Economics Quotes

It was never my intention to marry anybody. Economics are basically the only reason to get married, but I'm very glad I did it.

Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a physical theory, a scientist would certainly be expected to give precise information?

As a scholarly discipline, economics has always suffered from physics envy.

If I could direct it [films] I would be very happy. But the economics of business don't always allow you to do what you want.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

...there were certain chapters when I stopped writing, saw the domestic situation I was in and thought, "I don't want to face this world, let's get back to the hellish one I'm imagining.

Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.

need is not demand. Effective economic demand requires not merely need but corresponding purchasing power.

While the invisible hand looks after the private sector, the invisible foot kicks the public sector to pieces.

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

The questions that are beyond the reach of economics-the beauty, dignity, pleasure and durability of life-may be inconvenient but they are important.

Didn't you take economics? You could have had me for $49.95.

...a discontinuity, like a vacuum, is abhorred by nature.

He had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind, including Frenchmen.

The agrarian crisis [in India] is an unnecessary tragedy, resulting directly from an economics of greed and a politics driven by the economies of greed.

If economists did not concern themselves with economic efficiency, nobody would.

The Gods are unkind and deny us knowledge of what the future holds

I think the world is becoming more global. Because of economics, you have to feed the demographics that are buying your product.

I have long aspired to make our company a noble prototype of industry, penetrating in science, reliable in engineering, creative in aesthetics and wholesomely prosperous in economics.

Climate change is not an environmental issue, but much more to do with security and economics

Economics is not an attempt to generalize human desires or human behavior; but to generalize the phenomena of price.

I've always been a big believer in the power of place. I believe that where we are affects who we are when it comes to happiness, spirituality, economics and creative genius.

To top it off, for those of you who are interested in the economics, it costs more to pursue a capital case toward execution than it does to have full life imprisonment without parole.

Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right.

Economics is about creating win-win situations. But in sports, someone loses.

Science advances funeral by funeral

My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology.

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 is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous.

I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.

I think I couldn't do what I do [live without money] without studying economics, because you need to understand the system first - how it currently works - in order to change it.

I suspected economics was irredeemable as a policy tool for citizens groups. I saw economics lead its practitioners and citizens alike into a form of brain-damaging indoctrination.

They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers.

Software engineering economics.

It's just economics 101: When it's free to pollute, you get more pollution. But when there's a price to pay, industry will have an incentive to find low-cost carbon solutions.

It at once struck me that under these circumstances favourable variations would tend to be preserved, and unfavourable ones to be destroyed.

The laws of economics tell us that the expansion of the central state can't go on forever. Its limit is reached when the looted turn on the looters.

Economics is not politics. One is a science, concerned with the immutable and constant laws of nature that determine the production and distribution of wealth; the other is the art of ruling.

We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism.

Economics is really politics in disguise.

I put forward a budget of what I called "middle-class economics" that continues to be fiscally prudent but makes necessary investments for us to continue the economic momentum and job growth.

Economics dominates politics - and with that domination comes different forms of ruthlessness.

Ecology is the overall science of which economics is a minor speciality.

However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.

Welcome to the wonderful world of economics. Everything precious in life has a cost.

Plays are getting smaller and smaller, not because playwrights minds are shrinking but because of the economics.

Justification for infidelity and dishonesty in all their manifestations lies in the marginal cost economics of “just this once.

Social security isn’t a ponzi scheme. It’s not bankrupting us. It’s not an outrage. It is working.

I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.

War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.