Quotes About Economics

Ludwig von Mises referred to Ayn Rand as 'the most courageous man in America.' If that doesn't say it all about the economist's man-centric frame of reference, I don't know what does.

If you do microcredit with men, they tend to quickly drink it. They don't pay you back.

What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.

There's no such thing as good money or bad money.There's just money.

Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws.

To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that.

Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it.

Money lending is a horrible profession. If we are to call it otherwise it is lawful plundering.

Racism will disappear when it's no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it'll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.

Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country.

Gold is money. Everything else is credit.

Money degrades all the gods of man and converts them into commodities.

Billions raised, billions spent. No idea where the money has gone. With a record like that the chancellor should be running for treasurer of the Labour Party.

Woman's ability to earn money is better protection against the tyranny and brutality of men than her ability to vote.

A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.

It is usually people in the money business, finance, and international trade that are really rich.

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

Paper money is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.

Via money Europe could become political in five years

Money is the god of our time, and Rothschild is his prophet.

It's all about money, not freedom. If you think you're free, try going somewhere without money, okay?