Economics Quote by Frank A. Clark Download Open image “Our economy is based upon people wanting more; their happiness on wanting less.” — Frank A. Clark ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Economics Economy Happiness People Wanting more
Our economy is based on spending billions to persuade people that happiness is buying things, and then insisting that the only way to have… — Philip Slater Copy Share Image
Economists typically think that your happiness goes up as you get more money, but the more you have, the less each additional dollar matters.… — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
There is a paradox at the heart of our lives. Most people want more income and strive for it. Yet as Western societies have… — Richard Layard, Baron Layard Copy Share Image
It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
When your economy is kind of ooching along, it's important to let people have more of their own money. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Markets help people pursue their happiness more efficiently and effectively. Because they are so effective, markets provide benefits right here and right now, even… — Joel Miller Copy Share Image
“The incremental value of wealth declines as we become richer. Yet people keep on accumulating it. They think that more is better. Hence, when… — Awdhesh Singh Copy Share Image
Certainly it is true that the constant striving for something better-the price of progress-adds to the total of human happiness. It stimulates industry by… — John Willys Copy Share Image
A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once. — Frank A. Clark Copy Share Image
Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy. — Frank A. Clark Copy Share Image
The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it. — Frank A. Clark Copy Share Image
If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere. — Frank A. Clark Copy Share Image
A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from… — Frank A. Clark Copy Share Image
We would be happier with what we have if we weren't so unhappy about what we don't' have — Frank A. Clark Copy Share Image
If you haven't time to help youngsters find the right way in life, somebody with more time will help them find the wrong way. — Frank A. Clark Copy Share Image
The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with. — Frank A. Clark Copy Share Image
You seldom come across anything more enjoyable than a happy person. — Frank A. Clark Copy Share Image
Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food. — Frank A. Clark 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
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
The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“Economists have a singular method of procedure. There are only two kinds of institutions for them, artificial and natural. The institutions of feudalism are… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
