Economy Quotes - Page 5

• Economy is half the battle in life, but it is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well. Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Money, Battle, Half

  "John Ploughman's Talks".

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• Over the years, the U.S. economy has shown a remarkable ability to absorb shocks of all kinds, to recover, and to continue to grow. Flexible and efficient markets for labor and capital, an entrepreneurial tradition, and a general willingness to tolerate and even embrace technological and economic change all contribute to this resiliency.

  Ben Bernanke

  Change, Technology, Years

  "Letting the air out". www.economist.com. November 19, 2008.

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• According to the Bank of England the economy is growing too fast so interest rates must rise to counter the supposed inflationary threat.

  Harry Enfield

  Growing, England, Threat

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• Politics is about power. It is about the power of the state. It is about the power of the state as applied to individuals, the society in which they live and the economy in which they work. Most critically, our responsibility in this parliament is how that power is used: whether it is used for the benefit of the few or the many.

  Kevin Rudd

  Leadership, Responsibility, Power

  Kevin Rudd (2017). “Not for the Faint-hearted: A Personal Reflection on Life, Politics and Purpose 1957-2007”, p.9, Macmillan Publishers Aus.

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• Be thrifty, but not covetous.

  George Herbert

  Thrifty, Economy And Economics

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.8

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• We see community organizations as major service providers and economic drivers rather than as recipients or distributors of charity, and coordinators of volunteers. Today they constitute what's referred to as 'the social economy'.

  Julia Gillard

  Organization, Volunteer, Community

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• A collapse in U.S. stock prices certainly would cause a lot of white knuckles on Wall Street. But what effect would it have on the broader U.S. economy? If Wall Street crashes, does Main Street follow? Not necessarily.

  Ben Bernanke

  Wall, White, Doe

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

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• People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, People, Revenue

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• In today's knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the information technology sector, for example, pay 85 percent more than the private sector average.

  William J. Clinton

  Success, Jobs, Business

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001”, p.2214, Best Books on

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• 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

  Hjalmar Schacht

  Country, Home, Indifferent

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• Over the years, the U.S. economy has shown a remarkable ability to absorb shocks of all kinds, to recover, and to continue to grow.

  Ben Bernanke

  Success, Years, Kind

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• My father's vision was to see the Pilbara developed in a way that would benefit his beloved north, and West Australia and he wanted to see Australia become a stronger economy benefiting from the development of our north. His life was spent pursuing that vision.

  Gina Rinehart

  Father, Ambition, Australia

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• People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.

  Mitch Albom

  Mean, People, Doe

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.154, Broadway Books

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• The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.

  Charles Babbage

  Time, Technology, People

  Charles Babbage (1841). “On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures”, p.8

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• I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Learning, College, Dust

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• The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.

  Milton Friedman

  Freedom, Government, Opening Up

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• The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Economic, States, Enterprise

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1987). “Economics in Perspective: A Critical History”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

  Hillary Clinton

  Iraq, Debtors, Helping

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• Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  May, Rich, Poor

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• We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment.

  Dennis Weaver

  Strong, Sacrifice, Healthy

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• The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.

  Milton Friedman

  Freedom, Business, Party

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• Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do.

  Clara Barton

  Simple, Hands, Opposites

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• Economies are supposed to serve human ends.. not the other way round. We forget at our peril that markets make a good servant, a bad master and a worse religion.

  Amory Lovins

  People, Environmental, Way

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• Political economy regards the proletarian like a horse, he must receive enough to enable him to work. It does not consider him, during the time when he is not working, as a human being. It leaves this to criminal law, doctors, religion, statistical tables, politics, and the beadle.

  Karl Marx

  Horse, Doctors, Law

  Karl Marx (1975). “Early writings”, Vintage

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• After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Government, Order, Liberty

  Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses”, p.350, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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