Economic Quotes
I am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.
I have always believed that the ultimate purpose of economic policies and development policy is to meet the basic needs of our people. And for that, we need a fast-expanding economy.
People end up fleeing countries who adopt economic policies based on these flawed principles. And more often than not, they come here.
No economic system is perfect. But the American Free Enterprise system has empowered millions of people in the past. I know, because I saw it with my own eyes.
Free enterprise is the best economic system in the history of the world, because it is the only system where you can make poor people richer and you don't have to make rich people poor.
We need to shift from an economic to a humanitarian organizing principle for human civilization. And women, en masse, should be saying so.
For a society as abundant and as blessed as ours, to have as many disadvantaged children as we have does not bode well for our long-term economic future.
We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation, and reform the labor laws.
For too many, the dream of economic mobility has been replaced with a nightmare of economic stagnation.
Conventional economic theory... counts the depletion of resources as the accumulation of wealth.
Now the Republicans have a very low-scale, by economic standards, base. Donald Trump has.
The Democrats have an economic message that is directed at people at the lower end. That has been their cornerstone. The Republicans has been more upscale.
The Fed's low-interest policy not only encourages spending and borrowing, it discourages the one thing that best helps people raise themselves into higher economic classes — saving.
You could power America with renewables from a technical and economic standpoint. The biggest obstacles are social and political - what you need is the will to do it.
In a normal time, I don't think economic policy makes a large difference one way or another. But in times of crisis it makes all the difference in the world.
I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic.
We need economic growth in Europe and we need to find a solution for the excessive interest rates that are making it difficult for many countries to get their own debt under control.
We won't get any growth in Greece by just imposing cuts. What I would prefer is a special economic zone for Greece.
I do not think that we have psychological and ethical and economic problems. We have human problems, with psychological, ethical and economical aspects, and as many others as you like.
Ireland is not in a good place at the moment. We have our own humiliation of losing our economic sovereignty, and we're now regaining it slowly and painfully.
Publishers are private businesspeople who must reach their economic goals independently.
I do think Donald Trump has conservative instincts. I think he had anti-Obama instincts. I think he saw Obamacare, the Obama foreign policy, the Obama economic policies as harmful to America.
My belief is that the purpose of economic life is to meet the social needs of people.
Mobile is the perfect example of what is enabling economic growth in the technology sector.
There's something beautiful about the fact that Obama was not just elected, but elected decisively across racial, and socio-economic and cultural groups and that we all celebrated in his win.
What amazes me is when I see people in their twenties who have families or live a life that seems of a much older person. But that's such a demographic, a socio-economic, cultural, class thing.
With economic opportunity, sometimes it's making sure that if they're not in a place where they can have good jobs, that when they have economic opportunity, they have digital tools to use.
Small businesses are the economic drivers of our country, providing the stimulus our communities need.
The ideological foundation of today's business schools is that economic control should be shifted out of government hands into those of financial managers - that is, Wall Street.
The aim of academic trade theory is to tell students, "Look at the model, not at how nations actually develop." So of all the branches of economic theory, trade theory is the most wrongheaded.
Delaware State has established itself as an institution of excellence in its own right and attracts a diversity of students from various races, socio-economic status and locations.
In order to achieve optimal economic growth, Congress must adhere to sane spending guidelines while promoting smart policies devoted to growing businesses and creating jobs.
Global poverty is an "input" on the supply side; the global economic system feeds on cheap labor.
The civil war in Rwanda and other ethnic massacres were an integral part of US foreign policy, carefully staged in accordance with precise strategic and economic objectives.
Humanity is undergoing, in the post-Cold War era, an economic and social crisis of unprecedented scale leading to the rapid impoverishment of large sectors of the world population.
According to the World Bank, the concentration of wealth and the structures of corporate economic power have no bearing on woman's rights.
Lost in the barrage of images and self-serving analysis are the economic and social causes of the conflict.
Corporations are mandated, in effect, to 'grow or die,' a rule also called 'the growth imperative.'
We are in a social and political context in which the norm is to punish poor folks of color rather than to educate and empower them with economic opportunity.
As a major economic force worldwide, India and Indian companies have the opportunity to set the standards in Asia in terms of women's right to decent work.
There's so much going on in the healthcare system that makes it difficult for women to really have a strong economic hold if insurance is always an issue.
Economics has become increasingly an arcane branch of mathematics rather than dealing with real economic problems.
If China don't free up the political side, its economic growth will come to an end - while it is still at a very low level.
Through pro-growth policies, by abolishing Obamacare and eliminating other Obama-imposed impediments to economic growth, we will get our economy back on track.
I think there is need for economic stimulus... and government can help make that up in a very difficult time.
When it comes to our foreign policy, Mitt Romney seems to want to import the foreign policies of the 1980s, just like the social policies of the 1950s and the economic policies of the 1920s.