Quotes About Economics

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

What we have here is a situation where the pull factor of rising reserves and stronger creditworthiness actually created its own push factor by depressing U.S. yields and therefore pushing more capital toward higher-yielding developing countries.

If God had meant there to be more than two factors of production, He would have made it easier for us to draw three-dimension al diagrams.

PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.

I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics.

The most important thing to remember is that inflation is not an act of God, that inflation is not a catastrophe of the elements or a disease that comes like the plague. Inflation is a policy.

The economists all think that if you show up at the cashier's cage with enough currency, God will put more oil in ground.

American capitalism has helped finance the communist take over of the world. Somebody is going to answer to God for this.

Only a true faith that applies God's Word to everything-incl uding economics-will lead to the revival and reformation our culture needs so badly.

If it is unnecessary to adjust the amount of expenditure to the means available, there is no limit to the spending of the great god State.

Government spending? I don't know what it's all about. I don't know any more about this thing than an economist does, and, God knows, he doesn't know much.

Even though IÂ'm pro-globalization, I have to say thank God for the anti-globalization movement. TheyÂ're putting important issues on the agenda.

There are still many people in America who regard depressions as acts of God. I think Keynes proved that the responsibility for these occurrences does not rest with Providence.

Uncle Scrooge preferred to let the poor die "and decrease the surplus population." Scrooge may not have had God on his side, but his arithmetic was impeccable.

I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.

Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist.

Saying that you are moral because you believe in a god is like saying you are an economist because you play monopoly.

All taxes discourage something. Why not discourage bad things like pollution rather than good things like working?

The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich.

There are different ways to organise capitalism. Free-market capitalism is only one of them-and not a very good one at that.

There is no such thing as a good tax.

Although there are good and bad companies, there is no such thing as a good stock; there are only good stock prices, which come and go.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Economists are very good at saying that something cannot go on forever, but not so good at saying when it will stop.