Quotes About Economics

It's important to offer well-thought-out pieces at lower prices.

It's tough for entrepreneurs when they're small to get good prices on stuff.

Increases in output generally lead to lower prices, not higher prices.

The key to the generic-drug economic model is to keep entry prices low enough to attract multiple competitors.

When the government gets involved in pricing, I don't think it's the right way to look at a business.

The pharma pricing system was not built on the idea of consumer engagement. It was built... on market efficiencies. It was not built on the premise of consumerism.

I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.

Extra capacity makes manufacturing competitive, keeps pricing in control.

The primary goal of a vendor is to make money.

It became clear I wanted to be a development economist. I mean, I said I wanted to work on the economics of poor countries. And I'd actually say that I don't think that was so much about narrowing the gap as about increasing their incomes, which means economic growth, which is really my prime interest.

I would like Modi to become the Prime Minister and expand the Gujarat model of development across the country.

Prime minister Manmohan Singh has put the country on global platform by adopting the right economic measures.

The successful conduct of economic policy is possible only if there is - and is seen to be - full agreement between the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

I felt completely ready to become prime minister. I came to office better equipped, in terms of knowledge of economics and of the Australian economy, than anyone before me, or since, I would say.

We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs.

We need to accept the principle that sometimes poor people will die just because they are poor.

I believe in the principle that if you have more competition, it will drive down the prices.

Letting bygones be bygones is a basic principle in economics.

And each of these perspectives comes to the same conclusion, which is that our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics.

People end up fleeing countries who adopt economic policies based on these flawed principles. And more often than not, they come here.

Fifty years ago, historians advised politicians and policy-makers. They helped chart the future of nations by helping leaders learn from past mistakes in history. But then something changed, and we began making decisions based on economic principles rather than historical ones. The results were catastrophic.

I tend to think that free-market conservative principles are the best ones for the CEO of a state.

The Republican corporatists are worse than the Democratic corporatists, but only to a degree. And Republican corporatists are at least true to their principles, however abhorrent those principles might be to some of us.

If you believe in free markets, I don't want to make any compromise with my principles and I think that's the right policy for Canadians and for Canadian consumers.