Quotes About Economics

It is merely a metaphor to call competition competitive war, or simply, war. The function of battle is destruction; of competition, construction.

...The war (WWI) cost your Uncle Sam $52 billion. $39 billion was expended in the actual war period. This expenditure yielded $16 billion in profits.

I am for a close global association in trade and financial matters, rather than the opposite possibility of excessive nationalism, as manifested in the two world wars.

Every year the international finance system kills more people than the Second World War. But at least Hitler was mad, you know.

Honey lamb, there are a lot of things in this world I feel insecure about. Religion. Our national economic policies. What color socks to wear with a blue suit. But I've got to tell you that my performance in that hotel room last night isn't one of them.

The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare?

Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it's much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration.

They aren't afraid to take risks, but they don't gamble. They are generous but not extravagant. They thrive on beauty of economics, the fact that it is both art and science.

The link between foreign-exchange transactions, art, and armaments hadn't gone unnoticed by Hoover.

We never had it as rough as the kids have it today. Look at the price of a gallon of gas or a piece of real estate or a college education.

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You always want to try to make something new, and, of course, America is the world leader in economics today.

Sometime, while I wasn't paying attention, trickle-down economics got respectable.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

I don't think exactly like a professional economist. I think about economics and economic ideas, but somewhat like an outsider.

It was gradually learned that acceptance of a somewhat higher inflation rate would not really bring somewhat higher employment.

I knew from being on 'The Shield,' and having some experience in the financials of all of it, that after seven seasons, the production model changes and reverts back. It becomes a much more expensive show to do, and perhaps the economic feasibility of it somewhat goes away.

Capital isn't this pile of money sitting somewhere; it's an accounting construct.

It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.

I see the war problem as an economic problem, a business problem, a cultural problem, an educational problem - everything but a military problem. There's no military solution. There is a business solution - and the sooner we can provide jobs, not with our money, but the United States has to provide the framework.

What I'm pushing for is an economic discipline that will be closer to other social sciences; in particular, we should be more pragmatic about the methods that we are using instead of pretending that we have our own scientific apparatus with very sophisticated mathematic models that distinguish us from sociologists and historians.

I had four or five years in school training as a soprano. I fell into pop singing because of economics. I got out of high school and had to go work, and they weren't hiring opera singers.

My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment - my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.

It's sort of like a teeter-totter; when interest rates go down, prices go up.