Quotes About Economy

At a time when the annual production of sugar did not exceed thirty million pounds, the geographer William Darby predicted that Louisiana's annual sugar production would eventually reach two hundred million pounds (which it did in the 1840s).

It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense…. They are themselves always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society.

By pursuing his own interest (every individual) frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

Every man lives by exchanging.

Of the growth in total national output in Germany between 1935 and 1938 almost half (47 per cent) was accounted for directly by the increase in the Reich's military spending.15 If we add investment, of which a very large part was dictated either by the priorities of autarchy or rearmament, the share rises to two-thirds (67 per cent).

Reading contemporary sources, there can be no doubt that the Battle of the Ruhr marked a turning point in the history of the German war economy, which has been grossly underestimated by post-war accounts.29 As Speer himself acknowledged, the RAF was hitting the right target.30 The Ruhr was not only Europe's most important producer of coking coal and steel, it was also a crucial source of intermediate components of all kinds.

I mean, it's not as though Radio 4 can put a person in a good mood; all it does is make me feel depressed about the economy and calcify my belief that everything I'm feeding my family is poisoning them. Still, I stick with it because it helps me have something to talk about at dinner parties. Katherine

For the folk-community does not exist on the fictitious value of money but on the results of productive labor, which is what gives money its value.

Great are the tasks of the National Government in the sphere of economic life. Here all action shall be governed by one law: the Volk does not live for the economy, and the economy does not exist for capital, but capital serves the economy and the economy serves the Volk! Policy statement on the Enabling Act to the Reichstag Berlin, March 23, 1933

Lo Stato non è un'associazione di contraenti economici, in uno spazio vitale determinato per perseguire i propri scopi economici ma è piuttosto l'organizzazione di una comunità di esseri fisicamente e spiritualmente solidali, per rendere possibile la conservazione della specie e il raggiungimento dei suoi scopi di esistenza. L'Economia è solo uno dei tanti mezzi che servono al raggiungimento di quella meta

Il compito dello Stato nei confronti del capitale era perciò semplice e chiaro: esso doveva badare a che restasse il servitore dello Stato e non cercasse di diventare il padrone della Nazione. Questa posizione correva perciò lungo due direzioni: conservazione di un'economia nazionale ed indipendente da una parte, assicurazione dei diritti sociali degli operai dall'altra

Forethought and temperance are the virtues which produced thrift, and with thrift the economic progress of society. And those are the virtues which today are gravely compromised.

We've become a collectivist economy in Illinois. It's crushing us. And no problem is going to get fixed unless we bring more economic freedom into the state. And I believe that very passionately.

You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you're not on the path to a clean energy future.

So from a long time ago, every year 700,000 Mexicans have only three routes to take: migration, the informal economy and the path to antisocial behavior.

Patriots don't let their nation default.

The office building is a building for work, organization, lucidity and economy. Light, spacious working rooms, clearly arranged, undivided, only organized according to the pattern of the firm.

Under Obama, income growth has been confined almost entirely to those at the top of the income distribution, continuing a pattern that began under President George W. Bush.

Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand that government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs do.

Most people don't realize how regulated the pawn industry is, especially where I'm at in Nevada.

We will pay the debts by growing and exporting... The only way is to export. The other channel has been exhausted, which is to borrow.

Seven out of 10 Americans are one paycheck away from being homeless.

You really want some natural way for people to get Bitcoins, as part of their paycheck or some other activity so they can turn around and spend them. It's much better if the Bitcoin economy is a self-contained thing.

I don't miss the economic insecurity, the living paycheck to paycheck.