Quotes About Economy

The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government's greatest creative opportunity.

Money is the best rule of commerce.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

Nothing knits man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of cash.

If you really think the environment is less important than the economy try holding your breath while you count your money.

Borrowers will default. Markets will collapse. Gold (the ultimate form of safe money) will skyrocket.

In a world where wealth is growing, you can get away with printing money. Doubling the debt over the next 20 years is not a problem.

There's not a lot you can do about the national economy but there is a lot you can do about your personal economy.

We Slovenians are even better misers than you Scottish. You know how Scotland began? One of us Slovenians was spending too much money, so we put him on a boat and he landed in Scotland.

Money does not arise by convention, any more than the state does. It arises out of exchange, and arises naturally out of exchange; it is a product of the same.

The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.

An honest money system is the only alternative.

There is no surer method of economizing and saving money than in the reduction of the number of officials.

It's easier to create money than to spend it.

You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.

When we think of the state of the economy, we are not thinking in terms of money flow. We are thinking in terms of the effect on everyday lives of people.

We're spending money that we don't have to solve a problem that doesn't exist at the behest of people we didn't elect.

It is impossible to add the stock of money to the flow of saving.

Money is the harvest of our production and service. We in turn use it to obtain the production and service of others.

The only way government bureaucrats know of keeping prosperity going is to inflate some more - to increase the deficit or to pump more money into the system.

In societies of low civilization, there is no money.

A lot of the money in the stock market is really our national retirement plan, for better or worse.

What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.

The Great Inflation of the 1970s destroyed faith in paper assets, because if you held a bond, suddenly the bond was worth much less money than it was before.