Quotes About Economy

People were so cheap there... they ate beans to save on bubble bath.

He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of the Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet.

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

By 2050, natural gas demand is estimated to be 60 percent higher than it is today.

we're only at the beginning of the sea change that the Audience Revolution is bringing to our economy.

Alors qu'au Nord, la vie est rythmée par des saisons très contrastées ou tout se joue : les émotions comme l'économie. À chaque nouvelle saison, on a l'impression d'habiter une nouvelle ville. Elle nous entraîne dans une farandole : de nouveaux habits, un nouveau discours (on parle de chose différente d'une saison à l'autres), un nouveau sport, nouveaux débats politiques, une nouvelle cuisine. La vie est différente à chaque nouvelle saison.

Eastman Kodak will not be returning. Walmart and its ilk will never provide stable employment. The boom economies of energy exploration might seem more "real" than an extensive interconnected community of food and beverage makers, but any "one-stop shop" of a single corporation or an energy extraction bonanza is ultimately less stable than a mutually reinforcing, geographically unique, and irreplaceable range of businesses.

Economic growth and technological change are accompanied by what the great economist Joseph Schumpeter called creative destruction. They replace the old with the new. New sectors attract resources away from old ones. New firms take business away from established ones. New technologies make existing skills and machines obsolete.

The Maya's economy was based on extensive occupational specialization, with skilled potters, weavers, woodworkers, and tool and ornament makers. They also traded obsidian, jaguar pelts, marine shells, cacao, salt, and feathers among themselves and other polities over long distances in Mexico. They probably had money, too, and like the Aztecs, used cacao beans for currency. The

Currency obviously is a very important factor in any global business.

Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.

Camping: nature's way of promoting the motel industry.

Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.

The world once had real problems with heretics splitting the Church and infidels at the gates of Vienna. What real benefit was the discovery of America?" "None to the inhabitants thereof," Cannon admitted. "And its mineral wealth wrecked half the economies of Europe and financed endless wars." "In the end was it good for the world? You cannot price knowledge you haven't gained yet.

I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.

Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster. And it showed me first-hand the importance of every family having access to good health care.

[On reducing the federal government:] Starve the beast.

They want to subject society and the economy to a prolonged period of stress and fear, right?

in the end what they all had in common was that these were not people. They were consumers: units for the consumption of goods and the payment of revenue. The crime here, the monstrous crime, was not that Bill, or Tracy, or the twins, Grandpa or Aunty Peg were going to die a horrible death, it was not that children were going to be robbed of their parents, or parents robbed of their children. The crime, the heinous, monstrous crime, was that the American economy was going to be crippled

The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic.

Photography is more about money now but then so are most things.

The unemployed themselves suffer most from unemployment. But the rest of us are affected too. We pay for the benefits, the hospitalisation of those who become unwell, the policing. We may become victims of the crimes and we receive the everyday incivility.

The OECD similarly looked at many countries to establish the relationship between tax and growth. It came to the conclusion that for every 1 per cent of a country's economic output that is taken by tax, the output per person falls by 0.6 to 0.7 per cent.

The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words, there is nothing timeless or God-given about filling stations and penicillin and plastic bags.