Quotes About Economy

As a result, Hobyo is as good an example as any of a "feral city." It's a term that is used in military circles to describe regions that have no effective government but sustain an internationally networked criminal economy. Feral cities are the ragged end of spaces of exception: they are not the product of governments or ideologies but show what happens when such structures fall away.

Many women drop out of the work force altogether, which holds back our economy with a loss of skills and personnel.

You have to ask what is going to happen to a lot of companies when there is not a lot more money to be gotten. That changes everybody's perspective, I think.

Some say the economy means that you have to persuade people to invest in clothes - to buy less things but more expensive things. I disagree - invest in jewelry, or a house, maybe, but not in fashion.

Germany's Angela Merkel exudes an atmosphere of elderly exhaustion and pooped-out pessimism. Britain's David Cameron, though by nature exuberant, feels he has to look and sound glum. And France's leader, Francois Hollande, seems determined to drive every successful businessman out of the country.

The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.

We've begun to long for the pitter-patter of little feet - so we bought a dog. Well, it's cheaper, and you get more feet.

The world spends $40 billion a year on pet food.

My favorite artists are able to take things to the edge or just over the edge. Miles Davis and Duane Allman, for example. It's about not playing too many notes. Those guys had lots of phases to their careers, but they always played with economy and intelligence.

Without economic growth and job creation in Mexico, we won't be able to confront the migratory phenomenon.

I see the Philippines one day as a developed country, one of the major economies of Asia - perhaps not in six years, but definitely in our lifetime.

There was a time in the mid-'50s when the Philippines was in the same league as Japan economically and academics-wise.

You know, this iPhone, as a matter of fact, the engine in here is made in America. And not only are the engines in here made in America, but engines are made in America and are exported. The glass on this phone is made in Kentucky. And so we've been working for years on doing more and more in the United States.

Finland is a rich country. What have they got? They got Nokia phones and plywood. How'd they get so rich? Because they're free.

Mobile phones could not work in Africa without prepaid because it's a cash society.

The Democrats have concocted this whole phony 'war on women' narrative simply to mask their dreadful record on the economy and jobs.

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

In terms of economic growth, PIMCO originated the famous phrase the 'new normal.'

'Big business' was a bad phrase in India. To be accused of being big business was the worst accusation you could make. All that has gone now. The whole mindset has changed.

Physics is experience, arranged in economical order.

I've never had someone pick outfits for me. Almost everything I get is from Goodwill.

Just having the economy picking up doesn't mean that we will get through or that we will turn the chapter on many of the problems that we see ahead of us.

You can't run the economy on BMWs alone. If the average person is in a pickle, how do you have a healthy economy?

Fixing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in isolation, without looking at the big picture, would be short-sighted.