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Quotes About Economy

Our vision is not just of economic growth, but also of a growth which would improve the life of the common man.
~ Manmohan Singh
Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful.
~ E. F. Schumacher
In capitalism, profit does not come out of another man's hardship; it comes out of new production of new wealth that's never existed before.
~ Andrew Joseph Galambos
Reason can never be the absolute dictator of man's mental or moral economy.
~ Anthony Daniels
We are men on a budget. I mean, why go all the way to Amsterdam when you can just go to Harry Hines?
~ Anthony Langston
Thirty-six years after coming to America, the man once known by fellow body­builders as the Austrian Oak was elected governor of California, the seventh largest economy in the world.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as in the Colonies there is not a single unemployed man, no poor and no vagabonds.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Men who cannot exploit the co-operative benefits derived from institutions in modern knowledge economies are discriminated against by girls and so have fewer children
~ Christopher Wills
Whatever men live for, today most live only because of the market order.
~ Friedrich August von Hayek
I believe that if you are talking about economic stress, the systems of the world are very fragile, and if we put our hope and trust in the systems that men have created, they will guarantee failure.
~ Myles Munroe
The only way that a government can provide for jobs for all citizens is by deciding what every man should do.
~ H. L. Mencken
For God's sake, be economical with your lamps and candles! not a gallon you burn, but at least one drop of man's blood was spilled for it.
~ Herman Melville
One man's consumption becomes his neighbor's wish.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Only in very recent times has the average man been a source of savings.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
We have no mom-and-pop oil rigs in Norway.
~ Erik Naggum
When you think of couponing, you picture a mom cutting coupons out of the back of the newspaper.
~ Andrew Mason
The vast majority (over 80 percent) of fast-food and similar low wage service jobs (<$9.24/hr) are held by adults. A quarter are adults over 40. Another quarter are moms raising kids.
~ David Rolf
A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned.
~ Benjamin Franklin
We are lending money we don't have to kids who can't pay it back to train them for jobs that no longer exist. That's nuts.
~ Mike Rowe
We could manage to survive without money changers and stockbrokers. We should find it harder to do without miners, steel workers and those who cultivate the land.
~ Aneurin Bevan
No government can exist without taxation. The money must necessarily be levied on the people; and the grand art consists of levying so as not to oppress.
~ Frederick The Great
If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
~ James Madison
Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
~ Irving Fisher