Economic famous quotes

Including the value of natural resources and our social capital in national accounting is a vital step to achieve economic growth that is equitable and sustainable.
-- Achim Steiner

#Growth #Steps #Economic

What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.
-- Adam Smith

#Kingdoms #Economic #Prudence

While it is true that we must seek value added industries like food processing plants and call center operations, we must do what is necessary to expand and develop our economic profile.
-- Alan Autry

#Economic #Profile #Plant

Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn't done too badly.
-- Alan Dean Foster

#Done #Economic #Given

The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties.
-- Allan Bloom

#Philosopher #Psychological #Economic

Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
-- Alvin Toffler

#Expression #Political #Economic

I am not confident that Europe can make it.
-- Ana Patricia Botin

#Inspiring #Europe #Economic

It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy.
-- Anatoly Chubais

#Unions #Study #Economic

I would say that workers in general, and white workers particularly, are correct that their economic wellbeing is deteriorating.
-- Andy Stern

#White #Economic #Workers

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.
-- Aneurin Bevan

#Freedom #Economic #Surplus

We still have a lot of work to do when it comes to democracy. We have political democracy but not economic democracy.
-- Anker Jørgensen

#Political #Democracy #Economic

The WTO has one of the most impressive records in global economic governance, by promoting trade liberalisation and economic development.
-- Anna Lindh

#Records #Development #Economic

A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.
-- Antonin Scalia

#Law #Economic #Folly

Iago is the dominant trance state of our planet. It influences our relationships, our sexuality, our parenting, and our attempts to relax. It permeates corporate business, international politics, and our economic system.
-- Arjuna Ardagh

#Relax #Influence #Economic

The politics of austerity, of higher taxes, decided by governments, have lengthened the economic crisis.
-- Arnaud Montebourg

#Government #Austerity #Economic

A postsecondary education is the ticket to economic success in America.
-- Arne Duncan

#America #Tickets #Economic

All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have.
-- Arthur Scargill

#Underestimate #Economic #Trade

In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary. Men are free to cooperate or not, to deal with one another or not, as their own individual judgments, convictions and interests dictate.
-- Ayn Rand

#Men #Liberty #Economic

The corporatist-economic model of society appears to be governing us. Economists, often in the pay of transnationals, are deciding, for us, what democracy is, and will be.
-- B. W. Powe

#Democracy #Pay #Economic

We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.
-- Barack Obama

#Want #Economic #Holes

Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.
-- Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn

#Oil #Economic #Explosions

After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.
-- Barry Commoner

#Children #Economic #Child Labor

No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.
-- Barry Diller

#Issues #Economic #Solve

Developments in financial markets can have broad economic effects felt by many outside the markets.
-- Ben Bernanke

#Development #Financial #Economic

I quickly convinced myself that the true key to material happiness lay in a modest standard of living which could be achieved with little difficulty under almost all economic conditions.
-- Benjamin Graham

#Keys #Littles #Economic

I think unionization is good public policy. I think when families secure their economic future, that's good for everyone.
-- Bill de Blasio

#Thinking #Economic #Policy

Every time Washington regulators pass down another heavy-handed rule or levy another hefty fine, Colorado loses potential jobs, revenue, and economic security.
-- Bob Beauprez

#Jobs #Colorado #Economic

Obama's economic policies obviously have not worked, and have left the American market place with enormous uncertainty and anxiety.
-- Bob Beauprez

#Anxiety #Economic #Enormous

Reducing the tax burden is necessary to produce economic growth.
-- Bob Schaffer

#Growth #Economic #Burden

To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.
-- Bobby Seale

#Political #Needs #Economic

All physical and economic tests that may be devised are worthless if the immigrant, through racial or other inherently antipathetic conditions, cannot be more or less readily assimilated...
-- Boies Penrose

#May #Tests #Economic

Economists say the inability to delay gratification is a primary predictor of economic failure in life.
-- Brian Tracy

#Inability #Delay #Economic

The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals.
-- Calvin Coolidge

#America #Economic #Danger

Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.
-- Camille Paglia

#Administration #Economic #Stimulus

Difficult economic times, often spur great periods of creativity and invention.
-- Carisa Bianchi

#Creativity #Spurs #Economic

Globalization is a fact of economic life
-- Carlos Salinas de Gortari

#Facts #Economic #Globalization

Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.
-- Charles Edison

#Personality #Economics #Economic

I'm for economic independence.
-- Charles Evers

#Independence #Economic

There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity.
-- Chester Bowles

#Real #Insecurity #Economic

We couldn't be making as much money, if we had to deal with stranger behaviour. And right now, anybody who slows down our economic productivity, off they go. We have a place for them, the psychiatric institution. That's the main thing, they slow things down.
-- Chester Brown

#Behaviour #Stranger #Economic

Brand equity doesn't change based on economic considerations.
-- Chris Jogis

#Business #Economic #Consideration

Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.
-- Christopher Lasch

#Want #Advertising #Economic

In economic terms, we've always thought of work as a disutility - as something you do to get something else. Now it's increasingly a utility - something that's valuable and worthy in its own right.
-- Daniel H. Pink

#Leadership #Mind #Economic

Inclusive economic institutions require secure property rights and economic opportunities not just for the elite but for a broad cross-section of society.
-- Daron Acemoglu

#Opportunity #Rights #Economic

Immigration is not just compatible with but is a necessary component of economic growth.
-- Dave Reichert

#Growth #Immigration #Economic

I want to get down to the nuts and bolts of what is actually going to change to lift New Zealands economic performance.
-- David Cunliffe

#Nuts #Want #Economic

Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained.
-- David Frum

#Country #Desperate #Economic

Gorbachev was acutely aware of the [USSR] economic problems, and it was central to all he did. He wanted to change the system in hopes of saving it. In the end he could not.
-- David Hoffman

#Saving #Problem #Economic

In the US, most progressives start to see the differences between internationalism and economic globalization.
-- David Korten

#Differences #Economic #Globalization

...housing activity will remain healthy for some time to come.
-- David Lereah

#Healthy #Great Depression #Economic

Grouping and mutuality of countries and peoples in the Balkans is the only road that leads to economic, national and political liberation.
-- Dimitrije Tucovic

#Country #Political #Economic

Margaret Thatcher was fearful of German unification because she believed that this would bring an immediate and formidable increase of economic strength to a Germany which was already the strongest economic partner in Europe.
-- Douglas Hurd

#Europe #Germany #Economic

There is no economic problem and, in a sense, there never has been.
-- E. F. Schumacher

#Problem #Economic

If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters
-- E. F. Schumacher

#Ambition #Economic #Masters

The economic and social problems would tend to become, like the military situation, more and more difficult as time went on and we became more and more isolated.
-- Eamon de Valera

#Military #Problem #Economic

Protectionism is the institutionalization of economic failure.
-- Edward Heath

#Economics #Economic #Protectionism

It's one of these wonderful economic coincidences.
-- Edward Higgins White

#Coincidence #Wonderful #Economic

As I visualize it, the business of the future will be a scientific, social and economic unit. It will be vigorously creative in pure science where its contributions will compare with those of the universities.
-- Edwin Land

#Creative #Economic #Social

I believe in salvation through economic, social, and spiritual freedom.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Spiritual #Believe #Economic

a labor victory must be economic and it must be revolutionizing.
-- Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

#Victory #Economic #Labor

Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one.
-- Emily Oster

#College #Return #Economic

One of the big take-aways from a lot of economic theory is that people should engage in consumption smoothing.
-- Emily Oster

#People #Economic #Should

The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems.
-- Eric Alterman

#Political #Politician #Economic

Code sharing" is an economic surplus phenomenon. It works only when none of the people involved in it are in any form of need.
-- Erik Naggum

#People #Needs #Economic

For Marx, 'pure' economic theory, that is economic theory which abstracts from a specific social structure, is impossible.
-- Ernest Mandel

#Impossible #Economic #Social

The economic owning class is always the political ruling class.
-- Eugene V. Debs

#Class #Political #Economic

Art and work and art and life are very connected and my whole life has been absurd. There isn't a thing in my life that has happened that hasn't been extreme - personal health, family, economic situations...absurdity is the key word...
-- Eva Hesse

#Art #Keys #Economic

Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment.
-- Evo Morales

#Unemployment #Misery #Economic

Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.
-- Federica Montseny

#Moral #Problem #Economic

The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism
-- Francis Parker Yockey

#Independence #Spheres #Economic

Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook
-- Francis Parker Yockey

#World #Economic #Outlook

In order to consolidate the euro we need to harmonise our economic, fiscal and social policies, hence we are going toward greater integration.
-- Francois Fillon

#Order #Needs #Economic

We need to put in place an economic system of governance for the euro-zone.
-- Francois Fillon

#Needs #Economic #Euro

There cannot be prosperity without security.
-- Francois Hollande

#Inspiring #Prosperity #Economic

To secure the greatest amount of pleasure with the least possible outlay should be the aim of all economic effort.
-- Francois Quesnay

#Effort #Economic #Pleasure

Municipal networks expand economic opportunities. We've got to open new doors, not slam them shut.
-- Frank Lautenberg

#Opportunity #Doors #Economic

We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain.
-- Frederic Bastiat

#Liberty #Want #Economic

The plans differ; the planners are all alike...
-- Frederic Bastiat

#Liberty #Economic #Plans

Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.
-- Frederic Bastiat

#Liberty #Economic #Economy

Treat all economic questions from the viewpoint of the consumer, for the interests of the consumer are the interests of the human race.
-- Frederic Bastiat

#Race #Viewpoints #Economic

To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be controlled in everything.
-- Friedrich August von Hayek

#Mean #Economics #Economic

We can't afford the wrath of Heaven. We survived a deluge by the skin of our teeth, but an economic crisis would be disastrous.
-- Friedrich Durrenmatt

#Heaven #Skins #Economic

The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.
-- Garet Garrett

#Justice #Income #Economic

Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.
-- Gautam Adani

#Opinion #Assumption #Economic

During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history
-- Gavin Newsom

#San Francisco #Intense #Economic

Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well.
-- Gavin Newsom

#Economic #Neighborhood #Wells

In the West, the basic economic and social unit is the individual; in Africa, it is the extended family or the collective.
-- George Ayittey

#West #Economic #Individual

In embracing change, entrepreneurs ensure social and economic stability.
-- George Gilder

#Entrepreneur #Economic #Social

Everyone is exposed to economic risks of some kind.
-- George McGovern

#Risk #Kind #Economic

Open political and economic systems have been gaining ground and there's a good reason for it. They work better.
-- George P. Shultz

#Political #Reason #Economic

Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.
-- George Reisman

#Planning #Finance #Economic

Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which economic theory said would yield a single price.
-- George Stigler

#Yield #Chicago #Economic

Too often we shape our public positions on the basis of our economic connections. That brings us dangerously close to economic determinism.
-- George W. Romney

#Connections #Shapes #Economic

Ultimately it is by harnessing the natural economic forces which drive society that the pollution tax offers us an opportunity to exert greater control over our environment.
-- Greg Hunt

#Opportunity #Environment #Economic

If the machinery for distribution in the present economic system of the world is incapable of properly distributing the productive wealth of nations, then that system is false and must be altered.
-- Gregor Strasser

#World #Wealth #Economic

It is no accident that the Victorian age, the heyday of conventionalism, was the cultural bloom of economic liberalism.
-- Gunnar Myrdal

#Age #Heyday #Economic

We have to recognize that the freedom of the individual has to be protected not only from the power of the state, but even more so from economic and societal power.
-- Gustav Heinemann

#Economic #Individual #States

Either this is logical and true, or else the principles on which economic science is based are invalid.
-- Gustave de Molinari

#Principles #Economic #Logical

Culture changes with economic development.
-- Ha-Joon Chang

#Culture #Development #Economic

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, capitalism is the worst economic system except for all the other forms.
-- Ha-Joon Chang

#Economic #Form #Worst