Quotes About Economics

I love talking in lira because, suddenly, everything is in billions.

Any time I hear 'border adjustment,' I don't love it. Because usually it means we're going to get adjusted into a bad deal.

There should be no economic border at all between the North and South.

History shows that it's not smart for states to pay more to get jobs; you just get into the race to the bottom.

How can a man help breaking the law when he don't have money to live on?

I'm not sure a pain-free Brexit is possible.

If you look at it ideologically, I would say Brexit is not something that probably is good for the world.

The move towards neoliberalism in Britain was intimately bound up with the embrace of the U.S. as the country to be aped and copied.

Obama kept blacks broke and angry the entire eight years he was in office.

Low budget movies make lots of money.

Eviction is part of a business model at the bottom of the market.

If the U.K. leaves the E.U., we'll have to consider whether it makes business sense to stay headquartered here.

The thing I love about Donald, it's time this country is run by a businessman and not people with their hands out, and Donald doesn't have his hands out. I not only consider him as a friend, but if people get to know Donald Trump, I think they'll know what I'm talking about. He's one of the greatest human beings I've ever met in my life.

Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.

The successful companies try to keep the new entrants down. Now that's great for a company like ours. We make more money that way because we have less competition and less innovation. But for the country as a whole, it's horrible.

All I was looking for is to be successful. I had the opportunity with Australia, with what it provided for me economically.

In reality there is no such thing as an inflation of prices, relatively to gold. There is such a thing as a depreciated paper currency.

There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.

One of the profound effects of economics in our day is that the people with the money and the power have embraced the guilt-free, external-less, everything-will-turn-out-okay-in-the-end philosophy of economics in order to justify their own evil works. And the economists, for the most part, have sucked up to that money.

The sucking sound of capital being pulled out of Europe and into East Asia is almost deafening.

Let's be honest. The powers that be all of a sudden realize that there's a lot of money to be made from the Latino market. It all comes down to economics. That's what's happening. So what! We're in style. I mean, that's silly, but I'm taking full advantage of that.

You could see how money is different all of a sudden in Italy when they had the lire and now they have the euro. So they, in a revolutionary way, have gone from bad money to good money comparatively. But what about the rest of the world?

One day, when the world market is more or less fully developed and can no longer be suddenly enlarged, and if labour productivity continues to advance, then sooner or later the periodic clashes between productive forces and market barriers will begin, and because of their recurrence, these will naturally become increasingly rough and stormy.

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.