Builder Quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt

We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.

— Anonymous

We now know that anything which is economically right is also morally right. There can be no conflict between good economics and good morals.

— Henry Ford

Economics that hurt the moral well-being of an individual or a nation are immoral and, therefore, sinful.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The moral sentiments that constrain economic life also promote it.

— Ted Malloch

Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can be too moral.

— Thomas Sowell

“This, of course, is the big dance of capitalism: how to keep morality from gumming up the gears of profit, how to convince people…

— Steve Almond

“Rational self-interest is always what morality boils down to.”

— Rebecca Goldstein

Politicians and corporations have always placed economic interests above moral interests. This is now hurting the entire planet.

— Marianne Thieme

“Morality means sacrificing your personal interest for the interest of the group and being immoral means keeping the interest of the self above the…

— Awdhesh Singh

Morals are a luxury of the rich.

— George Bernard Shaw

“Surely it is better that the immoral learn morality through adversity than that the moral forget morality in prosperity.”

— isaac asimov

Along with others, I have tried to pry economists away from narrow assumptions about self interest. Behavior is driven by a much richer set…

— Gary Becker