Economic Quotes
The gains made by better management and technology are still being outpaced by the environmental impacts of population and economic growth. We are on an unsustainable course.
The global economic outlook remains fragile and uncertain. Global economic imbalances persist and we must address them or risk future instability.
The struggle for life is not only the material and economic one. Comfort is no protection from anxiety.
I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism.
There is in my opinion a great similarity between the problems provided by the mysterious behavior of the atom and those provided by the present economic paradoxes confronting the world.
Our system - of debt-fueled economic growth, of ineffective democracy, of overloading planet Earth - is eating itself alive.
Like nature itself, modern economic life is driven by relentless competition and unbridled selfishness. Or is it?
I want to start by saying something nice about President Bush. Of all the presidents we've had with the last name of Bush, his economic plan ranks in the top two.
It is quite clear that compelling content, which is made available on economic terms that respect the intellectual rights of owners, can be a tremendous spur to the growth of broadband networks.
Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead, insist on applying the criterion of quality.
But our system of regulation must keep up with this. If it fails to keep up, it will hold back economic expansion. We need financial market regulation that works at national and European level.
Econometrics may be defined as the quantitative analysis of actual economic phenomena based on the concurrent development of theory and observation, related by appropriate methods of inference.
For economic safety for the future, you must have multiple skills and languages. Success is basically being the best that you can be.
The real bias of the media is not to the left or to the right, but to the thin strata of economic elites at the top of our society.
In economic life competition is never completely lacking, but hardly ever is it perfect.
By the numbers, by all the official records, here at the confluence of history, of racism, of poverty, and economic power, this is what our lives are worth: nothing.
Historically, filmmakers always fall in love with every frame, but now that even neophytes are given final cut, this love affair carries with it serious economic implications.
The basic idea was that if a country would put its economy as an integrated piece of the world system, that it would benefit from that with economic growth. I concur with that basic view.
Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
The only surprise about the economic crisis of 2008 was that it came as a surprise to so many.
The fact that industries wax and wane is a reality of any economic system that wants to remain dynamic and responsive to people's changing tastes.
Essentially we need a new social consensus for economic reform as New Labour has achieved in Britain.
I'm sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased in times of economic difficulty. As a matter of fact, a black man was lynched last year.
Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.
It has been shown that, in contrast to everything which classical national economy has hitherto taught, not the producer but the consumer is the ruling factor in economic life.
But the dollars spent on economic incentives and new investment strategies are wasted unless we seriously address the two most important economic issues in Kansas: education and health care
Because the world is in economic recession, which worsened since this drama happened, and our country will bear the burden of all of these consequences.
Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.
As women in industrial societies join the paid workforce, they gain the economic means to depart unhappy marriages more easily.
Let us face it: in the world today, money and economic strength remain more powerful arguments than the number of people you represent.
Beneath the surface, unnoticed by many, an even deeper force was at work—the rise of creativity as a fundamental economic driver, and the rise of a new social class, the Creative Class.
The globalization of the capital market is actually part of economic globalization. This will create a change in the entire world economy, not just restricted to some fields in some countries.
Our future begins on January 1 1999. The euro is Europe's key to the 21st century. The era of solo national fiscal and economic policy is over.
And the cornerstone of my economic policies, when I first got elected, was cutting taxes on everybody on who paid taxes.
America's highest economic need is higher ethical standards -- enforced by strict laws and upheld by responsible business leaders.
Whoever claims that economic competition represents survival of the fittest in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.
It's not about contraception. It's about economic liberty, it's about freedom of speech, it's about freedom of religion, it's about government control of your lives and it's got to stop!
One of the most original and most important ideas advanced by Hayek is the role of the 'division of knowledge' in economic society.
Trade is the oldest and most important economic nexus among nations. Indeed, trade along with war ha been central to the evolution of international relations.
A gasline will help shape our economic future - the same way that oil has shaped our economic present.
Private enterprise creates; government destroys. That is the great economic lesson of our times and all times.
When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should work for people, not vice versa.