Economics Quotes

• Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

  Milton Friedman

  Freedom, Liberty, Libertarian

  Milton Friedman, Rose D. Friedman (2002). “Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition”, p.15, University of Chicago Press

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• Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Games, Play, Skills

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• Economics is the continuation of energy/resources by other means.

  Michael Ruppert

  Mean, Energy, Resources

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• The economy is not the problem, how people respond is the problem!

  Grant Cardone

  Inspirational, People, Entrepreneur

  FaceBook post by Grant Cardone from May 19, 2016

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• If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 02, 2016

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• Economics is a very dangerous science.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Dangerous

  John Maynard Keynes (1971). “The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes”

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• A nation is not made wealthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of it's people.

  Adam Smith

  People, Prosperity, Made

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• Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Life, People, Training

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• The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings

  Alfred Marshall

  Money, People, Investing

  Alfred Marshall (2009). “Principles of Economics: Unabridged Eighth Edition”, p.469, Cosimo, Inc.

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• In the long run men inevitably become the victims of their wealth. They adapt their lives and habits to their money, not their money to their lives. It preoccupies their thoughts, creates artificial needs, and draws a curtain between them and the world.

  Herbert Croly

  Running, Men, Long

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• One finds limits by pushing them.

  Herbert Simon

  Motivational, Inspiring, Business

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• We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.

  Milton Friedman

  Lazy, Society, Liberty

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• Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Philosophy, Political, Mass

  Frederic Bastiat (2014). “Sophisms of the Protectionists”, p.159, The Floating Press

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• A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Motivational, Business

  Mark Twain, R. Kent Rasmussen (1997). “The quotable Mark Twain: his essential aphorisms, witticisms & concise opinions”, McGraw-Hill/Contemporary

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• But what I really believe is education is a key to pretty much everything - prosperity, economics, peace, stability.

  Greg Mortenson

  Believe, Keys, Prosperity

  "Humanitarian Greg Mortenson". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. February 11, 2009.

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• Each step in life has been another step in an area that was a challenge, that is highly satisfying and that gives you a great sense of pride afterwards.

  Graeme Samuel

  Business, Pride, Giving

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• Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws.

  Mayer Amschel Rothschild

  Money, Writing, Issues

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• There are only three ways by which any individual can get wealth — by work, by gift or by theft. And, clearly, the reason why the workers get so little is that the beggars and thieves get so much.

  Henry George

  Money, Work, Way

  "Social Problems".

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• A competitive world offers two possibilities. You can lose. Or, if you want to win, you can change.

  Lester Thurow

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

  Thomas Sowell

  Scarcity, Lessons, Politics

  Thomas Sowell (1993). “Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• The "human condition" is always to push forward for the better and economics is the study of that process.

  Brian Wesbury

  Study, Process, Human Condition

  Brian Wesbury (1999). “The New Era of Wealth: How Investors Can Profit From the 5 Economic Trends Shaping the Future”, p.15, McGraw Hill Professional

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• One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.

  Milton Friedman

  Mistake, Judging, Politics

  Interview with Richard Heffner on "The Open Mind", December 7, 1975.

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• Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanction of political authority is not necessary for its existence. Certain commodities came to be money quite naturally, as the result of economic relationships that were independent of the power of the state.

  Carl Menger

  Money, Independent, Power

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• We cannot choose between [economic] growth and sustainability - we must have both

  Paul Polman

  Business, Choices, Growth

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• Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Money, War, Revolution

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