Quotes About Economy

Once you run current-account deficits, you depend on the kindness of strangers. This might be the beginning of the end of the American empire.

The best hemp and the best tobacco grow on the same kind of soil. The former article is of the first necessity to the wealth and protection of the country. The latter, never useful.

In a knowledge economy, a good business is a community with a purpose, not a piece of property.

Knowledge is our most powerful engine of production.

Creativity comes from knowledge. You must have knowledge of your own product or service, your competition, your target audience, your marketing area, the economy, current events, and the trends of the time. With this knowledge, you'll have what it takes to develop a creative marketing program, and you'll produce creative marketing materials.

Investing in industries and technology for the 21st century generates high-skilled, high-wage jobs for industries of the future.

I had my car towed. There's nothing wrong with it. That was just cheaper than buying a tank of gas.

A survey says that American workers work the first three hours every day just to pay their taxes. So that's why we can't get anything done in the morning: We're government workers.

Much else than liberalization has happened in the nineties (in India)

We're not Christians, we're capitalists," he said. "Everybody in this whangdanged country is a capitalist, whether he likes it or not. Everyone in this country is one of the world's most voracious consumers, using resources at a rate twenty times greater than that of anyone else on this poor earth. And Christmas is our golden opportunity to pick up the pace.

I never knew how much we consumed. It seems as if we are all appetite, as if a human being is simply a bundle of needs to drain the world. It's no wonder there are wars, no wonder the earth and water and air are polluted. It's no wonder the economy collapsed, if Eva and I use so much merely to stay alive.

I never knew how much we consumed. It seems as if we are all appetite, as if a human being is simply a bundle of needs to drain the world. It's no wonder there are wars, no wonder the earth and water and air are polluted. It's no wonder the economy collapsed, if Eva and I use so much merely to stay alive.

technology means there is more to learn before becoming a productive adult. With the economy shifting away from agriculture and toward knowledge-based jobs, more education becomes necessary. As a result, it takes longer to grow to adulthood—you can no longer start working full-time at 12, as my grandfather did, and have all the skills you need. Instead, it takes until 18, 22, or longer to finish education and begin full-time work, one measure of reaching adulthood.

But if all behaviour, without exception, thus implies an energetics or an "economy", forming its affective aspect, the interaction with the environment which it instigates likewise requires a form or structure to determine the various possible circuits between subject and object.

a platform is usually not hostile to competition among sellers.

It is production which opens a demand for products…. A product is no sooner created, than it, from that instant, affords a market for other products to the full extent of its own value.

The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters.

Right now people seem to be very tentative about the positive benefits of capitalism.

As governor, I saw the link between economic prosperity and the ability to acquire knowledge.

When it comes to energy, cost isn't everything - but it's a lot. Everybody wants cheap power.

In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010.

The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.

Lower Manhattan is the most valuable chunk of real estate on the planet, as well as the economic engine for the entire region—if it can't be protected, then New York City is in deep trouble.

Whenever you go with the cheaper option, you end up regretting it