Quotes About Economy

The directors thought, They understand nothing in the real economy, in real life. They read some stupid books, and they came from the moon to the earth, and maybe in one month they will disappear.

Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.

All knowledge is spendable currency, depending on the market.

I believe Donald Trump would be better for America than Barack Obama, because he understands business. Donald Trump has taken a pro- life position. He believes that we're getting shanghaied by China.

Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.

Few have failed to observe that the much vaunted cultural creativity expressed in Trinidad and Tobago has come principally from the ordinary African descended people at the bottom of the economic ladder.

during the 8 years of his second term as prime minister, by supplying the unemployed with menial state-paid seasonal summer jobs designed by local government which took only a few hours a day, Orbán had lowered the unemployment rate from 11.4 to 3.8 per cent. This provided him with thousands of loyal supporters whose daily bread depended on his reelection.

You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.

People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.

Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.

The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards over the last five years.

Puerto Rico was out of time wasn't because it had no remaining strategies to continue trying to negotiate down the debt; severely limited as it was by the lack of bankruptcy protection and lack of sovereignty, it still could have lobbied the US government on humanitarian grounds. What Puerto Rico had run out of time for was the illusion that it had autonomy over its affairs, that its residents had full US citizenship, that it had anything resembling a self-directed economy.

One of the things that people don't realize is that that natural beauty, those recreational forests, they have an economic development impact for the state as well.

Mere parsimony is not economy…. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part of true economy.

Output per worker in England did not increase at all between 1500 and 1800, according to the estimates by Angus Maddison in his 2006 volume The World Economy, a trusted source.

Social Security is neither social, nor secure.

When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.

An economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human.

Buying and selling is essentially antisocial.

An American credit card… is just as good in Europe as American gold used to be.

Merrill Lynch is bullish on America.

The results of quality work last longer than the shock of high prices.

Whose merchants are princes.

Petroleum and coffee had no value a few centuries ago.