Quotes About Economics

You don't have to be a rocket scientist to prove that cutting incomes to the poorest families will have a negative impact on kids. That is less money for the basics like food, health and clothes.

Capital in money form has no citizenship. It is fungible, an asset capable of moving from place to place in a nanosecond.

Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.

There are only three ways by which any individual can get wealth — by work, by gift or by theft. And, clearly, the reason why the workers get so little is that the beggars and thieves get so much.

If you're wasting time, you're wasting money... and that's just sick.

Money plays the largest part in determining the course of history.

Everybody needs money. That's why they call it money.

Well look, no one takes pleasure from people making money out of the misery of others, but that is a function of capitalist markets.

It's not that I want money. It's the fun of making money and watching it grow.

The first essential for economists ... is to ... combat, not foster, the ideology which pretends that values which can be measured in terms of money are the only ones that ought to count.

Gold has two significant shortcomings, being neither of much use nor procreative.

All money is a matter of belief.

He really meant to tell them that the big money was not in the individual fluctuations but in the main movements that is, not in reading the tape but in sizing up the entire market and its trend.

Money makes money. And the money that makes money makes more money.

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

The only reason to do business is to make money; that's the only reason for doing business.

The more successful capitalists are in cutting their wage costs, the less money workers will have to buy back what those same capitalists produce. It's a contradiction.

Work harder, work longer, and earn less because the mafia needs your money.

A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.

When we run out of money, we have to start thinking.

Microeconomics is about money you don't have, and macroeconomics is about money the government is out of.

Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own.

Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act.

I wish I'd said it first, and I don't even know who did: The only problems that money can solve are money problems.