Quotes About Economics

I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material.

Everyone's an equal shareholder. Birth shares are inalienable, and death duties are unavoidable. The estate tax is one hundred per cent. In between, you can buy and sell and earn as much as you like.

As a precocious youngster I had always been good at logical manipulations and puzzle-solving IQ tests. So if economics was made for me, it can be said that I too was made for economics. Never underestimate the vital importance of finding early in life the work that for you is play. This turns possible underachievers into happy warriors.

Anyone who believes in indefinite growth in anything physical, on a physically finite planet, is either mad or an economist.

Anyone who believes that exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

Mathematics brought rigor to economics. Unfortunately it also brought mortis.

The tourist business is a trap, it is a tained honey; Man clearly should have stayed in bed, and not invented money.

Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

Percentage of Population* Percentage of Private Wealth Number of People Top 1% of Population 35.6% 3,000,000 people Next 19% of Population 51.6% 57,000,000 people Bottom 80% of Population 12.8% 240,000,000 people

Buy straw hats in the winter, when nobody wants them, and sell them in the summer when everybody needs them.

Never pay attention to any price-weighted index.

He financed governments, wars, railroads-anything that stood for progress.

Although banking was then still in its rudimentary state, Nathan fully understood the interplay between finance and economics, the effects of political news on the stock exchange, the quickest way to bull or bear a market, and how gold reserves affected the exchange rate.

Today, there are also buyers and sellers of all these energy commodities, just like there are buyers and sellers of food commodities and many other commodities.

I write for one and only one purpose, to overcome the invincible ignorance of the traduced heart. […] I wish to speak to and for those who have had enough of the Social Lie, the Economics of Mass Murder, the Sexual Hoax, and the Domestication of Conspicuous Consumption.

No other place can so convincingly claim to be the capital of capitalism, the capital of the 20th century and the capital of the world.

The very rich are getting richer and all the others are going broke. The big holders are not shrewd or ruthless or enterprising. They don't have to say or think anything. All they have to do is sit and the money comes pouring in. You have to get up with the Big Holders or drop out and take any job they hand you.

Tip of the Week If you bought $1,000 worth of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth $49. If you bought $1,000 worth of Budweiser (the beer, not the stock) one year ago, drank all the beer, and traded in the cans for the nickel deposit, you would have $79. My advice to you…start drinking heavily.

There is one investment truism that, if followed, can dependably increase your investment returns: Minimize your investment costs. We

And if you buy the new issue after it begins trading, usually at a higher price, you are even more certain to lose.

Res tantum valet quantum vendi potest. (A thing is worth only what someone else will pay for it.)

Equality begins with economic empowerment.

There isn't any such thing as something free out there. It either gets passed along as increased prices or it gets passed along by people being put out of work so the business can continue to compete.

Only a large-volume market like space travel can attack the barrier of high costs.