Quotes About Economics

Money is an echo of value.

It all comes down to money.

Undermine the entire economic structure of society by leaving the pay toilet door ajar so the next person can get in free.

If you ask what's best for the country, vote Republican. If you ask how will you get more money from the government, vote Democrat

Printing currency for foreigners to buy is the best racket a government can get into.

Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

As you have to pay more interest and amortization on what you owe, you're left with less and less money to buy goods and services - unless you borrow even more and go further into debt.

A money-financed tax cut is essentially equivalent to Milton Friedman's famous 'helicopter drop' of money.

Money counts more than you think.

I want to make it clear what I am not saying. I am not saying that fiat money, once established on the ruins of gold, cannot then continue indefinitely on its own.

Money talks, but tell me why all it says is just Goodbye.

The people themselves, not their government, should be trusted with spending their own money and making their own decisions.

The history of mankind is the history of money losing value.

The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.

Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no existence.

Is it any more moral to dilute the value of the purchasing power of the money you hold in your wallet than it is for the farmer to dilute the milk supply with water?

When a man makes a specialty of knowing how some other fellow ought to spend his money, he usually thinks in millions and works for hundreds.

There are only three things you can do with a dollar: spend, loan, or own.

Sound money and free banking are not impossible; they are merely illegal.

The popular notion that an increase in the stock of money is socially and economically beneficial and desirable is one of the great fallacies of our time.

A company that does not produce anything other than money is a poor business

The quantity of money, which is readily parted with to obtain a thing is called its price.

Capitalism is like Japanese Knotweed: nothing kills it off. If there were only two people left on the planet, one of them would find a way of making money out of the other.

In precisely the same way money is often hired, and the hire paid for the use of it is called Interest.