to the least possible degree. It…

— Augustin Thierry

“From the daily battles against the employers and their allies, the workers gradually learn the deeper meaning of this struggle. At first…

— Rudolf Rocker

I also believe - and hope - that politics and economics will cease to be as important in the future as they…

— Arthur C. Clarke

The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.

— David Ricardo

“Your VISION and your self-willingness is the MOST powerful elements to conquer your goal”

— Rashedur Ryan Rahman

I think the rise of quantitative econometrics and a highly mathematical approach to risk management was the obverse of a decline in…

— Niall Ferguson

As an economy measures performance in terms of the creation of money, people become a major source of inefficiency.

— David Korten

While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.

— Robert Kennedy

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

— Sinclair Lewis

I am very new to cooking. At school, our home economics lessons were very poor. We were told to pick a recipe…

— Sarah Millican

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

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

The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.

— Walter Ulbricht

“The internet is less a creation dictated by economics than one dictated by sharing gifts.”

— Kevin Kelly

The way to turn our economy around is not by making rich people poorer, it's by making poor people richer.

— Marco Rubio

“Raising interest rates is voo-doo. You can't deal with a global system problem by trying to solve it with this.”

— Stafford Beer

We are strong believers in the growth prospects of the Indonesian economy, its positive consumer demographic trends and the growth of its…

— Haim Saban

I want to talk about jobs, the economy, foreclosures. I want to talk about energy prices.

— Dean Heller

Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.

— Thomas B. Macaulay