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Quotes About Economy

Where there is commerce there is peace.
~ Jeffrey Tucker
The biggest threats to human survival today are not wars or conflict, it is modern business.
~ Steven Magee
Frankly I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.
~ Joseph Heller
6, 000 people were killed, crippled, and wounded during the War of Independence. The economy was devastated - there was no milk, just milk powder. No eggs, but egg powder. Meat was only once a week.
~ Yitzhak Navon
Did you ever think that making a speech on economy is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
It is significant that the nationalization of thought has proceded everywhere pari passu with the nationalization of industry.
~ Edward Hallett Carr
With such wisdom has nature ordered things in the economy of this world, that the destruction of one continent is not brought about without the renovation of the earth in the production of another.
~ James Hutton
[Government's] great contribution to human wisdom...is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.
~ H. L. Mencken
Unless we increase our economy's productivity-its vitality and competitiveness-we will face pressure for increasing controls.
~ Charles H. Percy
To not say all that can be said is the secret of discipline and economy.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
Technology has no function except to save labor. Yet how often do we hear that the purpose of new capital formation is to create jobs?
~ Louis O. Kelso
Our present predicament comes from the fact that running the economy on blood is no longer fashionable. We can't end this depression with another war.
~ Louis O. Kelso
We must give the American worker the first option of ownership.
~ Jesse Jackson
This animal called man has some religious influence, but he is guided by economy.
~ Swami Vivekananda
The prosperity of a nation's commerce cannot be durable, unless it be founded upon a solid basis," Rochefoucauld-Liancourt warned; "and the solid basis of a nation's commerce is the produce of its soil, of its manufactures.
~ T.J. Stiles
It won't kill you to wear that same pair of socks one more day.
~ Tadahiko Nagao
But now, more and more, its society is concerned with economy and finance.
~ Tadao Ando
A great debt is a great evil and a great national debt is a great national evil.
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My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.
~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist.
~ Tammy Faye Bakker
If you're perfectly happy with what you've got–specially if what you've got isn't even all that spectacular–then you're dangerous. You're breaking all the rules, you're undermining the sacred economy, you're challenging every assumption that society's built on.
~ Tana French
According to Abdul Kalam Azad, 'It is one of the greatest frauds on the people to suggest that religious affinity can unite areas which are geographically, economically, linguistically and culturally different.
~ Taslima Nasrin
Most of us have learned from experience that cheap goods and services are usually not as good as more expensive goods and services. Paying more will often buy a better house, a better car, better clothing, better airline seats, and better service. It is, therefore, understandable that many investors believe that paying more for expensive funds, expensive financial advice, and expensive investments will result in better results. The opposite is nearly always true.
~ Taylor Larimore
The economy goes into a recession after the latest flu pandemic, prompting changes in the virtual worlds.
~ Ted Chiang