Quotes About Economy

With rising incomes, the share of expenditures for food products declines. The resulting shift in expenditures affects demand patterns and employment structures.

Clothing should be like food. There should never be a $5000 sweater. You know what should cost $5000? A car.

As a consequence while we had a roof over our heads, food on the table, and clothes to wear to school we were constantly conscious of being of modest means.

We should tax things we don't like. We should tax pollution ... And we should lighten the taxes on things we do like, like honest labor, like food.

If commodity prices are no longer going up then food prices in the grocery store will no longer go up, at some point.

Food shortage will be to the 1990's what oil shortage was to the 1970's.

Back in the 1960s Africa not only fed itself, it also exported food. Not anymore.

There's never been a culture that wasn't obsessed with food. The sort of sad thing is that our obsession is no longer with food, but with the price of food.

At the beginning of a dynasty, taxation yields a large revenue from small assessments. At the end of the dynasty, taxation yields a small revenue from large assessments.

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.

In todays uncertain economy, the safest solution to be wealthy, be in total control and enjoy freedom for you and your family is to have multiple streams of income.

Profits are the driving force of the market economy. The greater the profits, the better the needs of the consumers are supplied... He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.

If we internationalize everything, we end up with rules that stifle freedom and innovation.

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

The system of capitalism, of the market economy, is a system of freedom, of justice, of productivity. But these three virtues cannot be separated. Each flows out of the other.

The degree of a country's freedom is the degree of its prosperity.

I grew up in a socialist country. And I have seen what that does to people. There is no hope, no freedom. No pride in achievement.

The fact is that we cannot drill our way to independence. We cannot drill our way to freedom, and we cannot drill our way to create jobs in this country.

Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights government should never be permitted to take those away.

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.

A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours.

The vast majority of our imports come from outside the country.

In the dog-eat-dog economy, the Doberman is boss.

Growth is a funny sort of concept. For example, our GNP increases every time we build a prison. Well, okay, it's growth in a sense.