Quotes About Economics

The remedy is for people to stop watching the ticker, listening to the radio, drinking bootleg gin, and dancing to jazz . . . and return to the old economics and prosperity based upon saving and working.

What also gave the book its force was Lloyd's political message: "Liberty produces wealth, and wealth destroys liberty.

Rebates had inevitably accompanied railroad expansion.

First, the railroads had engaged in such fierce, internecine price wars that freight rates had fallen sharply.

the wealth of the Rothschilds consisted of the bankruptcy of nations.

Instead of floating bond issues alone, the banks pooled their capital to share the risk of underwriting.

With $24 million now invested outside the oil and gas business, he held sizable stakes in 16 railroad companies, 9 real-estate firms, 6 steel companies, 6 steamship companies, 9 banks and financial houses, and even 2 orange groves.

A great business investment, religion. I'll take it over government bonds anytime.

Government does not solve problems. It subsidizes them.

Tax increases don't eliminate deficits they increase govt. spending.

Estamos caminhando para o socialismo, um sistema que, como se diz, só funciona no Céu, onde não precisam dele, e no Inferno, onde ele já existe.

Harry Truman once said: "Find me a one-armed economist, because every one I know always says, 'Well, on the other hand . . .

Washington and the other founders of the United States designed a governmental and economic structure to serve the private property interests of each and all of the primary actors, nearly all of them slavers and land speculators.

In economics, things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then they happen faster than you thought they could.

The World-Rectifying Catfish targeted the business class, the 1 percent, whose rampant practices of price-fixing, hoarding, and graft had led to economic stagnation and political corruption.

It is inevitable, therefore, that some approaches to politics, economics, science, and even spirituality and ethics will be objectively better than their competitors (by any measure of better we might wish to adopt), and gradations here will translate into very real differences in human happiness.

I can inspire people on how to use money, how to get economically powerful.

Let us face it: in the world today, money and economic strength remain more powerful arguments than the number of people you represent.

I'll be a president that will turn our inner cities around and will give strength to people and will give economics to people and will bring jobs back.

You can make money two ways - make more, or spend less.

We believe that economics does not necessarily have to be a zero-sum game; it can be a win-win proposition for everyone involved so long as they have the tools in which to succeed.

When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it's not common sense yet.

Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.