Quotes About Economy

You mean most workers don't get paid everything?" I asked with amazement. "Heavens no!" said rich dad. "The government always takes its share first." "How do they do that?" I asked. "Taxes," said rich dad. "You're taxed when you earn. You're taxed when you spend. You're taxed when you save. You're taxed when you die.

When you get a raise, so does the government.

Average Americans today work four to five months for the government just to cover their taxes. In my opinion, that is simply too long. The harder you work, the more you pay the government. That is why I believe that the idea of "take-from-the-rich" backfired on the very people who voted it in.

Your profit is made when you buy, not when you sell." Every property we bought had to have a positive cash flow on the day we bought it, and it had to have a positive cash flow even in a bad economy.

The stock market is the only place I know of. What else is there to invest in?

This flaw is especially pronounced in a bear market.

MASTERING MONEY With the advent of derivatives and an increasingly complex economy, mastering money has become essential to surviving in the world economy. With low interest rates and an uncertain stock market, the old adages of saving and investing for the long term make no sense.

The main cause of poverty or financial struggle is fear and ignorance, not the economy or the government or the rich. It's self-inflicted fear and ignorance that keep people trapped.

A careful regulation of the economic impulses of society was considered as essential to man's spiritual welfare as it was to his material well-being. There was a righteous price in commerce, based on considerations of morality, as well as an economic price, reflecting the laws of supply and demand.

Oil runs America and it's the sad reality.

Nature's economy shall be the base for our own, for it is immutable, but ours is secondary. An economist without knowledge of nature is therefore like a physicist without knowledge of mathematics.

Forcing automakers to sell smaller cars to improve fuel economy [is like]... fighting the nation's obesity problem by forcing clothing manufacturers to sell garments in only small sizes.

The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development.

I just want to say one word to you-just one word ..."plastics!" ... There's a great future in plastics.

You can find that sort of regularity in Stock Exchange quotations.

The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.

It's not rocket science. Hong Kong has 95% tax compliance, because it's code is only 4 pages long with a 15% flat tax.

Science is definitely part of America's infrastructure, the engine of prosperity. And yet science is given almost no visibility in the media.

The inefficiency of political control of an economy has been demonstrated more often, in more places, and under more varied conditions, than almost anything outside the realm of pure science.

Bankers regard research as most dangerous a thing that makes banking hazardous due to the rapid changes it brings about in industry.

In post-modern finance, everybody took a risk when lending or borrowing.

Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of our nation.

The government will see that human spaceflight is useful - for science and the economy - and inspirational.

A lost job can put a smile on any shareholder's face.