Quotes About Economy

En la estructura psíquica viviente nada sucede de un modo meramente mecánico, sino en relación con la economía del todo, referido al todo: tiene un objetivo y un sentido.

It was not that "slave trade profits" flowed through some fiendish channels into the dark satanic mills. But the burgeoning Atlantic trade of the eighteenth century derived its value from the products of slave labor and would have been much diminished in the absence of slavery. As sugar became an item of common consumption in Britain, the sugar trade provided a powerful stimulus for a diverse range of occupations and ancillary activities, especially in London.

These days, you've gotta milk a dollar out of every dime.

Not one country in all the world has eliminated its economic participation [gender] gap — not one.

breach between the old society of survival and the consumer society; getting into debt, always regarded as a burden and possibly a disgrace, was suddenly perfectly normal, even encouraged.

In addition to the human suffering that comes with the current way of working, the opportunity cost of the value that we could be creating is staggering—the authors believe that we are missing out on approximately $2.6 trillion of value creation per year, which is, at the time of this writing, equivalent to the annual economic output of France, the sixth-largest economy in the world.

I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.

The central position of finance capital is going to come to an end, and it's going to steadily move to the sides, the margins of our society, transformed from being a master into a servant, a servant to the productive economy and of human needs.

The fact is America's democracy uses a combination of capitalism (businesses and banks) and socialism (public schools, police, fire fighters and the military) and our most successful times have occurred when government, business and people work together and don't demonize each other.

After growing rapidly in their youth, almost all companies with sales over about $10 million end up floating on top of the ripples of the stock market.

Publicly traded companies die through acquisitions, mergers, and bankruptcies at the same rate regardless of how well established they are or what they actually do. The

The idea that life is essentially based on intellect, and that intellect is accepted in practical life as the most valuable of our mental energies, goes hand in hand with the growth of a money economy.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist.

the economically more powerful culture may not be the more powerful culture spiritually and morally.

Discipleship, therefore, must necessarily be an uncomfortable process of reorientation and of abandonment of the self-centered values of human society in favor of the divine economy, in which "Many who are first will be last, and the last first" (10:31).

Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial establishment would have to go on, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented. Anything else would be an unacceptable shock to the American economy.

We have come a long way from sod huts and muddy boots to an economy that produces billions of dollars' worth of soap. And we may be learning what Mark Twain meant: "Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

Their job as leader was not to solve the problem – the president really has little control over the economy – but to convince the public not only that he has a plan but that he is altogether confident in the plan's success and that only a cynic or someone in different to the public's well-being would dare to question him on the details.

The United States has little reason to build an empire for economic and trade purposes. It exports only 13 percent of its GDP to the world, compared with Germany, which exports almost 50 percent, or China's exports in excess of 20 percent of GDP.

The most precious resource in the world economy is human genius.

The freer an economy is, the more this human diversity of knowledge will be manifested. By contrast, political power originates in top-down processes-governments, monopolies, regulators, and elite institutions-all attempting to quell human diversity and impose order. Thus power always seeks centralization.