Quotes About Economy

More people are working, lending is up and savings are up. These are all positive signs for a strengthening economy.

Banks should contribute to the real economy, make a positive contribution to economic growth.

World can run without money and currencies but not without business and trade.

Positive attitude toward time management would accelerate our economic development as we have never seen before.

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.

Our goal is a delightfully diverse, safe, healthy, and just world, with clean air, water, soil and power – economically, equitably, ecologically and elegantly enjoyed.

Business is in itself a power.

The power to tax involves the power to destroy;...the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create.

Nuclear is not only emissions-free, but renewing our commitment to nuclear power will create countless jobs at a time when our nation endures nearly double-digit unemployment.

Are we going to be a services power? The double-cheeseburger-hold-the-mayo kings of the world?

The nation is prosperpus on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole?

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

We are sure living in a peculiar time. You get more for not working than you will for working, and more for not raising a hog than for raising it.

It's a great country but you can't live in it for nothing.

In an online community, there's this kind of social economy between the community members. Some people have status because they make cool skins or that's a good website that's visited a lot, but there's no real gameplay there.

Engineering is the science of economy, of conserving the energy, kinetic and potential, provided and stored up by nature for the use of man. It is the business of engineering to utilize this energy to the best advantage, so that there may be the least possible waste.

If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose.

Full employment does not mean literally no unemployment; that is to say, it does not mean that every man and woman in the country who is fit and free for work is employed productively every day of his or her working life ... Full employment means that unemployment is reduced to short intervals of standing by, with the certainty that very soon one will be wanted in one's old job again or will be wanted in a new job that is within one's powers.

Many persons have of late left off the use of West-India sugar on account of the iniquitous manner in which it is obtained. Those families who have done so, and have not substituted any thing else in its place, have not only cleansed their hands of blood, but have made a saving to their families, some of six pence, and some of a shilling a week. If this, or a part of this were appropriated to the uses before-mentioned, it would abundantly suffice

Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.

You can tell a lot about a country which refers to the Royal Mint and the National Debt.

Despite declining catches, New England fishermen continue to receive state and federal tax incentives that encourage them in some cases all but compel them to acquire bigger boats and to harvest the seas more intensively. Today the fishermen of Massachusetts are reduced to fishing the hideous hagfish, for which there is a slight market in the Far East, but even their numbers are now falling.

Not all good works can turn a profit, but profits can be directed toward good. As Warren Buffett explains, "I've worked in an economy that rewards someone who saves the lives of others on a battlefield with a medal, rewards a great teacher with thank-you notes from parents, but rewards those who can detect the mispricing of securities with sums reaching into the billions.