Able Quote by John J. Sweeney

Henry Ford, in a sense, was the first Keynesian. He paid his assembly workers high wages so they could afford to buy his cars.

— Robert Kuttner

If we only have great companies, we will merely have a prosperous society, not a great one. Economic growth and power are the means,…

— Anonymous

“It seems madness to think that a society would rate marginal economic growth above a livable earth, but there you are. I had always…

— Bill Bryson

Henry Ford made a lot of money making cars at one time, but that was a small advantage to him compared to the benefit…

— George Stigler

“Salespeople move an economy of a nation. Someone could have invented the most amazing invention that is going to be a revolution for a…

— Michael Delaware

“The economists exploded the old tenets: that it is unfair and unjust to outdo a competitor by producing better and cheaper goods; that it…

— Ludwig von Mises

“This economy is based upon consumption, which ultimately serves, not the ordinary consumers, but a tiny class of excessively wealthy people for whose further…

— Wendell Berry

“Henry Ford achieved the highest throughput per worker of any car manufacturing company of his time.”

— Eliyahu M. Goldratt

“England achieved the breakthrough to growth. England’s growth followed from agricultural advances which increased incomes sufficiently that people started to demand more manufactured goods.”

— Edward A. Hudson

“Today it was commerce that Europe valued and it was the businessmen who, having exploited what the scientists and thechnologits had done for the…

— Stephen Fry

I agree with Dreher when he writes, 'we can't build anything good unless we live by the belief that man does not exist to…

— Paul Weyrich

It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or…

— N. R. Narayana Murthy