Quotes About Economics

I'm very bad when it comes to finances.

Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.

I'm so not a financial person.

I happen to love financial services.

The financial services industry is failing the millennial generation.

There's always a fine line between 'What is the market going to bear?' and, 'By the way, I've got 2,000 unsold seats.'

I don't have a firm line on balanced budgets.

There needs to be fiscal common sense.

I'm a fiscal conservative. That's how I define myself.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.

The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.

Whoever is for higher taxes, feel free to pay higher taxes.

You know what makes me want to cry? I think, whoever the next Facebook is, why would you ever start that company here in the United States?

What do you think a stimulus is? It's spending - that's the whole point! Seriously.

As ubiquitous as the brands of the warehouse clubs are - Costco, BJ's and Sam's - they're not everywhere. If you have less than a million people in your town, or less than 500K, you might never get access to wholesale savings.

Finance is wholly different from the rest the economy.

It was at the graduate school at Columbia University that I first met Wesley C. Mitchell, with whom I was associated for many years at the National Bureau of Economic Research and to whom I owe a great intellectual debt.

Like many free market economists, with whom he had little else in common, Nehru seemed to believe that people will find a way to get their children educated.

President Obama is a utopian at heart. He wants to improve the lives of the downtrodden, which is a good thing. But, he doesn't understand that damaging the free marketplace in pursuit of 'social justice' will eventually harm those whom he wants to help. The nation's crushing debt is a tsunami brewing off shore.

Today we see a human population of over 6 billion people, many of whom have serious medical conditions, which either can't be treated or cannot be treated economically.

The private sector is growing so incredibly in India, in every city you have industries for whom building a concert hall would be nothing financially. But they just don't do it.

The biggest losers from international trade are always those whose skills have a cheaper competitor in a different market.

And yet, there are still people in American politics who, for some reason, cling to this belief that America is better off adopting the economic policies of nations whose people who immigrate here from there.