Quotes About Economy

Innovation, I believe, is the only way that America will regain the initiative in a global dynamic economy.

EROEI [energy returned on energy invested, or net energy] is to a civilization what gross profit is to a business, the source of the surplus that supports the entire enterprise.

Business is other people's money.

It is important to remember that all business has an impact on the lives of real people.

If we are going to carry on growing, and we will, because no country is going to forfeit its right to economic growth, we have to find a way of doing it sustainably.

Wall Street had been doing business with pieces of paper; and now someone asked for a dollar, and it was discovered that the dollar had been mislaid.

America is one of the biggest businesses in the world, and the people who run it can't balance their budget. We need business people in there and lobbyists out of there.

I support transitioning from the progressive tax to a flat tax system - both individual and corporate/business.

A recession is when you have to tighten your belt; depression is when you have no belt to tighten. When you've lost your trousers - you're in the airline business.

I want business to prosper and make a profit caused by business expansion and prosperity

One of the biggest problems out there that I hear from my friends in the business community is that there's no lending, that it's tough to get a loan today.

The business of America is business.

Banking is a branch of the information business.

Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

We need to repeal Dodd-Frank act. It is eviscerating small businesses and small banks.

American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.

Business cannot prosper in societies that fail.

Industry pays debts, while despair increases them.

Healthcare is very much a high priority for me. Healthcare is also a huge issue for business, both big and small.

I'm not in the business of reading tea leaves. I don't have a crystal ball.

But let me tell you what happens when regulations go too far, when they seem to exist only for the purpose of justifying the existence of a regulator. It kills the people trying to start a business.

It is business that generates the jobs, income and taxes that keep a country going.

We're operating this planet like a business in liquidation.