Quotes About Economics

It's better to give than to lend and it costs about the same.

Money costs too much.

It is better to give then to lend, and it costs about the same.

It doesn't cost money to let people keep more of their own money. It costs money to spend money you don't have, but that's another issue.

Companies are the first to see the costs of climate change.

Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.

It's weird how America works. Healthy food costs way more than crap.

If you need a tax credit to compete, you are probably not that competitive.

I don't think cricket will ever have the same sort of money as football.

Revenue cures everything in the business world.

My interest in economics just basically comes because I think I'm a curious person, and I'm interested in how the world works.

The benefits from a world currency would be enormous.

The yuan is actually a very attractive currency and will prove to be very reliable-much more so than the U.S. dollar.

Nations with a common currency never went to war against each other. A common currency is more than the money you pay with.

We don't really believe there's much room for the creation of new currencies if there is no real backing for a hard and credible issuer of that currency.

I believe our current system of capitalism is slavery by another name.

Margin is a customer concept.

I look at the money I'm about to spend on myself and ask if IKEA's customers could afford it.

The Republican Party once could lay claim to the mantle of being the fiscally responsible, or 'Daddy,' Party.

Global governments should start seriously talking about the creation of a World Tax Authority with the mission to ensure that tax systems will deliver for the public interests in all countries.

My dad is an economist who does global development research. What he practices is a kind of quantifiable empathy: trying to empathize with systems rather than people.

First of all, I am not an expert on matters on different economic systems, but in my normal social intercourse with my friends we discussed matters like that.

That inefficiency is masked because growth and progress are measured in money, and money does not give us information about ecological systems, it only gives information about financial systems.

I think that people need to become more educated about money. We need to stop creating systems that benefit only the most-cutthroat sharks.