Quotes About Economy

It is futile to do with more things, that which can be done with less.

It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.

Our entire economy is built now on electronic money. It's all faith, and if a crack appears in that faith, then what?

Unfortunately, one of the things that is lacking in our society is a good financial education. Most people barely understand what the stock market is and how it operates, and options are a level above even that.

Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that they can milk. Only a handful see it for what it really is--the strong horse that pulls the whole cart.

Very soon they will have to choose on the one hand between economic and financial collapse or internal upheaval, and on the other a war which could have no other object

We, in short, propose to tax luxuries, monopolies, and superfluities, but we scrupulously avoid taxing the necessaries of life.

The drastic application of economic sanctions in July 1941 brought to a head the internal crisis in Japanese politics.

Germany only paid, or was able to pay, the indemnities later extorted because the United States was profusely lending money to Europe, and especially her. In fact, during the three years 1926 to 1929 the United States was receiving back in the form of debt-installment indemnities from all quarters about one-fifth of the money which she was lending to Germany with no chance of repayment. However, everybody seemed pleased and appeared to think this might go on for ever.

Long-term, bad politics is bad for business.

If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it's a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.

the economic sphere is like a thermometer that reveals both the temperature of the theological relationship between God and Israel (angle A), and also the extent to which Israel was conforming to the social shape required of them in consistency with their status as God's redeemed people (angle B).

The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.

Urique. As a mining village whose best days

Korima sounds like karma and functions the same way, except in the here and now. It's your obligation to share whatever you can spare, instantly and with no expectations: once the gift leaves your hand, it was never yours to begin with. The Tarahumara have no monetary system, so korima is how they do business: their economy is based on trading favors and the occasional cauldron of corn beer.

People are not being paid enough, and we have not increased the minimum wage -- and we should be incentivizing the people who go to work. We should make working full-time something that will pay a living wage.

On a different front, everybody said that casinos in South Africa would create jobs. They've had precisely the opposite effect. Wherever they've been erected, they've drained the local economy of money as poor people – seduced by the dream of becoming instant millionaires – have frittered away their hard-earned, meagre incomes on the slot machines. Consequently, local businesses and shops have suffered and have had to lay off

Five years ago, we thought of the Web as a new medium, not a new economy.

Markets rebounded quickly from morning jitters after the London Thursday terrorist bombing.

We used to be a nation of shopkeepers. Now we are a nation of second hand shops.

At the centre of the CCP's ambitious strategy for global economic domination is the push for China's currency, the renminbi or RMB (also known as the yuan), to become the foremost global currency, replacing the US dollar. The size of China's economy and the fact that the RMB is the second most used currency for trade helps, but financial markets know that China's financial system is not robust, and that the government manipulates it, which creates distrust.

if you are vulnerable economically, you are vulnerable all along the line.

The financial implode is bound to be reflected in the movies that are being made, there's no question.

The growth of these markets therefore seemed to reduce the need for information, other than the self-referential information being produced by the markets about themselves. This came to represent a higher reality than the 'real' economy.