Quotes About Economy

I think the Chinese will say the hell with you and pull their money out of the United States. That's the end of our wars.

If we had a hydrogen economy worldwide, every nation on earth could create its own energy source to support its economy, and the threat of war over diminishing resources would just evaporate.

What thrust us into war were not Hitler's political teachings: the cause, this time, was his successful attempt to establish a new economy. The causes of the war were: envy, greed, and fear.

Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so we have to have these wars. I think it's incumbent upon us to.

When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.

The whole economy of this lower world proves that it is by labor and perseverance only that good is obtained and evil is avoided.

There seems to be three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war...this is robbery; the second by commerce, which is generally cheating; the third by agriculture, the only honest way.

The right hon. Gentleman will be known for ever as the only Chancellor in the post-war period who brought this country to the brink of bankruptcy.

Today the economic development of Armenia is as important as victory in the war was yesterday. Our battle has moved from the field of blood and heroism, to the economic field.

The West has funded the war against itself by buying Arab oil. It is as simple and as tragic as that.

I don't want to go to a trade war, I want to beat China. I want to go to war with China and make America the most attractive place in the world to do business.

We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.

In the meantime, as tax receipts dwindled, the library's budget was cut by almost a quarter.

After the stock market crash, book circulation rose by sixty percent, and the number of patrons almost doubled.

Someone had to make sure that farmers, who grew more grain than their families needed, would sell food to the nonfarmers (the basketmakers, leatherworkers, and carpenters) who grew no grain themselves. Only in an inhospitable and wild place is this sort of bureaucracy—the true earmark of civilization—needed. In genuinely fertile places, overflowing with water and food and game and minerals and timber, people generally don't bother.3

Farmers could do better if the government didn't meddle and the free market was allowed to take its course. And we could all grow at least some of our food, if we invested a bit of work.

This explains why I've been making Recession Tea- letting a teabag steep for half the time it should so I can use it again for a second cup later.

He spoke in telegram-as if every word he used cost five bucks, and he only had a twenty in his wallet.

Why bother pinching pennies when the dollars had fled long ago?

Take a spin through your monthly spending and challenge yourself to cut your nonessential costs by at least 20%—something I recommend whether you are 35 or 75.

war capitalism also nourished the emerging secondary sectors of the economy such as insurance, finance, and shipping, sectors that would become exceedingly important to the emergence of the British cotton industry, but also public institutions such as government credit, money itself, and national defense.

We sometime didn't get enough to buy oats for our horses. Most banks had very little money in them.

I think Canada, our industry is still somewhat based in America's industry.

A premium in the oil price of somewhere between 10 to 15 dollars a barrel reflects this heightened anxiety.