Quotes About Economy

We need to root out the waste and abuse that is rampant in our state agencies. When we do that and grow the economy, we will be able to fund the vital programs and services we need.

The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to establish means of communication and transportation, was enormous.

Instead of raising taxes as some would insist, we need to reduce waste and inefficiency in government.

The most important thing is to not waste your money.

Besides being a prime cause of poor economic growth, poor governance breeds corruption, which cripples investment, wastes resources, and diminishes confidence.

People's taxes spent on servicing our national debt, instead of funding public services. This isn't just a waste - it's also a risk.

I don't like to waste anything. Any food left over from the night before is always eaten the next day.

I'm really interested in how you create a whole new economy of recycling. It's literally the 'underground economy.' All this stuff that on the surface creates growth and profit, ends up with waste, junk, and CO2. So how do you make it economic to bring new players into the ball game?

Offal and offcuts such as head and feet can be picked up for next to nothing, and eating them helps to avoid waste.

The creams I use are not expensive. Nivea is just as good. Why waste a fortune?

Our myopic focus on producing and consuming as cheaply as possible has created a linear economy in which objects are briefly used and then discarded as waste.

I was raised by my Depression-era grandma who taught me to use what you've got: Waste not, want not!

Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth's treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.

But the dollars spent on economic incentives and new investment strategies are wasted unless we seriously address the two most important economic issues in Kansas: education and health care.

What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn't just spent and wasted - it was borrowed, spent, and wasted.

The blockade against American natural-gas exports needs to be lifted, and the war on coal needs to be ended, so that, instead of being wasted to replace perfectly good coal-generated electricity, our natural-gas exports can be expanded even further.

People in the business world lament economic resources wasted on unsustainable development projects and what they see as activists' naive failure to grasp the importance of building strong economies.

Somewhere along the way to free-market capitalism, the United States became the most wasteful society on the planet.

As a taxpayer, I want to assure you that Republicans are doing everything we can to reduce wasteful spending.

Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources.

I'm not interested in wasting money on a project.

I'm cheap, and so I don't like wasting.

Watch your finances like a hawk.

The Wall Street Dow Jones up and down thing that's moving when the stock market's open? That thing freaks me out. It's up, it's down, it's just maddening to me. I guess I'm such a super-focused kind of person that I get distracted really easy. I'll watch that thing, and it's like I'm losing money, I'm getting money. It's just crazy.