Average Quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt

Good economic theory must give the people the chance to use their talents to build their own lives. We must get away from the…

— Muhammad Yunus

“Usually when people talk about the trickle-down theory, it has to do with economics. The richer people at the top of a society become,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Wealth has more and more increased, and at the same time gathered itself more and more into masses, strangely altering the old relations, and…

— Thomas Carlyle

The rich get richer. Not only because they have surpluses with which to invest, but because of the overriding emotional release they experience from…

— Stuart Wilde

Traditionally in capitalism, when you have more cash, you can fund more activity, which produces more jobs and creates more wealth. That's basic economic…

— John Ralston Saul

Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics stands in…

— John Maynard Keynes

“Classical economists assume that people have rational and stable preferences and that their well-being is greatest when they have the maximum opportunities to satisfy…

— Nic Marks

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

— Abraham Lincoln

Some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater…

— Anonymous

In financial terms, my sense is that the distribution of wealth, unequal as it is, is self-perpetuating, and, especially in a linked and accelerating…

— Pico Iyer

The purpose of economic theory is to make those who are comfortable FEEL comfortable.

— Thomas Balogh, Baron Balogh

Men become richer not only by increasing their existing wealth but also by decreasing their expenditure.

— Aristotle