Economy Quotes - Page 3

• It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.

  F. H. Bradley

  Sympathy, Wise, Suffering

  "Aphorisms". Book by F. H. Bradley (Aphorism No. 22), 1930.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Public education is the key civil rights issue of the 21st century. Our nation's knowledge-based economy demands that we provide young people from all backgrounds and circumstances with the education and skills necessary to become knowledge workers. If we don't, we run the risk of creating an even larger gap between the middle class and the poor. This gap threatens our democracy, our society and the economic future of America.

  Eli Broad

  Running, Work, Issues

  7 Copy quote

• The country is now universally recognised as a nation on the move and takes its place amongst the successful economies in the region. The future potential is enormous but the country's destiny is in our hands. The time has come to move from small increments to bold, large initiatives. The time has come to stretch the envelope and set goals which were earlier not seen to be possible. The time has come for performance to be measured and for allocated funds of the government to reach the people for whom they were intended.

  Ratan Tata

  Inspirational, Country, Moving

  32 Copy quote

• Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, On the one hand on the other.

  Harry S. Truman

  Business, Hands, Giving

  10 Copy quote

• The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.

  H. G. Wells

  Fog, Gathering, Valleys

  H. G. Wells (2016). “A Modern Utopia”, p.66, H. G. Wells

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the model that we grew up with, governments rule physical territory in which national economies function, and strong economies support hegemonic military power. In the new model, already emerging under our noses, economic decisions don't pay much attention to national sovereignty in a world where more than half of the one hundred or two hundred largest economic entities are not countries but companies.

  Amory Lovins

  Country, Strong, Military

  18 Copy quote

• There's no denying that a collapse in stock prices today would pose serious macroeconomic challenges for the United States. Consumer spending would slow, and the U.S. economy would become less of a magnet for foreign investors. Economic growth, which in any case has recently been at unsustainable levels, would decline somewhat. History proves, however, that a smart central bank can protect the economy and the financial sector from the nastier side effects of a stock market collapse.

  Ben Bernanke

  Smart, Challenges, Growth

  "A Crash Course for Central Bankers" by Ben Bernanke, foreignpolicy.com. Novemeber 20, 2009.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• You know, in this business, you don't have any control over what the press says and how they portray things. And that's their prerogative. But I think anybody who looks at it objectively has trouble making the case that somehow this is a bad economy.

  Dick Cheney

  Thinking, Looks, Trouble

  Interview With Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. June 25, 2004.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Given the current state of our finances, we could sure use a quarter of a trillion dollars a year recycling through the U.S. economy rather than through the economies of Iran, Russia, and Venezuela.

  T. Boone Pickens

  Russia, Iran, Years

  13 Copy quote

• We no longer see the world as a single entity. We've moved to cities and we think the economy is what gives us our life, that if the economy is strong we can afford garbage collection and sewage disposal and fresh food and water and electricity. We go through life thinking that money is the key to having whatever we want, without regard to what it does to the rest of the world.

  David Suzuki

  Life, Strong, Thinking

  14 Copy quote

• I've never believed protectionism of that kind will lead us anywhere. I think you can have certain specific rules for engaging with India.. for example, not allowing mineral resources to be taken out of the country.. but there is not a shred of doubt in my mind that when you open an economy you should do it in totality. Foreign investment adds a sense of competition; we should see this as a wake-up call to modernise and upgrade. Companies that do not will undoubtedly die.

  Ratan Tata

  Country, Taken, Thinking

  30 Copy quote

• In my judgment, we have to avoid, at all costs, tax increases. That would be the worst possible thing to do and will make a bad economy even worse. Beyond that, targeted tax relief should be expanded upon.

  Meg Whitman

  Relief, Would Be, Cost

  7 Copy quote

• We can't speak day after day about globalization without at the same time having in mind that...we need multilateral solutions.

  Dominique Strauss-Kahn

  Mind, Needs, Speak

  7 Copy quote

• President Bush said it's now time for a change in Iraq and he wants them to have a Western-style democracy like ours. So right now in Iraq, the economy is collapsing, businessmen are corrupt, and Hussein wants his son to take over as president. Sounds like mission accomplished.

  Jay Leno

  Change, Son, Iraq

  10 Copy quote

• 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 .

  Bob Brown

  Ambition, Champion, Economics

  7 Copy quote

• It has been shown that, in contrast to everything which classical national economy has hitherto taught, not the producer but the consumer is the ruling factor in economic life.

  Hjalmar Schacht

  Taught, Economic, Ruling

  "Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression" by the United States Department of State, Vol. 2, (p. 746), 1946.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.

  Milton Friedman

  Freedom, People, Together

  15 Copy quote

• Some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naive trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system.

  Pope Francis

  Economic Inequality, Justice, People

  "The Joy of the Gospel: Evangelii Gaudium". Book by Pope Francis, w2.vatican.va. November 26, 2013.

  60 Copy quote

  Show source

• As Congress continues to debate ways to address illegal immigration, we must remember the many hard-working legal immigrants that contribute so much to our nation's economy and culture.

  Bob Filner

  Hard Work, Immigration, Culture

  47 Copy quote

• The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.

  Milton Friedman

  Depression, Government, Unemployment

  Milton Friedman (2009). “Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition”, p.38, University of Chicago Press

  37 Copy quote

  Show source

• In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Faith, Desire, Economics

  The New York Times Magazine, June 07, 1970.

  29 Copy quote

  Show source

• The last thing they want is a revitalized economy now. I'm not saying the Democrats don't want a strong economy. Don't misunderstand. They just don't want it now.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Strong, Want, Lasts

  7 Copy quote

• In art economy is always beauty.

  Henry James

  Beauty, Art, Editing

  The Altar of the Dead preface (1909)

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I find that because of modern technological evolution and our global economy, and as a result of the great increase in population, our world has greatly changed: it has become much smaller. However, our perceptions have not evolved at the same pace; we continue to cling to old national demarcations and the old feelings of 'us' and 'them'.

  Dalai Lama

  Our World, Feelings, Perception

  The Dalai Lama, Nicholas Vreeland (2002). “An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life”, p.12, Hachette UK

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy.

  Michael C. Burgess

  Environmental, Energy, Needs

  24 Copy quote