Quotes About Economy

Modern agriculture has been accurately described as a way of turning oil into food. As the price of oil continues to rise, so will the price of food.

Misguided economic and tax policies have hampered growth, allowing the rich to become richer while turning the middle class into the working poor.

When businesses go through hard times, through down markets, what do they do is they challenge every basic assumption of how they operate. They innovate. They create disruption for a while that leads them to even greater heights when the economy turns around.

People forget... that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that's what happened.

The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns our refrigerators.

Our economic competitiveness turns on a thriving, inclusive culture grounded in racial and economic justice.

When the market turns down, a lot of people lose jobs... and that's the time people become entrepreneurs. Downturns end up being the best times to start companies.

I think we're in the beginning of a bull market. When a bull market begins, nine months later the economy turns around.

As the economy turns, one of the most significant impediments to economic growth is going to be labor availability.

It turns out the businessman knows more about how the economy really works than the chattering class. What a shock.

My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV.

Here's my thinking: Since tax reform only occurs once a generation, let's not tweak what we have and call it a day.

By March '87 we're down to seven thousand, by the end of the year we're down to twelve hundred. The whole bottom just fell out of the market. It was bad for me because I was in Australia at the time.

The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.

There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.

When I was in my late twenties, a friend suggested that, since I was an avid SF reader and had been since I was barely a teenager, that since it didn't look like the poetry was going where I wanted, I might try writing a science fiction story. I did, and the first story I ever wrote was 'The Great American Economy.'

Between 2001 and 2011, Brazil lifted 20 million people out of poverty and into its growing middle class, and in the last quarter of the twentieth century Botswana's gross domestic product per capita grew faster than that of any other country on the planet. The once-labeled 'Third World' is edging its way into the 'First World.'

I'm convinced that the Great Lakes region will be at the center of an internally-focused North American economy when the hallucination of oil-powered globalism dissolves. Places like Buffalo, Cleveland, and Detroit will have a new life, but not at the scale of the twentieth century.

Coming to the growth potential in financial services, there is enough data to show that, usually, financial services grow about twice or two and a half times of what the economy, the GDP growth rates.

Parisians overwhelmingly buy small cars. And it's not because people are petite, but because fuel is drop-dead expensive. Gasoline costs more than twice as much in Paris as in New York.

Shaped like Texas, but twice as big, Mali is one of the poorest countries in the world. It exports almost nothing - mostly just cotton, gold and livestock - and doesn't have enough money to import much of anything, either.

Why don't we save and invest in our future and start making the things that millions of Chinese consumers are going to want in the future.

Britain wants the single currency to be a success. It is massively in our interests that we have a stable financial system on our doorstep.

So I analyzed that and decided I didn't want to be the president during a depression greater than the Great Depression, or the beginning of a depression greater than the Great Depression.