Economy famous quotes

Economy forced me to become a vegetarian, but I finally starting liking it.
-- Abdul Kalam

#Vegetarian #Economy #Starting

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.
-- Adam Smith

#Cities #Valleys #Economy

It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.
-- Adam Smith

#Country #Banking #Economy

I don't know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we've been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.
-- Alan Greenspan

#Talking #Today #Economy

In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial markets could signal or precipitate an excessive softening in household and business spending.
-- Alan Greenspan

#Momentum #Financial #Economy

History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
-- Alan Greenspan

#Risk #Aftermath #Economy

And still the time, especially in the economy, is very tough, very difficult. It's necessary to be active still, to work, to fight, to make our economy more competitive.
-- Aleksander Kwasniewski

#Fighting #Tough #Economy

There is no resting place for an enterprise in a competitive economy.
-- Alfred P. Sloan

#Economy #Enterprise

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

#Golden #Finance #Economy

The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death.
-- Alistair Darling

#Economy #Choke #Global Economy

There cannot exist in the future an economy which is still mercantile but which isn't capitalist anymore. Before capitalism there were economies which were partially mercantile, but capitalism is the last of this genre.
-- Amadeo Bordiga

#Lasts #Economy #Genre

Human development, as an approach, is concerned with what I take to be the basic development idea: namely, advancing the richness of human life, rather than the richness of the economy in which human beings live, which is only a part of it.
-- Amartya Sen

#Ideas #Development #Economy

A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott

#Evil #Giving #Economy

Killing the private property-that was the center of the Marxist economy and Marxist ideology. That was the center of the Lenin ideology.
-- Anatoly Chubais

#Killing #Economy #Marxist

Basic services such as electricity have never been worse and the economy of Arab Iraq is in ruins.
-- Andrew Gilligan

#Iraq #Ruins #Economy

I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.
-- Andrew Johnson

#Economy #Source #Duty

The failure of Lehman may have allowed the government to do more to prop up the economy than it otherwise could.
-- Andrew Ross Sorkin

#Government #May #Economy

Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.
-- Anthony Eden

#Favour #Economy #Particular

Economy is going without something you do want in case you should, some day, want something you probably won't want.
-- Anthony Hope

#Want #Economy #Cases

The trustworthiness of servants is the basis of the entire Indian economy.
-- Aravind Adiga

#Trustworthiness #Economy #Servant

I have no friends and no enemies - only competitors.
-- Aristotle Onassis

#Enemy #No Friends #Economy

Economy is a way of spending money without getting any pleasure out of it.
-- Armand Salacrou

#Way #Pleasure #Economy

With the rise of America, the global balance of power shifted away from the old European powers.
-- Armstrong Williams

#America #Balance #Economy

The income effects in an economy always sum to zero.
-- Arthur Laffer

#Zero #Income #Economy

With the shrinking of the US economy, and it's shrinking very rapidly, you not only have more money, but you also have fewer goods. That's a classic double-whammy on inflation.
-- Arthur Laffer

#Shrinking #Classic #Economy

It has always amazed me how tax cuts don't work until they take effect. Mr. Obama's experience with deferred tax rate increases will be the reverse. The economy will collapse in 2011.
-- Arthur Laffer

#Cutting #Economy #Increase

Employ every economy consistent with thoroughness, accuracy and reliability.
-- Arthur Nielsen

#Reliability #Economy #Consistent

I am opposed to all forms of control. I am for an absolute, laissez-faire, free, unregulated economy.
-- Ayn Rand

#Laissez Faire #Economy #Form

We've got a lot of work to do economically in this country to bring about a more just and fair economy.
-- Barack Obama

#Country #Justice #Economy

The financial crisis appears to be mostly behind us, and the economy seems to have stabilized and is expanding again.
-- Ben Bernanke

#Financial #Economy #Expanding

We do not expect significant spillovers from the subprime market to the rest of the economy or to the financial system.
-- Ben Bernanke

#Financial #Economy #Significant

Although low inflation is generally good, inflation that is too low can pose risks to the economy - especially when the economy is struggling.
-- Ben Bernanke

#Struggle #Risk #Economy

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Economy #Efficiency

There can be no economy where there is no efficiency.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Economy #Efficiency

We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.
-- Bernard Baruch

#Bridges #Economy #Crosses

I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting.
-- Bernard Ebbers

#Technology #Engineering #Economy

I put those people in place. I trusted them. I had no idea they would do anything like this.
-- Bernard Ebbers

#Ideas #People #Economy

Imperceptibly, the developed world's manufacturing base was gradually eroding and being replaced by securitized finance that destroyed itself and nearly its economies in 2008.
-- Bill Gross

#World #Finance #Economy

The smartest thing we can do to create high-wage jobs and grow our economy is to keep our focus on education.
-- Bill Richardson

#Jobs #Focus #Economy

The only direction Obama has the economy moving is backward.
-- Bob Beauprez

#Moving #Economy

A good day for Barack Obama is anytime the dominant topic of discussion is anything but the economy.
-- Bob Beauprez

#Good Day #Topics #Economy

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 #Economy

I want to see the economy rebound.
-- Bob Corker

#Want #Economy #Rebound

A government that seizes control of the economy for the good of the people, ends up seizing control of the people for the good of the economy
-- Bob Dole

#Government #People #Economy

Be aware that the economy is not meant to control us ... we are meant to control the economy.
-- Bob Proctor

#Economy

The success of our economy shouldn't determine the success of our schools
-- Bob Riley

#School #Economy #Determine

A dynamic economy begins with a good education.
-- Bob Taft

#Education #Economy #Good Education

I think it is fair to say that 2007 represents a turning point for the Irish economy.
-- Brian Cowen

#Thinking #Economy

If printing money helped the economy, then counterfeiting should be legal
-- Brian Wesbury

#Economy #Printing #Should

Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence, and anyone who can read without moving his lips should know it by now.
-- Brooks Stevens

#Moving #Lips #Economy

Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence.
-- Brooks Stevens

#Economy #Obsolescence #Planned Obsolescence

Inflation is repudiation.
-- Calvin Coolidge

#Economy #Inflation

I am for economy. After that I am for more economy. At this time and under present conditions that is my conception of serving all the people.
-- Calvin Coolidge

#People #Economy

Nature's economy shall be the base for our own, for it is immutable, but ours is secondary. An economist without knowledge of nature is therefore like a physicist without knowledge of mathematics.
-- Carl Linnaeus

#Knowledge #Economy #Mathematics

Man himself is the beginning and the end of every economy,
-- Carl Menger

#Men #Economy #Ends

Economists don't seem to have noticed that the economy sits entirely within the ecology.
-- Carl Safina

#Economy #Ecology #Economist

We must recognize that personal freedoms diminish as the welfare state grows. The price of more and more public programs is less and less private freedom.
-- Caspar Weinberger

#Politics #Welfare #Economy

The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.
-- Charles Babbage

#Next #Economy #Advantage

There is a difference between strategic or technical default and default where you really don't have the economy to support the spending. We are not at that point yet. We could be. We could be, like some European nations.
-- Charles Bass

#Differences #Support #Economy

In a gift economy, the more you give, the richer you are.
-- Charles Eisenstein

#Giving #Economy

There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.
-- Charles M. Schwab

#Expansion #Limits #Economy

In today's competitive economy, to stand still is to die.
-- Charles Schumer

#Today #Economy #Stills

There is no clear sign that the economy is turning the corner in a meaningful way.
-- Charlie Dent

#Meaningful #Way #Economy

The U.S.'s major strength factor and weapon is its economy. If you cripple it, you cripple the military.
-- Chester W. Nimitz

#Military #Weapons #Economy

Once you start thinking about growth of economy, it`s hard to think about anything else.
-- Chris Hayes

#Thinking #Growth #Economy

When women do better, economies do better.
-- Christine Lagarde

#Economy

The world has physical limits that we are already encountering, but our economy operates as if no physical limits exist.
-- Christopher Martenson

#World #Limits #Economy

Some mythological fat asswipe drives our national economy.
-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Economy #Fats

Right now, the economy is a whole lot like a fairly good-looking brain-dead chick in a persistent vegetative coma. You can't really wake her up, but there's things she's still good for.
-- Cintra Wilson

#Brain #Looking Good #Economy

Over and over again, we must stress that a healthy ecology is the basis for a healthy economy.
-- Claudine Schneider

#Stress #Health #Economy

Five years ago, we thought of the Web as a new medium, not a new economy.
-- Clement Mok

#Technology #Years #Economy

As the economy grows, so will the demand for energy.
-- Cliff Stearns

#Energy #Demand #Economy

The [budget] deficit isn`t the immediate problem for most people, the weak economy is.
-- Cynthia Tucker

#People #Problem #Economy

The worst thing that we could do is raises taxes. It would only hurt the economy.
-- Dan Bartlett

#Hurt #Feelings #Economy

In the Gulf region and nationwide, small businesses are an integral and crucial part of local economies and communities. They should not be overlooked.
-- Dan Lipinski

#Community #Small Business #Economy

It would be bad for the economy if we have another Jimmy Carter grain embargo, Jimmy, Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Carter grain embargo, Jimmy Carter grain embargo.
-- Dan Quayle

#Would Be #Politics #Economy

You cannot carry on forever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorgement of the unproductive bit.
-- Daniel Hannan

#Order #Forever #Economy

The crisis of the fisheries is similar to our economy. This is not one fishery failing, but the whole system.
-- Daniel Pauly

#Failing #Economy #Crisis

The WORST thing you can do in this economy is get a second job! The BEST thing you can do is begin a home-based business!
-- Dave Ramsey

#Jobs #Home #Economy

It is vital that we get these policies right as we take forward our plans to drive down the deficit and transform our economy.
-- David Cameron

#Transformation #Economy #Plans

The economies in Europe that will prosper, are those that are the greenest and the most energy efficient
-- David Cameron

#Europe #Energy #Economy

If you like Texas and you like our economy, I helped create all that and all those jobs and you will love it when David Dewhurst goes to Washington.
-- David Dewhurst

#Jobs #Texas #Economy

The invocation of social necessity should alert us. It contains the seeds for Marx's critique of political economy as well as for his dissection of capitalism .
-- David Harvey

#Political #Economy #Social

Our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics.
-- David Korten

#Principles #Economics #Economy

So, there is enormous instability in the global economy with a shift of winners and losers.
-- David Korten

#Loser #Winner #Economy

As an economy measures performance in terms of the creation of money, people become a major source of inefficiency.
-- David Korten

#People #Creation #Economy

The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be.
-- David Ogilvy

#Marketing #Advertising #Economy

Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold... has its natural and its market price.
-- David Ricardo

#Politics #Economy #Natural

There are two Americas - separate, unequal, and no longer even acknowledging each other except on the barest cultural terms. In the one nation, new millionaires are minted every day. In the other, human beings no longer necessary to our economy, to our society, are being devalued and destroyed.
-- David Simon

#Two #Our Society #Economy

The premise is simple: One economy and one environment, and they're interdependent.
-- Dennis Weaver

#Simple #Environment #Economy

The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment.
-- Derrick Jensen

#Environmental #Degradation #Economy

Leaders of institutions everywhere have lost trust. The global economy is stalled and the world is deeply divided, too unequal, unstable and unsustainable.
-- Don Tapscott

#Leader #World #Economy

Good schools underpin not only our economy, but the social fabric of our lives.
-- Donald L. Carcieri

#School #Fabric #Economy

There are no European voices at Geneva, there are no European voices at START.
-- E. P. Thompson

#Voice #Economy #Geneva

Our nation's security, economy, and place on the world stage depends on the success our educational system.
-- Ed Markey

#Educational #World #Economy

I will work to restore fiscal responsibility to our country's budget and to provide for a more robust economy.
-- Ed Pastor

#Country #Responsibility #Economy

Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but in selection.
-- Edmund Burke

#Saving #Virtue #Economy

It is significant that the nationalization of thought has proceded everywhere pari passu with the nationalization of industry.
-- Edward Hallett Carr

#Politics #Economy #Significant

It is a little surprising given the strength of the economy that there is a perception - at least among some of the public - that the economy is not very good.
-- Edward Lazear

#Perception #Littles #Economy

The attacks on Sept. 11 really sent a shock wave through our economy, and the full reverberation of that is not yet known,
-- Elaine Chao

#Wave #Economy #Sept 11