Quotes About Economics

There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism.

Capitalism doesn't care about sentimentality.

I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.

Crony capitalism on the left and crony capitalism on the right are still crony capitalism.

I want to see a capitalism that manages resources in a new, much more long-term manner.

Crony capitalism is not capitalism - it is cronyism.

What 'Deadwood' did was to talk about how capitalism started, how civilised society came in, and how that brought its own problems.

The whole thing is, really, money makes money. That's the whole thing about capitalism. Without the capital, there is no -ism.

I'm not exactly the best capitalist ever.

Things do go wrong. Not everyone benefits from the capitalist dream.

Business is business. I don't manufacture cars, but we do manufacture money.

There is no need to subject people in capitalism to additional suffering; the point is to get them to recognize that the suffering they are already undergoing is caused by capitalism.

We've delegated politics to bankers. The European Central Bank is inside Deutsche Bank, and Deutsche Bank is inside the Bundesbank.

If I make a dollar and out of every dollar I'm taxed at 50, half, at 50 cents, I have to give, isn't that like enough?

Chairman Greenspan is, of course, a master.

Since I was 13, I've been buying things because they are ridiculously cheap.

Nobody loses money on my movies. I make them cheap.

The moment I write out a cheque, it's an asset I have written off.

When you're in 45 markets, you take it on the chin here and there.

Liberal capitalism is not perfect, but compared to the other 'isms,' it's far superior.

Yes, the European model remains superior to that of America and Japan.

It is true that from a behavioral economics perspective we are fallible, easily confused, not that smart, and often irrational. We are more like Homer Simpson than Superman. So from this perspective it is rather depressing. But at the same time there is also a silver lining. There are free lunches!

In the category of economic superpowers, more is better than less - the more technology those leaders develop, the more we all benefit.

These code authorities could regulate production, quantities, qualities, prices, distribution methods, etc., under the supervision of the NRA. This was fascism.