Quotes About Economics

Those who argue for Brexit are wrong, and that is because they have not been properly informed about the costs.

Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.

Property is organized robbery.

Private property and the market system are good not only to promote innovation and to promote growth; private property and the market system are good for our personal freedom.

The law of property determines who owns something, but the market determines how it will be used.

There is a deliberate and quite outspoken attack on the whole idea of people owning private property.

If you really want to help the rest of the world, what you've got to do is encourage free markets, private property rights and the strong rule of law and get rid of the dictators in a lot of these countries.

Some people have proposed universal basic income, UBI, basically making sure that everybody gets a certain amount of money to live off of. I think that's a wonderful idea. The problem is, we haven't been able to guarantee universal healthcare in this country.

Opening the Pandora's box of tariffs will be an endless game, and it will be a lose-lose proposition.

You can't borrow your way to prosperity.

You cannot borrow and spend your way into prosperity. It does not work.

To the European immigrant - that is, to the aliens who have been converted into Americans by the advantages of American life - the Promise of America has consisted largely in the opportunity which it offered of economic independence and prosperity.

Development and prosperity of the world cannot happen without the simultaneous development of India and China.

The real cure to immigration, obviously, is to make sure that there is prosperity around the world so that people don't have the motive. Not just prosperity, but freedom.

The United States is going to be a rich country, it is going to be prosperous, but it is not going to be able to take the lead in the next phase of global economic development.

Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society.

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

Trade protectionism has an American lineage dating back to the Founders; that lineage is distinct from white nationalism.

Protectionism is something that will hurt everybody, but especially the United States.

Even those of us who do not understand the nuances of economics have come to accept that reform cannot be bloodless. We are often impatient with the predictable, do-gooder campaigns against development. We argue passionately against the humbug protests of those who never want the poor to get rich.

It may be said, let him take Money at Interest, and not buy at Time. But then Men must be found, that will lend; the Legislative must provide a Fund to borrow upon.

The degree of relative advantage may be measured in economic terms, but social prestige, convenience, and satisfaction are also important factors.

You were brought up to work--not especially to marry. Now you've found your first nut to crack and it's a good nut--go ahead and put whatever happens down to experience. Wound yourself or him-- whatever happens it can't spoil you because economically you're a boy, not a girl.

You were brought up to work — not especially to marry. Now you've found your first nut to crack and it's a good nut — go ahead and put whatever happens down to experience. Wound yourself or him — whatever happens it can't spoil you because economically you're a boy, not a girl.