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Quotes About Economy

Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
use an item for its intended purpose. For example, do not just use a tablecloth for a table, make it a slip cover for your ottoman. It can save you lots of money and time when you purchase
~ Teri B. Clark
You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.
~ Terry Eagleton
Anyone in politics would like to have great economic numbers.
~ Terry McAuliffe
I've gone to China, bought a manufacturing company and moved it to America. Now China wants to buy back some of that new technology from me. That's a great story for America.
~ Terry McAuliffe
I don't imagine Heads of Government would ever be able to say I'm not an economist therefore I can't take decisions on matters of the economy I'm not a soldier I can't take decisions on matters of defence I'm not an educationist so I can't take decisions about education.
~ Thabo Mbeki
Frugality should ever be practised, but not excessive parsimony.
~ The Hitopadesa
The practical orders of life, while purporting to benefit man, serve in a profit economy to stunt human qualities, and the further they spread the more they sever everything tender.
~ Theodor Adorno
One man's poverty is another man's employment opportunity.
~ Theodore Dalrymple
The position now taken by the Government is absolutely destructive of legitimate business, because they outline no rule of conduct for business of any magnitude.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
we must abandon definitely the laissez-faire theory of political economy, and fearlessly champion a system of increased Governmental control, paying no heed to the cries of the worthy people who denounce this as Socialistic.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
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~ Theodore Zeldin
There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
~ Thomas Carlyle
The movement from Industry to Information would prove to be the fundamental economic shift of the next four decades, and it was hardly some secret conspiracy even then. Going forward, as Daniel Bell had explained, knowledge would replace labor, services would replace goods, and a new knowledge-based power class would emerge that would increase the role of women in the economy.
~ Thomas Dyja
For the first time in twenty-five years there was no Person of Color on the Board of Estimate, whatever traditional roles they'd had in City government erased. Squeezed by growing immigration, the breakdown of old political networks, a changing economy and soon, waves of drugs, crime, and disease, New York's African Americans would be forced over the next thirty-five years into new cultural and social strategies that would in turn change the world.
~ Thomas Dyja
In theory, bad economic times should pull prices down, but the glut of global petrodollars kept pushing inflation up while high unemployment held wages down, giving birth to Stagflation. Lindsay raised taxes to make up for sliding revenues, but it wasn't enough, and here's where the nosedive began. State funds and property taxes come to the City twice a year, so to maintain cash flow it has to regularly borrow hundreds of millions of dollars.
~ Thomas Dyja
During the Great Depression, levels of crime actually dropped. During the 1920s, when life was free and easy, so was crime. During the 1930s, when the entire American economy fell into a government-owned alligator moat, crime was nearly non-existent. During the 1950s and 1960s, when the economy was excellent, crime rose again.
~ Ben Shapiro
It's estimated for every $1 billion we spend on road construction, nearly 48,000 jobs are created.
~ Dennis Hastert
When I first started doing work on how the Internet is affecting commerce, like a lot of people, I was really excited by this nearly perfect market.
~ Erik Brynjolfsson
I ended up being the governor of a very ag state, Nebraska.
~ Mike Johanns
However, leaving everything to the market is not necessarily good for society.
~ Dorothy Denning
So our focus has to be on the things that we can control, which is to take the necessary measures working with Congress to ensure that our economy grows, that we create jobs.
~ Jay Carney
In India, we have the opportunity to give innovation the kind of scale that no other country in the world can. Innovation is a necessity.
~ Chanda Kochhar
Ultimately, the decision to expand Medicaid is one of common sense and necessity; the facts make it clear that it is good for state economies, good for hospitals, and good for the people who need healthcare coverage.
~ Steve Bullock