Economy Quotes - Page 29

• 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.

  Paco Underhill

  Stores, Collapse, Needed

  Paco Underhill (2009). “Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping--Updated and Revised for the Internet, the Global Consumer, and Beyond”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• Every tax cut I call for is targeted, it's responsible and it is paid for within my balanced budget plan. My tax cuts will not undermine our economy. They will speed economic growth.

  William J. Clinton

  Cutting, Growth, Speed

  Clinton, William J. (1997). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1412, Best Books on

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• If you bring [tax] rates down, it makes it easier for small business to keep more of their capital and hire people. And for me, this is about jobs. I want to get America's economy going again. Fifty-four percent of America's workers work in businesses that are taxed as individuals. So when you bring those rates down, those small businesses are able to keep more money and hire more people.

  Mitt Romney

  Jobs, America, People

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• Drawing a comparison to football, it could be said that the Spanish economy has, during this legislature, into the Champions League of the world economy, however bad that may seem to some.

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

  Football, Champions League, Drawing

  Speech in the Congress of Deputies, September 11, 2007.

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• The opinions that the price of commodities depends solely on the proportion of supply and demand, or demand to supply, has become almost an axiom in political economy, and has been the source of much error in that science.

  David Ricardo

  Errors, Political, Demand

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1852). “The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch”, p.232

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• Until the Great Depression, most economists clung to a vision of capitalism as a perfect or nearly perfect system. That vision wasn’t sustainable in the face of mass unemployment, but as memories of the Depression faded, economists fell back in love with the old, idealized vision of an economy in which rational individuals interact in perfect markets.

  Paul Krugman

  Memories, Perfect, Vision

  "How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?". www.nytimes.com. September 2, 2009.

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• The well-being of the British people and the health of our economy are far more important than any government's commitment to a particular strategy, but to change course now would be fatal to the whole counter-inflation strategy.

  Geoffrey Howe

  Commitment, Government, People

  "Chancellor determined not to change course in the fight against inflation". The Times, March 11, 1981.

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• At the turn of the [21st] century it was really Sergey Brin at Google who just had the thought of, well, if we give away all the information services, but we make money from advertising, we can make information free and still have capitalism. But the problem with that is it reneges on the social contract where people still participate in the formal economy. And it's a kind of capitalism that's totally self-defeating because it's so narrow. It's a winner-take-all capitalism that's not sustaining.

  Jaron Lanier

  Self, People, Giving

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• Our economy is a hundred times better, than the average African economy. Outside South Africa, what country is [as good as] Zimbabwe?.. What is lacking now are goods on the shelves - that is all.

  Robert Mugabe

  Country, Average, Zimbabwe

  Interview with Heidi Holland, December 2007.

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• Most people, I suspect, still have in their minds an image of America as the great land of college education, unique in the extent to which higher learning is offered to the population at large. That image used to correspond to reality. But these days young Americans are considerably less likely than young people in many other countries to graduate from college. In fact, we have a college graduation rate that's slightly below the average across all advanced economies.

  Paul Krugman

  Country, Unique, Reality

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• America is now a socialist economy. The definition of a socialist economy is when 50% or more of your economy is dependent on the federal government.

  Christine O'Donnell

  Government, Socialist Economy, America

  YouTube Chanel "NaughtButEddie"/ "Politically Incorrect August 1998 Part 1 of 2 Eddie Izzard Christine O'Donnell", www.youtube.com. June 21, 2009.

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• Our anti-crisis policy is aimed at supporting domestic demand, providing social guarantees for the population, and creating new jobs. Like many countries, we have reduced production taxes, leaving money in the economy. We have optimised state spending.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Jobs, Honesty

  Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s Speech at the Opening Ceremony of the World Economic Forum, archive.premier.gov.ru. January 28, 2009.

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• The finance enchains with golden bonds states and peoples, the economy becomes nomadic, the life uprooted.

  Alfred Rosenberg

  Golden, Finance, States

  "The Myth of the Twentieth Century". Book by Alfred Rosenberg, p. 1, 1930.

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• Like all other contracts, wages should be left to the fair and free competition of themarket, and should never be controlled by the interference of the legislature.

  David Ricardo

  Wisdom, Competition, Wages

  1817 Principles of Political Economy andTaxation.

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• If we are to transition to a new economy and to lead it, we must start by transforming our schools.

  Tom Vilsack

  School, Transition, Transforming

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• Small businesses are the lifeblood of our economy.

  Tom Vilsack

  Small Business

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• I hate writing. I so intensely hate writing - I cannot tell you how much. The moment I am at the end of one project I have the idea that I didn't really succeed in telling what I wanted to tell, that I need a new project - it's an absolute nightmare. But my whole economy of writing is in fact based on an obsessional ritual to avoid the actual act of writing.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Hate, Writing, Ideas

  "Conversations with Žižek". Book by Slavoj Žižek and Glyn Daly, 2004.

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• One of my heroes, almost necessarily from what I'm saying, of course, is Borges, who is a supreme master of doing thing -- being a data bank -- and the beauty of this economy is that he could have written War and Peace in three or four pages; who knows, it might have been a better book.

  Peter Greenaway

  War, Book, Hero

  Interview in Art and Design, no. 49,

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• Nobody disputes that cheap natural gas would be a good thing for the economy. The question is, is this a sustainable new development that can be counted on for decades to come, or simply a 'bubble' brought on by a land grab and drilling frenzy?

  Jeff Goodell

  Land, Would Be, Development

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• Wherefore it is impossible to succeed in comparing wealth of different eras or different nations. This, in political economy, like squaring the circle in mathematics, is impracticable, for want of a common mean or measure to go by.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Mean, Circles, Political

  Jean Baptiste Say (1827). “A treatise on political economy: or, The production, distribution and consumption of wealth”, p.191

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• Accidents have already become an important factor restricting the development of a harmonious economy and society, and have attracted the strong attention of the Chinese government and society

  Li Yizhong

  Strong, Government, Chinese

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• You have given us something more than money, you have given us a lot of your sons, your children that were killed beside our own children in Iraq. Iraqi people are insistent on going along the path for their economy and their security, but we do need the help of other countries who will help us, to stand beside us.

  Ibrahim al-Jaafari

  Country, Children, Son

  "CNN Live Today", www.cnn.com. June 24, 2005.

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• What is doing the damage is the fact that the U.K. is pulling in more imports, which shows the continued strength of the economy and the strength of sterling.

  Adam Cole

  Damage, Facts, Importance

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• The fundamental differences between Marxian and traditional orthodox economics are, first, that the orthodox economists accept the capitalist system as part of the eternal order of Nature, while Marx regards it as a passing phase in the transition from the feudal economy of the past to the socialist economy of the future.

  Joan Robinson

  Nature, Money, Work

  Joan Robinson (1967). “Essay on Marxian Economics”, p.1, Springer

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• Have I ever remarked on how completely ridiculous it is to ask high school students to decide what they want to do with the rest of their lives and give them nearly no support in doing so? Support like, say, spending a day apiece watching twenty different jobs and then another week at their top three choices, with salary charts and projections and probabilities of graduating that subject given their test scores? The more so considering this is a central allocation question for the entire economy?

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Jobs, School, Giving

  "Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Memetic Hazards in Videogames - Less Wrong". lesswrong.com. September 10, 2010.

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