Economics Quotes

In the global marketplace of the future the price of every product will tell the ecological truth.

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

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.

I got politics and economics moving and then others took over.

Innovations until now conceived by no one at all

I was an economics major in college, and every summer after school, I would drive my car from California, from Claremont men's college at the time, to New York. And I worked on Wall Street.

But my shift to the serious study of economics gradually weakened my belief in Major Douglas's A+B theorem, which was replaced in my thought by the expression MV = PT.

I'm not a communist, of course. But I do think that everything is down to economics. Capitalism doesn't change.

Economics is a form of brain damage.

Equality of opportunity is meaningless for those who do not have the capabilities to take advantage of it.

The concept of a general equilibrium has no relevance to the real world (in other words, classical economics is an exercise in futility).

For every mountain there is another one. The big question is if you reach the top of the mountain, what then? What do you do then? I suppose you die.

The addability of the happiness of different subjects is a postulum without which all political reasonings are at a stand

While Argentina, Brazil, and Chile - what in textbooks used to be called the ABC countries - seem settled into democratic politics and free market economics, the Andean countries are in disarray.

I learned that economics was not an exact science and that the most erudite men would analyze the economic ills of the world and derive a totally different conclusion.

First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.

We cannot hope to achieve full employment and sustain it until we have mastered inflation.

Any system of economics is bankrupt if it sees either value or virtue in unemployment.

One of the Great Rules of Economics According to John Green If you are rich, you have to be an idiot not to stay rich. And if you are poor, you have to be really smart to get rich.

The Greens will continue to champion a fairer society rather than simply the economy and to champion the parliament rather than simply the stock exchange .

While economics is about how people make choice, sociology is about how they don't have any choice to make.

Economics is not brain surgery.

The economic repercussions of a stock market crash depend less on the severity of the crash itself than on the response of economic policymakers, particularly central bankers.

Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.

The federal budget deficit is the biggest single impediment to revitalizing the American economy.

Though a simple book can be written on selected topics, the central doctrines of economics are not simple and cannot be made so.

There can be no question, however, that prolonged commitment to mathematical exercises in economics can be damaging. It leads to the atrophy of judgement and intuition. . .

Man is a perpetually wanting animal.

We have one asset, and that's people.

I think there is universal agreement within the economics profession that the decline - the sharp decline in the quantity of money played a very major role in producing the Great Depression.

Positive economics is in principle independent of any particular ethical position or normative judgment...In short, positive economics is or can be an "objective" science.

My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner.

All of the problems we're facing with debt are manmade problems. We created them. It's called fantasy economics. Fantasy economics only works in a fantasy world. It doesn't work in reality.

The truth is never pure and rarely simple.

Only a true faith that applies God’s Word to everything-incl uding economics-will lead to the revival and reformation our culture needs so badly.

When we refer to 'the biblical approach to economics' or the biblical response to politics' or 'biblical womanhood,' we're using the Bible as a weapon disguised as an adjective.

You can have a wages policy imposed by mass unemployment.

Economics spreads happiness.

I really don't see any influence of my work on any artists. But I do think I've had an influence on drawings' being shown. I've had an influence on the economics of it.

Mathematics brought rigor to Economics. Unfortunately, it also brought mortis.

First, I think the science of monetary economics has clearly gotten better.

Everybody thinks of economics whether he is aware of it or not. In joining a political party or in casting his ballot, the citizen implicitly takes a stand upon essential economic theories.

I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers: Go ahead, make my day.

Bad times are indelible. They stay with you forever.

The use of mathematics has brought rigor to economics. Unfortunately, it has also brought mortis.

For in the theoretical field bourgeois economics no longer engages in blithe and joyous fights.

The study of economics has been again and again led astray by the vain idea that economics must proceed according to the pattern of other sciences.

Every nation on the Earth that embraces market economics and the free enterprise system is pulling millions of its people out of poverty. The free enterprise system creates prosperity, not denies it.

No one spends someone elses money as carefully as he spends his own.

Investing is the intersection of economics and psychology.