Quotes About Economics

Everybody's doing it. In capitalism, you try to get the highest price you can for a product.

In a large range of cases, the failure of students to learn has mainly to do with a national economic failure and not with inadequate teachers or schools.

It is basic truth. Workers are profit creators

We make you pay for the water you drink, for the food you eat, for the wars we need, for the crimes we commit. We make you dedicate the most important part of your life to us, but we give you wages and tell you they allow you to buy stuff and pay for your needs to make us richer. We call this freedom.

Waiters are seldom socialists.

Il y a partout la même structure pyramidale, le même culte d'un chef semi-divin, le même système économique existant par et pour une guerre continuelle.

What we call democracy in a capitalist country only remains in being while things are going well; in time of difficulty it turns immediately into Fascism.

In practice nobody cares whether work is useful or useless, productive or parasitic; the sole thing demanded is that it shall be profitable.

No se había comprendido por completo que la desaparición de la libertad económica tendría algún efecto sobre la libertad intelectual.

It had always been assumed that if the capitalist class were expropriated, Socialism must follow: and unquestionably the capitalists had been expropriated. Factories, mines, land, houses, transport — everything had been taken away from them: and since these things were no longer private property, it followed that they must be public property.

If a rich man builds him a new palace, is the gold he pays out gone? No, the brickmaker has part of it and  the laborer has part of it, and the artist has part of it. And everyone who labors upon the house has part of it

Money is governed today by the same laws which controlled it when prosperous men thronged the streets of Babylon, six thousand years ago.

The Third Cure — Make Thy Gold Multiply

For each ten coins I put in, to spend but nine.

ÉSTE, MIS ESTUDIANTES, FUE EL PRIMER REMEDIO QUE DESCUBRÍ PARA MI BOLSA ESCASA: DE CADA DIEZ MONEDAS QUE COLOCO, SOLO GASTO NUEVE. Debátanlo entre ustedes. Si algún hombre puede probar que esto no es cierto, dígame la siguiente vez que nos volvamos a reunir.

Although I believe, like Bagehot, that central banks are inherently destabilising, that doesn't mean that you cannot have financial and economic instability without a central bank. Decentralised monetary systems, if poorly regulated, can also be unstable;

Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.

Fortuna se ha convertido en «fortuna», en el sentido del contador y del banquero.

But books, when you want to buy them, are costly and, when you need to sell them, valueless.

We need to work together to fairly assess and improve the long-term economic and health value - and affordability - of all components of the healthcare system, including hospitalizations, drugs, devices, and other interventions, to optimize our health investment decisions.

As president, Reagan worked very well with Democrats to do big things. It is true that he worked to reduce the size of government and cut federal taxes and he eliminated many regulations, but he also raised taxes when necessary.

Mitt Romney understands free enterprise, he has worked in it. He has seen companies succeed and he has seen them fail, too. He knows what people think about when they invest their money.

My father is an economist who specialized in foreign food policy, and my mother worked for AID, a branch of the State Department, so food in regards to world affairs was talked about a lot.

It is actually costlier to hire an immigrant. And yet the farm worker is almost invariably an immigrant. You can't pay an American to pick blueberries.