Best Economics Sayings
1329 Economics quotes by 729 unique authors
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Investing is the intersection of economics and psychology.
— Seth Klarman
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To top it off, for those of you who are interested in the economics, it costs more to pursue a capital case toward execution than…
— Ralph Nader
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I have the same confidence in the ability of our people to reject noxious literature as I have in their capacity to sort out the…
— William O. Douglas
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Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.
— George Bernard Shaw
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When men are employed they are best contented.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Investment is a flighty bird which needs to be controlled.
— Sir John Richard Hicks
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Nothing so weakens a government as inflation.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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Why does a public discussion of economic policy so often show the abysmal ignorance of the participants?
— Robert Solow
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We might as well reasonably dispute whether it is the upper or the under blade of a pair of scissors that cuts a piece of…
— Alfred Marshall
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Lack of money is the root of of all evil.
— George Bernard Shaw
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The truth is never pure and rarely simple.
— Oscar Wilde
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Money is a machine for doing quickly and commodiously what would be done, though less quickly and commodiously, without it.
— John Stuart Mill
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There is always enough for the needy, there is never enough for the greedy.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Inflation is like toothpaste. Once it's out, you can hardly get it back in again.
— Unknown Author
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The best of all monopoly profits is a quiet life.
— Sir John Richard Hicks
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If it's free put me down for two please
— Rolf Harris
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It is here we come to the heart of the matter. The economic principle of comparative advantage', 'a country may, in return for manufactured commodities,…
— David Ricardo
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Thousands of important and intelligent men have never been able to grasp the principle of comparative advantage or believe it even after it was explained…
— Paul Samuelson
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If the gains from trade in commodities are substantial, they are small compared to trade in ideas
— David Landes
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It is not a zero sum game. The simple idea of the gains from trade lies at the heart of the modern and the ancient…
— Matt Ridley
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In a high tech world the cure for the tragic shortcomings and perilous fallacies of human intuition is education, but education in economics, evolutionary biology,…
— Steven Pinker
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The river of my title is a river of DNA, a river of information, not a river of bones and tissues
— Richard Dawkins
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We know that advanced economies with stable governments that borrow in their own currency are capable of running up very high levels of debt without…
— Paul Krugman
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The inscrutability [of economics] is perhaps not unintentional. It gives endless employment to dialecticians who otherwise might become public charges or, at very worst, swindlers…
— Jack Vance
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When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why buildings in the…
— Milton Friedman
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