Quotes About Economics

Greed is good to most economists. It's greed that makes people work harder, be more productive and helps the economy grow.

The road to conservation is paved with good intentions that often prove futile, or even dangerous, due to a lack of understanding of either land or economic land use.

The good thing about the IMF is there is no European politics involved.

The way prices are rising, the good old days are last week.

[Gresham's Law]: Bad money drives out good money.

I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense.

Carl Icahn told me to stay away from airlines. In good times, the unions take away the profits, and in bad times, the cost of oil kills you.

You must never throw away things that are worth good money.

I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.

Money is a public good; as such, it lends itself to private exploitation.

The free market hasn't done a very good job "figuring out" how to pay workers enough. If it was solely up to the market, the people with the least power would be paid pennies ... or less.

What I'm doing is good for the United States. It's also going to be good for Mexico.

All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.

Then why flounder around waiting for good business? Get the costs down by better management. Get the prices down to the buying power.

I do understand the free market, having my economics degree, and if someone on the right had some good ideas, I'm not so dogmatic that I wouldn't listen to them.

It is the good fortune of the affluent country that the opportunity cost of economic discussion is low and hence it can afford all kinds.

My goal is first of all to promote a public debate about where markets serve the public good and where they don't belong. That's my first goal.

There is no good way of measuring poverty.

No legal tender law is ever needed to make men take good money; its only use is to make them take bad money.

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.

I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.

The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

Big-government economics breeds crony capitalism. It's corrupt, anything but neutral, and a barrier to broad participation in prosperity.