Economics Quote by Alistair Darling Download Open image “Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy.” — Alistair Darling ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Economics Economy Finance Goal Goals Masters Money Real Servant
Finance is not merely about making money. It's about achieving our deep goals and protecting the fruits of our labor. It's about stewardship and,… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
Money should be ones demand and command one should not become slave of money.. — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
This is the greatest wealth we possess: to know how to direct our labors rightly. — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Economies are supposed to serve human ends.. not the other way round. We forget at our peril that markets make a good servant, a… — Amory Lovins Copy Share Image
No economy, no matter how bad, can hold down a goal that is followed by enough action. — Grant Cardone Copy Share Image
“We need to crush the Invisible Hand. The economy isn't a natural phenomenon. It is just a tool or a mean, that should be… — Jean Ziegler Copy Share Image
The central position of finance capital is going to come to an end, and it's going to steadily move to the sides, the margins… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
Let us learn the meaning of economy. Economy is a high human office,--a sacrament when its aim is grand, when it is the prudence… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As the worldly philosophers of the past affirmed, the goal of economics is to improve the way society functions. In The New Financial Order,… — Peter L. Bernstein Copy Share Image
We can use economic instruments to help realize our goals but economics does not tell us what our goals should be. — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
“The Bank [of Scotland] had tried to sell itself to a company run by TV evangelist Pat Robertson. That deal fell through, perhaps because… — Alistair Darling Copy Share Image
The question is not whether Scotland can survive as a separate state. Of course it could. — Alistair Darling Copy Share Image
As I said, there are two approaches-first, a strong economy, stability and helping families or, secondly, the Tory cuts, the undermining of stability, and… — Alistair Darling Copy Share Image
We were at the stage where in a very short period of time, one of the world's biggest banks would have to shut the… — Alistair Darling Copy Share Image
The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death. — Alistair Darling Copy Share Image
The economic times we are facing... are arguably the worst they've been in 60 years. And I think it's going to be more profound… — Alistair Darling Copy Share Image
Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery. — Alistair Darling Copy Share Image
Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many successes. — Alistair Darling Copy Share Image
The key thing that went wrong was that a culture was allowed to develop where the relationship between what people did and what they… — Alistair Darling Copy Share Image
On top of that, we have a healthy and stable economy and an end to the boom and bust that characterised the Tory years. — Alistair Darling Copy Share Image
“I told the Icelandic prime minister that it appeared that large sums of money had been taken out of the UK from the Kaupthing… — Alistair Darling Copy Share Image
We can't be in the business of carting fresh air around the country. — Alistair Darling Copy Share Image
Don't let's lose sight of what creates wealth. It is open markets, it is capitalism. — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say. — Mark Zandi Copy Share Image
Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture,… — Christopher Bond Copy Share Image
Our engagement through international economics, trade, these trade agreements, is vital and is linked to our national security. This is a lesson we learned… — Charles Boustany Copy Share Image
“The free-market economy and globalisation process have brought about, in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, a sharp and sudden rise in the… — Yaakov Malkin Copy Share Image
“Everything economic science posits as given, that is, the range of dispositions of the economic agent which ground the illusion of the ahistorical universality… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
Politics is about power. It is about the power of the state. It is about the power of the state as applied to individuals,… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
“a select group of high-performing companies have managed to close the strategy-to-performance gap through better planning and execution. These companies—Barclays, Cisco Systems, Dow Chemical,… — Michael C. Mankins Copy Share Image
The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image