Economy Quotes

Cheap booze is a false economy.

Competition works best in sports, but humans get addicted to stuff.

How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult?

To not say all that can be said is the secret of discipline and economy.

One good test of whether an economy is humanistic or not is the plausibility of earning the ability to drop out of it for a while without incident or insult.

Small business is the backbone of our economy. I'm for big business, too. But small business is where the jobs are generated.

The failure of Lehman may have allowed the government to do more to prop up the economy than it otherwise could.

Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.

Will not collect a ransom in exchange for not crashing the American economy.

[Young people] are much less likely to express attitudes that defied us between us and them. They see themselves as part of a global economy that they can navigate successfully.

In a global economy where our economies and supply chains are deeply integrated, it's not even possible.

Some mythological fat asswipe drives our national economy.

I walked away from Kyoto because it would damage America's economy, you bet. It would have destroyed our economy. It was a lousy deal for the American economy. I felt there was a better way.

The most pressing and significant problems in the global economy are unsustainable structural issues with regard to the E.U. - fiscal deficits and the structure of the E.U. itself.

A market economy cannot thrive absent the well-being of average people, even in a gilded age.

In the market economy the price that is offered is counted upon to produce the result that is sought.

I don't think anyone can speculate what will happen with respect to oil prices and gas prices because they are set on the global economy.

Servile labour disappeared because it could not stand the competition of free labour; its un-profitability sealed its doom in the market economy.

We're in a tightening cycle and the reason is the economy is growing, there's no expectation that the global economy and the Polish economy as a consequence could slow down dramatically.

[Hillary] Clinton is much more embracing of the global economy and the international world order. [Ben] Sanders and [Scott] Warren are much less so.

I think the economy in the US has surprised. The old adage is that if America sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold. If the US economy does well, the global economy will do well.

America is stronger than Russia. Our economy is 16 times larger than the Russian economy.

India is a 2 trillion dollar economy today. Can we not dream of an India with a 20 trillion dollar economy?

Open borders and the never-ending parade of illegal immigrants does nothing to build the national economy or the American culture.

In an unmolested market economy - one where all dealings are consensual - the 'allocation' of wealth and income is the result of transactions.

When you do business, you have to depend on other countries. This is the global economy.

The patient that's on the floor with the cardiac arrest is not Wall Street. It's the American economy.

We can fight the global economy with a strong local economy.

Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we'll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy.

Rising inequality can create a more highly leveraged economy, and it can then make the economy vulnerable to a crash like 2008.

Tonight Illinois has set a tone for the nation, that we won't stand idle hoping that our economy improves. This is a brand new day for the Illinois Republican Party.

The fact is that the economy is really posed for the kind of recovery that people can see and understand.

I am concerned about the economy. I was the first one laid off.

Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts it will have a larger economy than Germany by 2042.

We as central bankers need not be concerned if a collapsing financial asset bubble does not threaten to impair the real economy, its production, jobs and price stability.

I love facts and figures. It's like following a detective story, piecing together what's going on in the economy.

Whatever you tax you get less of.

Today China is a first world economy, in terms of development. The U.S. may still be in first in GDP but it is a broken economy in reality.

Conservatives have long argued, correctly, that 'fine-tuning' the economy is a chimera, but that argument seems to have disappeared from the conservative handbook.

The insistence of European leaders to austerity policies keeps the European economy strapped in stagnation.

Only in more production and in new production can the American standard of living be increased and the economy be sound.

Turkey's economy is powerful enough to tackle tough times.

Turkey is widely envied while there are very serious troubles in the world economy.

Not only is orderliness an economy; it produces rest.

As I said, there are two approaches-first, a strong economy, stability and helping families or, secondly, the Tory cuts, the undermining of stability, and a return to the boom and bust of the 1990s.

The market economy succeeds not because some people's interests are suppressed and other people are kept out of the market, but because people gain individual advantage from it.

Issues of the economy are profoundly affected by how you live out sexual orientation and gender identity.

The economy is not removed from the way you live out your private life.

Coolidge showed that the best government was the one that got out of the way. When he refrained, the economy grew, the Ku Klux Klan faded, and Americans got Model A's and automobiles.

Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy delude themselves and the citizens. Government budgets promote human freedom.