Quotes About Economy

When trust is lost, a nation's ability to transact business is palpably undermined.

America is not a country, it's a business.

All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.

You can't tax business. Business doesn't pay taxes. It collects taxes.

In principle, there are only three main components of spending that much matter to monetary policy: consumer spending, business investment and exports and trade.

The politicians say 'we' can't afford a tax cut. Maybe we can't afford the politicians.

I wish someone would give me one shred of neutral evidence that financial innovation has led to economic growth — one shred of evidence.

Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steel-making.

Employees pay the highest percentage of taxes. Big business and investors pay the least.

Big business always serve - directly or indirectly - the masses.

We're going to start making things again in America. As part of our plan to bring back our jobs, we're going to lower our business tax from 35 percent to 15 tax, the biggest since Ronald Reagan.

You could transfer Congress over to run Standard Oil or General Motors, and they would have both things bankrupt in two years.

Your income is directly related to your philosophy, NOT the economy.

I was asked what I thought about the recession. I thought about it and decided not to take part.

Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.

A hotel is a place that keeps the manufacturers of 25-watt bulbs in business.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

A stock is not just a ticker symbol or an electronic blip; it is an ownership interest in an actual business, with an underlying value that does not depend on its share price.

The periods of unemployment accompanying depression in the business cycle . . . present a challenge to all our claims to progress, humanity, and civilization.

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

The greatness of America is capitalism, free market capitalism. The exceptionalism of American business.

Business model innovation is constant in this economy. You start with a vision of a platform. For a while, you think there's a line of sight, and then it's gone. There's suddenly a new angle.

The Federal Reserve needs to provide small businesses in America with the same low-interest loans it gave to foreign banks.

The fundamental problem with banks is what it's always been: they're in the business of banking, and banking, whether plain vanilla or incredibly sophisticated, is inherently risky.