Quotes About Economy

A y regarder de près, les 7 péchés capitaux sont éminemment favorables à l'économie : l'envie, la gourmandise, la luxure font acheter, la colère fait travailler, la paresse fait jouir, l'orgueil avive la compétition et l'avarice favorise l'épargne. C'est d'ailleurs le propre du système capitaliste que de transformer ainsi tout ce qu'il touche, même le pire, en or.

a second-rate nation run with the economic vision of an Armenian pastry shop.

Cheap booze is a false economy.

It would not be an exaggeration to say that the land question in Zimbabwe is the single most decisive one.

Capitalism. Downfall.

I always look upon the capacity to save money as little short of miraculous.

A greater subject fitteth Faustus' wit: Bid Economy10 farewell, and11 Galen come, Seeing, Ubi desinit philosophus, ibi incipit medicus: Be a physician, Faustus; heap up gold, And be eterniz'd for some wondrous cure: Summum bonum medicinae sanitas, The end of physic is our body's health.

When war makes commerce and commerce is law, profit rules prudence and justice is flawed.

War is the lifeblood of this merchant republic.

Soon U.S. corporate investment was expanding more rapidly in Hitler's Germany than in any other country in Europe, despite the worldwide economic depression.

The black world is much more than an archipelago of secret bases. It is a secret basis underlying much of the American economy.

When I look back at the last decade, I think the following: There are some very wealthy people, but a lot of their incomes are from financial innovations that do not translate to gains for the average American citizen.

Firms and employers and monitors will be able to measure economic value with a sometimes oppressive precision.

All of the criticisms one might mount against the corporate form—some of which are valid—pale in contrast to two straightforward and indeed essential virtues. First, business makes most of the stuff we enjoy and consume. Second, business is what gives most of us jobs. The two words that follow most immediately from the world of business are "prosperity" and "opportunity.

And to be blunt—while I know I can't prove this—I wonder how much of the middle class consists of people in government or protected service-sector jobs who don't actually produce nearly as much as their pay.

Currency inflation is to the government what as anesthetic is to the surgeon; it provides an easy and painless way of separating the rich from their savings and reducing the wages of all employed persons in the community.

The city was a parasite upon the farm; the bourgeois slept late and wore fine clothes and did no real work, but charged the peasant high prices for tools and clothing and all the things he had to have.

All the losses came back on those who had fixed incomes and salaries; the only gainers were speculators, and those fortunate few whose incomes were in dollars.

When ranked by the size of their labor force, in 1960 11 out of America's 15 largest companies (led by GM, Ford, GE, and United States Steel) were producers of goods employing more than 2.1 million workers; by 2010 just two makers of goods, HP and GE, employing about 600,000 people, were among the top 15, and the group is now dominated by retailers and service-providing firms (Walmart, UPS, McDonald's, Yum, Target).

Claims about the dematerialization of modern economies and about a postindustrial world in which manufacturing does not matter are costly misinterpretations of fundamental realities.

I wrote this book because I wanted to narrate the great, and a truly nation-building, story of US manufacturing—and because I believe that without the preservation and reinvigoration of manufacturing, the United States has little chance to extricate itself from its current economic problems, meet the challenges posed by other large and globally more competitive nations, and remain a dynamic and innovative society for generations to come.

In contrast to Soviet innovation failures, the post-1990 economic development of China is the best recent, and historically unequaled, example of mass-scale innovation based on rapid appropriation of a wide array of foreign inventions.

Between 1800 and 2020, we reduced the labor needed to produce a kilogram of grain by more than 98 percent—and we reduced the share of the country's population engaged in agriculture by the same large margin.50 This provides a useful guide to the profound economic transformations that would have to take place with any retreat of agricultural mechanization and reduction in the use of synthetic agrochemicals.

steel, ammonia, cement, and plastics.