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Quotes About Economics

Bernoulli's real contribution was to coin a word. The word has been translated into English as "utility". It describes this subjective value people place on money.
~ William Poundstone
What was needed was a policy that increased the supply of money available for use and then ensured its use. Then the state of trade would have to improve.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
The idea behind stamped money is sound.
~ John Maynard Keynes
Money is a machine for doing quickly and commodiously what would be done, though less quickly and commodiously, without it.
~ John Stuart Mill
It's complicated.' 'So's quantitative easing. But I still get that it means printing money.
~ Jojo Moyes
I would also say Barack Obama has spent much, much, much, much more money than the Republicans.
~ Jonah Goldberg
We could, of course, always make the payments, simply by printing more money - we simply promise to pay people by giving them dollar bills - but that could set off inflation.
~ Joseph Stiglitz
The value of money is a scam perpetrated by those who have it over those who don't
~ Karen Joy Fowler
Very well then; emancipation from usury and money, that is, from practical, real Judaism, would constitute the emancipation of our time.
~ Karl Marx
We don't have enough money to rebuild our own country if we're rebuilding everyone else's countries.
~ Rand Paul
Movies are getting more and more expensive to distribute. You need a lot of money to get people into theaters
~ Robin Tunney
I never voted to spend one penny of Social Security money.
~ Ron Paul
Right now, nobody legalized paper money. Where did that come from.
~ Ron Paul
I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first.
~ Seth Godin
Algebra and money are essentially levelers; the first intellectually, the second effectively.
~ Simone Weil
It's real difficult to save when you don't have any money.
~ Stephanie Tubbs Jones
We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Remember, for every shot you fire, someone, somewhere, is making money.
~ Tom Clancy
Out here I had been putting what little money I had in Ocean Frontage, for the sole reason that there was only so much of it and no more, and that they wasent making any more.
~ Will Rogers
The more men, generally speaking, will do for a Dollar when they make it, the more that Dollar will do for them when they spend it.
~ William J. H. Boetcker
It saves a lot of trouble if, instead of having to earn money and save it, you can just go and borrow it.
~ Winston Churchill
Using money in one's attempt to put an end to poverty is like using a border in one's attempt to put an end to xenophobia.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Money often costs too much
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's clearly a budget. It's got lots of numbers in it.
~ George W. Bush