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Quotes About Economy

The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order.
~ Ibrahim Babangida
Nothing cheap without reason.
~ Idries Shah
What is missing in our economic system is a central value that can encompass everything that can be transacted and used to assign the proper relative value to everything.
~ Ilchi Lee
It isn't enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into, 'How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?'
~ Colin Powell
Economically, Pinus is the most important of all the genera of trees. There are vast plantations worldwide of several species, in the Southern Hemisphere as well as the Northern, like those of Caribbean pine (Pinus caribaea) near Brasilia and Monterey pine (Pinus radiata) just about everywhere.
~ Colin Tudge
They say 3 million people are looking for a job. False: all they really need is money.
~ Coluche
He who does not economize will have to agonize.
~ Confucius
Do not use a cannon to kill a mosquito.
~ Confucius
For President Obama, 'home of the brave' are not just the last words of our national anthem, but also a call to action. This is why the president's policies and our platform include incentives to train and hire our troops returning home. Not only because of our moral responsibility, but because it makes for a stronger, more secure American economy.
~ Cory Booker
Why are people unemployed? Because there is no work. Why is there no work? Because people are not buying products and services. Why are people not buying products and services? Because they have no money. Why do people have no money? Because they are unemployed.
~ Craig Bruce
Every dollar I can't commit to my company that's paid in taxes is paying a government that I believe is too big and doing way too much that I don't want done.
~ Curt Schilling
I don't have any problem with government helping entrepreneurs and businesses.
~ Curt Schilling
I've helped create over 400 jobs in the worst economy of my lifetime. That's cool.
~ Curt Schilling
Modern man is one who drives a mortgaged car over a bond financed highway on credit card gas!
~ Unknown
Seashells were money before coin, jewelry before gems, art before canvas.
~ Unknown
The mills have not been doing well lately, have they?' 'No, not since the end of the war. Armies use up a great many cotton goods, you see, and we in England were supplying not only our own army but those of our allies as well.' He gave her a small, quirky smile. 'You may not believe it, ma'am, but at one time we were supplying Boney's army too!
~ Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
The situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans and the last thing we need to do is to spend money on death, destruction and war.
~ Cynthia McKinney
It does not require an economist to realise that a nation's wealth lies in the wealth of her citizens. Moneyed people are an asset to a nation, paupers are a liability. Take a man with an income of ten thousand a year, he is a valuable asset. The State can depend upon him for a definite yearly income. Then the man dies and the property—instead of passing to his son and continuing to yield the same yearly income to the State—has to be broken up and sold to pay death duties.
~ D.E. Stevenson
The Comedy of Emasculation that Judd Apatow and his disciples have made into a separate economy was invented by the Farrelly brothers, 'Kingpin' being the strongest version of that.
~ Elvis Mitchell
Healthcare is growing now at about 10 per cent per annum in the U.S. top line, versus 3 per cent for the economy. As someone with a sharp pencil and an eye for this kind of thing, this can't last.
~ James Chanos
I have not made any suggestions about climate change. This is more about blending or shifting the conversation about the environment versus the economy. It's just such an old, outdated conversation.
~ Jennifer Granholm
It's businesses versus big government. We don't need big government. We need a more efficient, lean government, and that's exactly the kind of government we intend to deliver.
~ Sher Valenzuela
By the year 2040, the world's population is likely to increase by about 2 billion people, with also projected economic output will be up about 130 percent versus the year 2010.
~ Rex Tillerson
We are fed up with complaints that Mexico is stealing jobs from U.S. manufacturing. We are part of the solution that has maintained competitiveness for the U.S. versus China.
~ Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal