Quotes About Economy

Inflation is caused by too much money chasing after too few goods.

Employers love cheap labor, but a country should train its own people.

I love B.C., but you know what taxes are like in Canada.

I love Michigan, to be honest. I don't think I'd live nowhere else. It's cheap! This is Detroit. A little bit of nothing gets you a lot of something.

If you like Texas and you like our economy, I helped create all that and all those jobs and you will love it when David Dewhurst goes to Washington.

I always loved smokestack industry, and I love towns or cities that have grown up around factories.

I love a reciprocal tax. Nobody can fight it, it's fair and it's something that we are working on very strongly.

When people are not educated enough for the job market, it is like a time bomb ticking away which could explode in the streets.

Tax-Exempt Money-Market Funds

the public realized that an excess of paper currency creates no real wealth, only inflation.

As an investor, what should you do about forecasts—forecasts of the stock market, forecasts of interest rates, forecasts of the economy? Answer: Nothing. You can save time, anxiety, and money by ignoring all market forecasts.

You, far more than the market or the economy, are the most important factor in your long-term investment success.

By buying a share in a "total market" index fund, you acquire an ownership share in all the major businesses in the economy. Index funds eliminate the anxiety and expense of trying to predict which individual stocks, bonds, or mutual funds will beat the market.

You could talk about Prohibition, or Hemingway, or air conditioning, or music, or horses, but in the end you had to talk about the stock market, and that was when the conversation became serious.

I want to remind you right quick what this country has been through, and the challenges this economy had faced over the last three years. First, we went through a recession. That means we were going backwards.

Wherever citrus production dominates, a rather distinctive social life has long existed. This citrus belt complex of peoples, institutions, and relationships has no parallel in rural life in America. It is neither town nor country, neither rural nor urban. It is a world of its own.

Economists don't seem to have noticed that the economy sits entirely within the ecology.

The progress and perfection of mathematics are linked closely with the prosperity of the state.

I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing

If nature represents a principle of economy, then culture surely must exemplify the principle of innovation through excess.

our cooperation extends all around the globe. The next time you buy something—shoes, a computer, a bunch of bananas—look at where it was made. For most of us, it is impossible to survive without the help of thousands of strangers all over the world. We have never met these people, but they are enmeshed with us in globally extended networks

You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism. It indicates that the system has ceased to be as natural as the air we breathe, and can be seen instead as the historically rather recent phenomenon that it is.

If we do not act now, it seems that capitalism will be the death of us.

Hide the ideas," he wrote, "but so that people find them. The most important will be the most hidden."2 To accomplish this required great focus and economy of means on the part of the director, a rigorous and austere quest for purity of expression. "Everything should not be shown, or there is no art; art lies in suggestion. . . . Mystery should be preserved; since we live in mystery, mystery should be on the screen."3 He proposes several ways to achieve this end.