Quotes About Economics

Under communism (socialism), there is no incentive to supply people with anything they need or want, including safety.

If I can make an economic deal with Amazon that works for them and works for me, OK - I'll make it available. But I don't want to be part of restrictions that make life difficult for my guests.

People are living such miserable lives economically. They want the escape. They want the fantasy. They'd love the dream of being king for a day or queen for a day.

I think that people will always want music; I think that the form that they will get it in, or distributed to them from, and the price they pay for it is what's up in question.

If you have the desire, if you really had people with the burning desire to lower taxes, it would be done. We know the Democrats don't want to do it.

There are certain economics involved in making a network TV show that you want to amortize the costs of that, so the more episodes you make, the cheaper they all are individually.

The lnternet is turning economics inside-out. For example, everybody on the internet now wants stuff for free and there are so many free services available.

Empires want [cities] only to trade with the empire, which doesn't help them at all. It's just a way of exploiting them.

The wants of mankind are supplied and satisfied out of the gross values produced and created, and not out of the net values only.

When you raise the price of employment, guess what happens? You get less of it. Why do we want to make it harder for small employers to hire people?

The force of the guinea you have in your pocket depends wholly on the default of a guinea in your neighbour's pocket. If he did not want it, it would be of no use to you.

Trump has said that he wants to remove the tax deductibility of interest. If he can do that, fine. But I hope that Trump knows that it's not the President that sets tax policy. It's Congress.

It would be fun to have someone in the White House who has worked in the private sector... and someone who understands that wealth creation is a good thing and they want more of it. Wealth is good.

The able bodied poor don't want or need charity.... All they need is financial capital.

All that (Mr. Bush) wants is Iraqi oil.

It's hard to fathom the psychology of the economics of art. I don't quite understand it, and I don't necessarily want to understand it.

There's a lot of money in wars, except in the war on poverty. Can't make any bread helping the poor.

Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible.

What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.

All wars are fought for the acquisition of wealth

We must take the profit out of war.

See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That's literally true.

For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.

The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain.