Economic Quotes
During the early 1960s, I decided to supplement research support for quantitative economic studies at Pennsylvania by selling econometric forecasts to private and public sector buyers.
A hiker who was lost in a blizzard said he stayed alive by digging a snow tunnel and burning dollar bills for warmth. Today he was offered a job as President Obama's economic adviser.
During difficult economic times, consumers gravitate toward the brands they know, the brands they love and trust.
Basic philosophy, spirit and drive of an organization have far more to do with its relative achievements than do technological or economic resources, organizational structure, innovation and timing.
When fewer workers have unions, the standard of living falls for everyone and the gap between the rich and poor grows.
Economic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.
Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.
The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.
The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.
The way to healthy living is to shift from quantitative economic growth to quality of life, food, water and air - to shift from craving to contentment and from greed to gratitude
Cruelty to animals is an enormous injustice; so is expecting those on the lowest rung of the economic ladder to do the dangerous, soul-numbing work of slaughtering sentient beings on our behalf.
Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.
The data is going to indicate sadly that when the Obama administration is over, black people will have lost ground in every single leading economic indicator category.
But economic recovery must be earned. And it will be earned by entrepreneurs and it will be earned by small businesses.
You cannot go to sleep with one form of economic system and wake up the next morning with another.
Economic freedom has no security without political freedom, and political freedom can find its security only in economic freedom.
We have to shift our emphasis from economic efficiency and materialism towards a sustainable quality of life and to healing of our society, of our people and our ecological systems.
We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.
Amsterdam must have more than a million people. But the only area where jazz is really profitable and successful in an economic sense is in Japan. That's because they haven't been exposed enough.
Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics.
Immigration is not just compatible with but is a necessary component of economic growth.
I am saying that the economic approach provides a valuable unified framework for understanding all human behaviour
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
The unforgivable sin of Hitler's Germany was to develop a new economic system by which the international bankers were deprived of their profits.
We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.
What good does it do to sit at the counter when you cannot afford a hamburger?
McCarthy generally, as an individual, was a liberal. He was, in economic philosophy and a lot of other things, extremely liberal.
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
If you lived with a roommate as unstable as this economic system, you would’ve moved out or demanded that your roommate get professional help.
The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That's why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system.
Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living.
True Sufism is resistance: spiritual, intellectual, social, cultural, political and economic resistance. It cannot be, for sure, supporting dictators.
Evolution is the root of atheism, of communism, nazism, behaviorism, racism, economic imperialism, militarism, libertinism, anarchism, and all manner of anti-Christian systems of belief and practice.
We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage.
When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it's not common sense yet.
Many white Americans of good will have never connected bigotry with economic exploitation. They have deplored prejudice but tolerated or ignored economic injustice.
We must put an end to both economic freeloading and economic exploitation in America. There must be no place for parasites who draw their sustenance from society without giving anything in return.
Even a wizard would have a great deal of difficulty repealing the economic law that higher minimum wages reduce employment. Since politicians are not wizards, they should not try.
Improvement of one's economic position is helped more by cool persistence than by hot enthusiasm.
It Is in the Agricultural Sector That the Battle for Long- Term Economic Development Will Be Won or Lost.
Everywhere in the world there are tensions - economic, political, religious. So we need chocolate.
The economic crisis really affected my family - 2006 to 2011 were really bad times. Almost everybody in my family lost their jobs.
Economic theory is the most prestigious subject of instruction and study. Agricultural economics, labor economics and marketing are lower caste fields of study.
