Quotes About Economy

Now, in the modern money economy everything in the nature of a social-economic occurrence consists in human actions and behaviour.

Contrary to popular belief or desire, in a global economy, the government is no longer the lead player, it is more an umpire. We

The cut in the repo rate is not the end of policy making; it gives the government an opportunity to take bold decisions. Over

The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.

The Soviet constitution guarantees everyone a job. A pretty scary idea, I'd say.

Give a boy twenty thousand dollars and put him in business, and the chances are that he will lose every dollar of it before he is a year older. Like buying a ticket in the lottery; and drawing a prize, it is "easy come, easy go." He does not know the value of it; nothing is worth anything, unless it costs effort. Without self-denial and economy; patience and perseverance, and commencing with capital which you have not earned, you are not sure to succeed in accumulating.

Japan's economy had remained strong. So called 'Dutch' learning- useful Western knowledge- was circulating in Japan well before Commodore Perry's arrival. A strong local tradition of banker-merchants and an efficient tax collection system meant that the Japanese economy was not crippled by foreign loans of the kind that banished Egypt, the first non-Western country to modernize, to the ranks of permanent losers in the international economy.

Imperialism has not allowed us to achieve historical normality,' Octavio Paz lamented in The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950). Paz was surveying the confused inheritance of Mexico from colonial rule, and the failure of its many political and socio-economic programmes, derived from Enlightenment principles of secularism and reason. Paz himself was convinced that Mexico had to forge a modern politics and economy for itself.

Suicide and depression rates, to take one revealing statistic, have shot up in countries with the fastest-growing economies. So has the number of young suicide bombers attempting their own version of podvig.

Walmart...do they make walls there?

While I was at Microsoft, the annual revenues grew larger than the GDP of the Republic of Ghana.

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

N]o nations with a massive debt has ever remained a great power.

Where did China get that $20 billion? From consumers at Walmart and all of us who purchase goods made in China. That $20 billion is just 1 percent of the $2 trillion in trade surpluses Beijing has run up with the United States over two decades.

In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.

No one goes around suggesting that everyone should become their own autonomous cheesemakers and cheering the death of the cheese industry. Why? Because that would result in a lot of shitty cheese.

It is a peculiar hallmark of the American economy that you can produce a dangerous product and effectively off-load any legal liability for whatever destruction that product may cause by pointing to the individual responsibility of the consumer

It is a peculiar hallmark of the American economy that you can produce a dangerous product and effectively off-load any legal liability for whatever destruction that product may cause by pointing to the individual responsibility of the consumer. "Abusers aren't victims," Richard said. "They are the victimizers.

Mind if I sit down?" asked Conrad. "It's a free country," said Toni. "Then why is everything so expensive?" said

The difference between civil servants and private businessmen is that when a central planner makes a mistake, he is likely to disrupt the whole economy and not just a single business.

The 1980s have been described as the "lost decade" for Latin America. My view is different: it was one of lost opportunities.

For it is no railways, roads, and power stations that give rise to industrial capitalism: it is the emergence of industrial capitalism that leads to the building of railways, to the construction of roads, and to the establishment of power stations.

Not all developing countries are the same.

Persuading everyone to behave decently to each other because the society is so fragile is a worthy goal, but it may be more straightforward just to make the societies less fragile, which means developing their economies.