Quotes About Economics

I think that indicates why men tend to invest more wealth. If he loses some, there's more coming in. Whereas for women, it's like "Ugh, I gotta keep this."

I see it is impossible for the King to have things done as cheap as other men.

The dollar sign is the only sign in which the modern man appears to have any real faith.

By adopting the 'free trade,' or British, system, we place ourselves side by side with the men who have ruined Ireland and India, and are now poisoning and enslaving the Chinese people.

How many men are there who fairly earn a million dollars?

The party should stand for a constantly wider diffusion of property. That is the greatest social and economic security that can come to free men. It makes men free.

By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.

Our whole civilization rests on the fact that men have always succeeded in beating off the attack of the re-distributors.

Two hundred years ago, before the advent of capitalism, a man's social status was fixed from the beginning to the end of his life; he inherited it from his ancestors and it never changed.

Markets and exchanges are merely mechanisms which reflect the temperament of man

Among the Tibetans, one wife has many husbands, because men are too poor to support a whole wife.

We try to pay a man what he is worth and we are not inclined to keep a man who is not worth more than the minimum wage.

[There will be movement toward] behavioral economics... [which] involves study of those aspects of men's images, or cognitive and affective structures that are more relevant to economic decisions.

Men, like animals, naturally multiply in proportion to the means of their subsistence.

There can be no profit in the making or selling of things to be destroyed in war. Men may think that they have such profit, but in the end the profit will turn out to be a loss.

I am...wholeheartedly a Galbraith man.

Financiers are great mythomaniacs, their explanations and superstitions are those of primitive men; the world is a jungle to them.They perceive acutely that they are at the dawn of economic history.

A conservative is a fellow who thinks a rich man should have a square deal.

Man acquires wealth in proportion as he puts his labor to better account.

I meet a man with a thousand dollars and leave him with two; that's the meaning of subtraction.

Reflecting an amalgam of economics, monetary, and psychological factors, the stock market represents possibly the most subtly intricate game invented by man.

It seems to be almost inevitable that the man who accepts a subordinate economic position in the Family degenerates into a loafer and a tyrant.

Property in land is as indefensible as property in man.

What is the disposition which makes men rejoice in good bargains? There are few people who will not be benefited by pondering over the morals of shopping.