Quotes About Economics

Capitalism, though it may not always give the scientific worker a living wage, will always protect him, as being one of the geese which produce golden eggs for its table.

Whether a bank lent one million, ten million, or a hundred millions, they would not permanently alter the market rate of interest; they would alter only the value of the money they issued.

Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.

Communism works, if everybody stopped carring about money.

We don't like trading agony for money

Your money does not cause my poverty. Refusal to believe this is at the bottom of most bad economic thinking.

Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.

The money paid at consumption is paid by everybody, including illegals, prostitutes, pimps, drug dealers.

The state is never so efficient as when it wants money.

Looking at these issues as a businessman, I believe that investing in the world's poorest people is the smartest way that our government spends money.

Money is gold, and nothing else

It is absurd to think that the general public can ever make money out of market forecasts.

You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.

Men are like bank accounts. Without a lot of money they don't generate a lot of interest.

It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Gold and silver are but merchandise, as well as cloth or linen; and that nation that buys the least, and sells the most, must always have the most money.

I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

In almost every walk of life, people buy more at lower prices; in the stock market they seem to buy more at higher prices.

Rice at present prices provides more food for the money than most of the other cereals.

When banks extend loans to their customers, they create money by crediting their customers' accounts.

War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.

With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to issue money to defraud and plunder the people.

Rich people always have a certain degree of debt. Apparently it helps to reduce taxes. I'm not so hot on the bean-counting side.