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Quotes About Economy

Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers.
~ George Carlin
If you travel as much as we do, you appreciate the improvements in aircraft design of less noise and more comfort - provided you don't travel in something called economy class, which sounds ghastly.
~ Prince Philip
We've got fuel prices coming down and good travel numbers coming out, so it's not surprising airline stocks are going up.
~ Andrew Sullivan
Fares are higher [and] people don't travel as much. If they don't do that, it doesn't have the trickle down effect into the economy and the other sectors.
~ David Neeleman
A world with a sudden limit on air travel would be tremendously different from the one we live in now.
~ Charles C. Mann
One certainty when you travel is the moment you arrive in a foreign country the American dollar will fall like a stone.
~ Erma Bombeck
France is the only country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
~ Billy Wilder
When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree
~ William Blake
Much of the economic decay of southeast Asia (as of many other parts of the world) is undoubtedly due to a heedless and shameful neglect of trees.
~ E. F. Schumacher
Don't let anything like trees in the Clearwater National Forest get in the way of providing jobs and fueling the economy, even if that means cutting down every last tree in the state.
~ Helen Chenoweth-Hage
We really owe a great deal to the rubber tree.
~ Mechai Viravaidya
It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
~ Alan Perlis
It's hard in a monetary system to trust people.
~ Jacque Fresco
What has become clear is that Britain cannot trust the Conservatives to run the economy. Everyone knows that I'm all in favour of apprenticeships, but let me tell you this is no time for a novice.
~ Gordon Brown
A good community insures itself by trust, by good faith and good will, by mutual help. A good community, in other words, is a good local economy.
~ Wendell Berry
We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real.
~ Alan Greenspan
Its mostly the financial chicanery thats going on. People are saying What kind of trust can we put in this market?
~ Mike Farrell
The gift economy represents a shift from consumption to contribution, transaction to trust, scarcity to abundance and isolation to community.
~ Charles Eisenstein
The savings rate in Italy is high, but the markets do not trust Italy even though it's the third largest economy in the European Union and the eighth in the world.
~ Anibal Cavaco Silva
...our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.
~ Alan Greenspan
Increasing the minimum wagewill put billions annually into the Social Security trust fund.
~ Bruce Braley
The public trust is at the core of both a free market economy and a democracy.
~ Hillary Clinton
Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
~ Audre Lorde
In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
~ John Maynard Keynes