Economy Quotes

It is unlikely that you'll have anything emerge from MEF (Major Economies Forum) by way of detailed programmatic specificity.

Societies advance through innovation every bit as much as economies do.

Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.

We want a system in which the worker shall get what he produces and the capitalist shall produce what he gets.

Today, more than ever, we need political leaders who can see the big picture, who understand the relationship between the economy and its environmental support systems.

Defense is superior to opulence.

The best way to boost the economy is to redistribute wealth downward, as poorer people tend to spend a higher proportion of their income.

The greatest competitive advantage in our modern economy is a positive and engaged brain.

Each economy relies on the credit system, that is, on the erroneous assumption that the other will pay back money pumped.

Today President Obama gave a major speech where he defended his handling of the economy. And there were tons of people in the audience, you know, since nobody had to be at work.

Numerals are images of amounts. But the amounts they represent are real.

The problem of the modern economy is not a failure of a knowledge of economics; it's a failure of a knowledge of history.

In my home state of Indiana we prove every day that you can build a growing economy on balanced budgets, low taxes.

The world will not end. This is ridiculous. I think it's like 2000. It's a great trick to do business and earn lots of money because stupid people hoard things. This is a stimulator of the economy.

College students today are drowning in debt, and it is hurting them and hurting our economy. We must find a way to help families pay for college without condemning them to a lifetime of indebtedness.

Europe should stick to an open economy, to competition and we should refuse protectionism. It will not save one single job in the long run to protect non-competitive industries.

Giving triggers social cohesion. It's also the basis for an economy not based on money.

I was sort of a sissy as a little kid.

Clearly, the Global Economy isn't working for workers in China and Indonesia and Burma any more than it is for workers here in the United States.

In todays uncertain economy, the safest solution to be wealthy, be in total control and enjoy freedom for you and your family is to have multiple streams of income.

I will work to restore fiscal responsibility to our country's budget and to provide for a more robust economy.

Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.

A sense of thrift is essential to success in business. The businessman must discipline himself to practice economy whenever possible, in his personal life as well as his business affairs.

What is surprising is not that oppression should make its appearance only after higher forms of economy have been reached, but that it should always accompany them.

The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.

Stop trying to predict the direction of the stock market, the economy or elections.

People understand that the economy is rigged. They're working longer hours for low wages. All new income and wealth, almost all, is going to the people on top.

I think there's definitely billions and billions in waste, fraud and abuse. There's billions that can be generated in the economy by eliminating the bureaucracy.

Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own.

The [Communist] Party has one objective: the creation of a socialist economy; and one means: the utilization of the class struggle.

This is a basic requirement the meaning of globalization is that we should admit that the economy of each country is dependent on the economy of all the others.

An economy where advertisers thrive while journalists and artists struggle, reflects the values of a society more interested in deception and manipulation than in truth and beauty

In an economy where the only certainty is uncertainty, the one sure source of lasting competitive advantage is knowledge.

Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not.

Since our economy is closely allied with that of foreign countries, not one of us can be indifferent to what consequences these disturbances can have at home and abroad

I was not an outstanding student. I did a reasonable amount of work. I got generally good - pretty good grades, but I was not that passionate about getting straight A's.

I think that one thing that people are missing is that we are never going to be able to fix this country's [American] economy in the long run until we fix our public education system.

The foundation is being laid for the emergence of both wind and solar cells as cornerstones of the new energy economy.

Because of what's going on with the economy, I think women are realizing that maybe they don't need a closet full of clothes. They just need the right clothes.

It's time to transition beyond our fossil fuel addiction to a just economy based on green jobs, renewable energy, and local organic food.

Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return.

Long-term unemployment can make any worker progressively less employable, even after the economy strengthens.

You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes.

With deregulation, one sector of the economy after another is "liberated" to capital's unmonitored authority. The very notion that there is a public interest is contested.

The American taxpayer should not be treated more shabbily than debtors from other nations and we should be encouraging other nations to help rebuild Iraq's economy.

I am concerned about any attrition in customer traffic at Starbucks, but I don't want to use the economy, commodity prices or consumer confidence as an excuse.

If we went into stores only when we needed to buy something, and if once there we bought only what we needed, the economy would collapse, boom.

There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread of life and starves their souls.

Right now, the government is spending billions of dollars supporting the problem-makers in the U.S. economy - the polluters, despoilers, incarcerators, and warmongers.

Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others.