Quotes About Economy

There will be no job cuts arising out of this merger in Europe - this is in the interest of jobs in Europe.

This is not about creating a giant. It's about creating the sustainability of the steel industry.

Our system - of debt-fueled economic growth, of ineffective democracy, of overloading planet Earth - is eating itself alive.

The term "too big to fail" must be excised from our vocabulary.

I'm cautious about the currency situation, oil pricing and the economies of some countries not performing as we are expecting.

Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence, and anyone who can read without moving his lips should know it by now.

What we have been living for three decades is frontier capitalism, with the frontier constantly shifting location from crisis to crisis, moving on as soon as the law catches up.

Our national security is at risk when we rely on foreign oil to keep our economy moving forward.

Taking employment out of the country - now that's taking away jobs. These shows employ a lot of people: production, post-production, music supervisors, camera people. A hundred people or more.

In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.

Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.

There may be a recession in stock prices, but not anything in the nature of a crash.

Without the land, the rivers, the oceans, the forests, the sunshine, the minerals and thousands of natural resources we would have no economy whatsoever

What we call 'economic growth' is in fact a growth in waste and a decline in the health of natural habitat

Nature is not a drag on growth - its protection is an unavoidable prerequisite for sustaining economic development.

A depression is a large-scale decline in production and trade...there is nothing in the nature of a free-market economy to cause such an event.

In the economy of nature nothing is ever lost. I cannot belive that the soul of man shall prove the one exception

It is inherent in the nature of the capitalistic economy that, in the final analysis, the employment of the factors of production is aimed only toward serving the wishes of consumers.

If it's unenvironmental it is uneconomical. That is the rule of nature

If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to do it by means of several; for we observe that nature does not employ two instruments [if] one suffices.

Like nature itself, modern economic life is driven by relentless competition and unbridled selfishness. Or is it?

The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged... and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.

Consumption is also immediately production, just as in nature the consumption of the elements and chemical substances is the production of the plant.

Capitalism, by its nature, entails a constant process of motion, growth and progress.