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Quotes About Economy

If a tax hike makes it to my desk, I'll veto it in less time than it takes Vanna White to turn the letters V-E-T-O!
~ Ronald Reagan
For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.
~ Jimmy Carter
Peace is the best time for improvement and preparation of every kind; it is in peace that our commerce flourishes most, that taxes are most easily paid, and that the revenue is most productive.
~ James Monroe
In the attention economy, anyone trying to connect with an audience must treat the user's time as the ultimate resource.
~ Jakob Nielsen
Time was when the average person could pay as he goes. Nowadays he has to pay as he comes and goes.
~ Orlando Aloysius Battista
My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time.
~ Manmohan Singh
Everything a politician promises at election time has to be paid for either by higher taxation or by borrowing.
~ Margaret Thatcher
If we are to create tomorrow's jobs, we can't remain frozen in time in yesterday's tax system.
~ Bob Taft
Fiscal responsibility and government reform are going to be good themes for governing, well at any time, but particularly coming out of a recovery.
~ Bob McDonnell
Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.
~ James Taylor
I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas.
~ Cher
As we all know, no crude oil refineries have been built in the United States since 1976. During that time, close to 100 ethanol refineries have been built.
~ John Shimkus
No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an economy of time more valuable.
~ George Washington
If you can remember that stocks aren't pieces of paper that gyrate all the time --they are fractional interests in businesses -- it all makes sense.
~ Seth Klarman
Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.
~ Robert Orben
We are taking a greater chance of having another crash at a time when the world is less capable of bearing the cost.
~ Raghuram Rajan
It's time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain't working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job.
~ Herman Cain
There is slow growth, but it is positive slow growth. At the same time, ratios of debt-to-incomes go down. That's a beautiful deleveraging.
~ Ray Dalio
The pattern is clear: if we could speed up time, it would seem as if the global economy is crashing against the earth - the Great Collision.
~ James Gustave Speth
The discrepancy between equity earnings yields and Treasury yields is at an all time high
~ John Paulson
The budget deficit for 1932, expected to be around twenty million pounds, would in fact be nearer one hundred seventy million pounds.
~ Anne de Courcy
Money is largely a fiction, a piece of paper that represents real assets, or the trust that assets exist. Take away this trust and it is worth nothing.
~ Anne Perry
People tended to be very spendthrift with their language, Kate had noticed. They used a lot more words than they needed to. She
~ Anne Tyler
This is a spendthrift economy; though nothing is lost, all is spent.
~ Annie Dillard