Quotes About Economy

Excessive pay and rewards for failure are bad for shareholders, the economy and society.

We can, and must, shift to an economy in which 100% of our electricity is generated renewably.

I built a company; now, I would like to shrink a government and grow an economy.

Do we want in this nation to lose the backbone of manufacturing in this country? Do we want to be a nation that doesn't want to manufacture anything?

The economic reality is that, thanks to smart machines and global trade, the well-paying, middle-class jobs that were the backbone of Western democracies are vanishing.

The sharing economy is out of the bag - and it's not going to go back in.

This is the kind of balance people expect: both environment and the economy - not one or the other.

Deutsche Bank is a problem bank.

Bank should be healthy and robust system should be there to lend more, more credit should be available and that can only happen with the financial health of the bank being right.

I look at my bank account every day. I constantly think about what is going in and out, and I will always try to save money on something if I can.

The Indian banking industry has always been full of competition, and there is enough room for growth.

Russia is a bankrupt country. It just lives on oil revenues.

I think India's growth itself will give opportunities for Indian banks to become substantially bigger.

Remember that banks aren't markets. The market is amoral. The market doesn't care who you are. You're a trade to the market. The market will sell you if they think you're riskier.

I come from a state with many sound, responsible banks.

When companies fail, shareholders bear the losses. It's just the way our system is supposed to work.

Beijing intends to dominate the U.S. and the rest of the planet economically, militarily and technologically.

Many Americans have never liked acknowledging that the public sector has always been integral to making the private sector successful.

The federal budget had last been in balance under President Johnson. Since then, federal outlays had outpaced federal revenues at an ever-rising rate.

After the deep recession of 1981–82, the country had had several good years under the Reagan presidency. (Though at a price: The federal debt—or accumulated deficits—had tripled from fiscal 1980 to fiscal 1989.) Beginning in 1989, the economy grew at below-typical rates.

It is a useful way of thinking about why the Klan opposed immigration (which brought a bunch of new kids to the block who might mow the lawn for less money) and was anxious about technological change in general (the move from agrarian life to industrialized economy and then the attendant march of automation in factories meant jobs would become ever more difficult to come by).

But surely stock-market psychopaths can't be as bad as serial-killer psychopaths,' I said. 'Serial killers ruin families,' shrugged Bob. 'Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies.

Serial killers ruin families." Bob shrugged. "Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies.

If present reality contradicts such a vision, if they prefer to reject economic modernisation in favour of defence of tradition, if their nation has fallen behind its neighbour across the Rhine, if polls in the summer of 2014 showed that 90 per cent of respondents did not believe their elected president could handle the problems facing them, this leaves them feeling deprived of what they believe should be theirs by historic right and opens them to the temptation of extremist illusions.