Economics quotes

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◆ Neither Obama nor Romney will be able to 'heal' our 'pockets' during the next four years. The only thing I'm sure about is that George Bush fucked the economy up and everyone is blaming Obama for all that shit!

- Jean-Paul Malfatti100

◆ The nation that buys commands, the nation that sells serves; it is necessary to balance trade in order to ensure freedom; the country that wants to die sells only to one country , and the country that wants to survive sells to more than one.

- Jose Marti99

◆ Henry Ford was right. A prosperous economy requires that workers be able to buy the products that they produce. This is as true in a global economy as a national one.

- John J Sweeney99

◆ What conditions of work, what kinds of work, what kinds of management, and what kinds of reward or pay will help human stature to grow healthy, to its fuller and fullest stature ? Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of hum

- Abraham Maslow99

◆ We did it [Disneyland], in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.

- Walt Disney99

◆ We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we now know that it is bad economics.

- Franklin D Roosevelt99

◆ To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.

- Alvin Toffler99

◆ Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.

- Paul A Samuelson99

◆ True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

- Franklin D Roosevelt99

◆ Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.

- Sam Ewing99

◆ If commerce is the engine of our economy, then advertising is the spark. Responsible advertisers are the drivers who keep us on the right track, leading to a richer, more benevolent society.

- Brian Philcox99

◆ Mark this well, the laws of economics are the last thing the roads booster is thinking about

- Aldo Leopold99

◆ When a management team with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

- Warren Buffett99

◆ The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

- Thomas Sowell99

◆ One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know

- John Kenneth Gilbraith99