Bankers Quote by David Rockefeller

There is an old saying, or should be, that it is a wise economist who recognizes the scope of his own generalizations.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“the ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood.…

— John Maynard Keynes

“The study of human institutions is always a search for the most tolerable imperfections.”

— Richard Allen Epstein

“The accumulation of great fortunes calls for POWER, and power is acquired through highly organized and intelligently directed specialized knowledge, but that knowledge does…

— Napoleon Hill

Today we are raised with the notion that to be secure is to be financially autonomous. Amassing wealth is viewed as the primary rite…

— Jeremy Rifkin

I don't ascribe to myself any special competence in economic insight. I translate what I hear from highly intelligent people into political and philosophical…

— Henry Kissinger

“What makes it difficult for the average man to be a universalist is that the average man has to be a specialist; he has…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Absolute autonomy inevitably leads to tyranny.”

— Jack Provonsha

“I sympathize, therefore, with those who would minimize, rather than with those who would maximize, economic entanglement among nations. Ideas, knowledge, science, hospitality, travel--these…

— John Maynard Keynes

“No natural forces determine income, wealth, and the quality of human life. We make the decisions about who will prosper and who will not—or…

— David Cay Johnston

“it is a maxim founded on the universal experience of mankind that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is bound by…

— Ron Chernow

“Because elites dominating extractive institutions fear creative destruction, they will resist it, and any growth that germinates under extractive institutions will be ultimately short…

— Daron Acemoğlu