Economic Quotes

Innovations that drive lasting economic growth emerge from the most advanced science, mathematics and technology.

People never move towards revolution; they are pushed towards it by intolerable injustices in the economic and social order under which they live.

Walmart's Global Women's Economic Empowerment Initiative is working to create opportunity and empower women and girls in markets around the world.

Every country in Europe needs immigrants for its economic survival.

The moral sentiments that constrain economic life also promote it.

Coal research and development provides huge benefits for the nation, and pay for itself many times over through taxes flowing back to the Treasury from expanded economic activity.

I believe deeply that it's very important to the United States, to the economic health of the United States, that we maintain a strong dollar.

I'm fundamentally not interested in the Fortune 500 companies - in US, Mexico, anywhere. The real backbones of economic growth are small and medium businesses.

The increased global linkages promote economic growth in the world through two key mechanisms: the division of labor and the international spillovers of knowledge.

People like me who were engaging in brinkmanship with the party economic bosses and the open dissidents who were being arrested were pursuing a common goal in different ways.

To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westerners about what the market really means.

The main message we want to get out there is that climate change is caused by the rotten economic system.

Kiev's attempts to exert economic pressure on Donbas (region of east Ukraine) and disrupt its daily life only aggravates the situation. This is a dead-end track, fraught with a big catastrophe.

A lot of the interesting issues and dynamics within a city occur over things such as socio-economic issues or ethnic issues. But they require a much more elaborate model of human behavior.

Personal liberty without economic liberty is an absolute contradiction; the one cannot exist without the other.

I suggest to you that increasing the size of America's economic pie - which can be achieved only if everybody has a seat at the table - is the most important challenge facing our country today.

There is a long American tradition of suspicion of concentrated economic power because of its tendency to corrupt government and turn it from a democracy into a plutocracy.

Economic growth is not only unncessary, but ruinous.

Gorbachev was acutely aware of the [USSR] economic problems, and it was central to all he did. He wanted to change the system in hopes of saving it. In the end he could not.

You've got to have tax reform to get faster economic growth. Faster economic growth is necessary for us to get our debt under control.

The weak economy, widening income inequality, gridlock in Congress and a presidential election: Those were perhaps the dominant economic and political themes of 2012.

I do not know what horrified me most [during the depression]: the economic misery of my companions [or] their moral and ethical coarseness.

There's a sense of desperation in Afghanistan because of the lack of funding and the fact that the U.S. only has a one-track military strategy. It doesn't have an economic and political game plan.

The Government's first priority on coming to office was to secure long-term economic stability and put an end to the damaging cycle of boom and bust.

We live in a world in which celebrity recognition, media access, and power translate very quickly into political power and indeed economic power.

The economic times we are facing... are arguably the worst they've been in 60 years. And I think it's going to be more profound and long-lasting than people thought.

We live in a world where there is a need for pluralistic institutions and for recognizing different types of freedom, economic, social, cultural, and political, which are interrelated.

We are in a crisis today because the practical consensus between the left and the right, linking economic efficiency with social protection, has broken down

Economic globalization creates wealth, but only for the elite who benefit from the surge of consolidations, mergers, global scale technology, and financial activity.

Old men declare war because they have failed to solve complex political and economic problems.

Society's dependence on fossil fuels is jeopardising social and economic progress.

Because of the internet and communications, the clash of cultures is much more direct. People feel, I think, less certain about their identity, less certain about economic security.

It's never easy dealing with terrorists, but it must be done through a mixture of political, economic and administrative means.

When you're fighting for economic and social justice, you're always fighting for the minority.

Economists say the inability to delay gratification is a primary predictor of economic failure in life.

What we are going to do as Democrats is put together a really strong platform that focuses on jobs and economic issues.

Man is a means and not an end, and he is a means to economic or political ends which are not really ends in themselves but means to other ends which in their turn are means and so ad infinitum

Economic growth is the most important initiative every governor faces.

Scepticism and refusal of authority is at the heart of scientific endeavour. Scientific knowledge dictates economic possibilities

AIDS destroys families, decimates communities and, particularly in the poorest areas of the world, threatens to destabilize the social, cultural, and economic fabric of entire nations.

Economic storm is coming and the stress levels are going to increase because of financial worries.

The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.

I will always have enough money to last the rest of my life...as long as I don't buy anything.

History is replete with examples of empires mounting impressive military campaigns on the cusp of their impending economic collapse.

Formerly when a man worked ten hours a day, it was called economic slavery; nowadays it is called moonlighting.

The devastation of neoliberalism is so multi-fold, whether it's violence against women or desperate economic inequality or the destruction of the planet.

I'd be happy to have regular face-to-face meetings at Downing Street with David Cameron to argue the case for alternative economic policies.

The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism

Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.

Everyone is exposed to economic risks of some kind.