Economics Quotes

Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?

Cutting budget deficits can never be just an exercise in economics.

If the present economic structure can change only by collapsing, then it had better collapse as soon as possible.

I would say that reproductive freedom comes first, then violence and economics.

But what I really believe is education is a key to pretty much everything - prosperity, economics, peace, stability.

The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.

Democracy will defeat the economist at every turn on its own genre.

Stop-Go seemed more sensiblr than using the brake and accelerator at the same time - a practice that later became fashionable.

Bankruptcy and repudiation are the springboards from which much of our civilization vaults and turns its somersets, but the savagestands on the unelastic plank of famine.

We now know that anything which is economically right is also morally right. There can be no conflict between good economics and good morals.

The questions of economics, and how they infect, or rather how they affect intimacy. And that's probably the subject of all my films.

Economics is on the side of humanity now.

The inscrutability [of economics] is perhaps not unintentional. It gives endless employment to dialecticians who otherwise might become public charges or, at very worst, swindlers and tricksters.

The surtax payers, having been soaked, have found a way to get out of the rain.

Economics is a slave-driver. No one has free time; no one has any leisure.

From 1931 to 1937, I was a Fellow and Lecturer in Economics at Hertford College, Oxford.

Two Americans have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics. They are the first to figure out all the charges on their telephone bill.

I do understand the free market, having my economics degree, and if someone on the right had some good ideas, I'm not so dogmatic that I wouldn't listen to them.

I'il n'est pas en notre pouvoir de changer la nature des choses. Il faut les йtudier telles qu'elles sont.

I'm one of the top 2 or 3 or 4 most conservative members in the House of Representatives when it comes to economics.

There is no single theory that is used in economics that considers the finite nature of resources. It's shocking.

It's not only possible, but likely that the Nobel Prize in economics will go in alternate years to people who disagree on nearly everything fundamental.

Never trust an economist with your job. Learn about economics yourself. And make up your own mind about what might protect your job - and what might destroy it.

It is easy to be compassionate with other people's money

My friends, that's trickle-down economics, and I believe every worker in America is tired of being trickled on by George W. Bush

Economics is not an exact science.

The fully planned economy, so far from being unpopular, is warmly regarded by those who know it best.

In economics it is a far, far wiser thing to be right than to be consistent

In economics, unlike fiction and the theater, there is no harm in a premature disclosure of the plot: it is to see the changes just mentioned and others as an interlocked whole.

It is my guiding confession that I believe the greatest error in economics is in seeing the economy as a stable, immutable structure.

I've been a faithful reader of the great classical documents of economics, or tried to be.

Economics as a discipline has in effect become the study of capitalism. The two are taken as the same subject.

My role is to find strategic insights as to where design can have the most business impact. A designer can bring a viewpoint of not just aesthetics, but economics and usage.

I'm going to be honest: I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues. I still need to be educated.

It's a fundamental aspect of the free enterprise system and economics: If there's no penalty associated with increased costs, why not lay on increased costs?

Commercial organisations that operate responsibly have benefitted by increased revenues of 682% compared to 166% for those that don't

Going to the moon is not a matter of physics but of economics.

Conservatism must be based on allowing everyone to become an owner - equity for everyman.

Human beings are no longer born to their place in life...but are free to employ their faculties and such favorable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may appear to them as desirable.

The momentum today behind the idea of a new global reserve currency reflects, in effect, the rise of the rest in world politics and economics, led by China.

When it comes to economics, president-elect [Donald] Trump has promised to revive American manufacturing, get tough on trade with China, cut taxes and invest in infrastructure.

I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.

I am stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents.

Economics in college was very poor; I was not very impressed with it. I actually wanted to study statistics. I discovered mathematical statistics as an undergraduate and was fascinated with it.

The economy of the future might be called the "spaceman economy," in which the earth has become a single spaceship, without unlimited reservoirs of anything.

Economics, we learn in the history of thought, only became a science by escaping from the casuistry and moralizing of medieval thought.

I have been gradually coming under the conviction, disturbing for a professional theorist, that there is no such thing as economics - there is only social science applied to economic problems.

A lot of my colleagues have been people with broad interests in economics, not just narrowly focused interests.

Start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient.

I just knew that economics had never been my big motivation.