Business Quote by Joseph A. Schumpeter

There has always been, and there always will be, an economic cycle.

— Nigel Lawson

The notion that economic life is a distinct realm, governed by immutable laws of narrow self-interest, is giving way to a much older notion:…

— Frances Moore Lappé

It is impossible to understand the economic system in which we are living if we try to interpret it as a rational scheme.It has…

— Edwin Arlington Robinson

We need to abandon the economist's notion of the economy as a machine, with its attendant concept of equilibrium. A more helpful way of…

— Paul Ormerod

The term 'business cycle' is imprecise. Economic fluctuations affect everyone, not just businesses, and they are, unlike astral cycles, anything but regular.

— Kevin Hassett

Economy is the art of making the most of life.

— Gary Becker

My belief is that the purpose of economic life is to meet the social needs of people.

— Maurice Strong

Economics becomes redundant if it can rationalise an exchange that sells the future of humankind.

— Andrew Simms

Though my heart may be left of centre, I have always known that the only economic system that works is a market economy... This…

— Vaclav Havel

“An economy is a "noosphere" (a mind-based system), and it can revive as quickly as minds and policies can change.”

— George Gilder

By putting business before every other manifestation of life, our mechanical and financial civilization has forgotten the chief business of life: namely, growth, reproduction,…

— Lewis Mumford

An economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human.

— Edward Abbey