Economics proverbs

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◆ I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle

- Henry Addington98

◆ The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn.

- Graham Greene98

◆ The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

- George Bernard Shaw98

◆ A society which is clamoring for choice, which is filled with many articulate groups, each urging its own brand of salvation, its own variety of economic philosophy, will give each new generation no peace until all have chosen or gone under, unable t

- Margaret Mead98

◆ Leaving prices out of the picture is probably the source of more fallacies in economics than any other single misconception.

- Thomas Sowell98

◆ People are companies too.

- Philip Rosedale98

◆ Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne98

◆ It is really gratifying, for example, to visit India now and see that because they've had good educational institutions, and they've had a focus on it, there are more and more people in India participating in the world economy.

- Bill Gates98

◆ Economy is too late at the bottom of the purse

- Seneca98

◆ We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism

- August Bebel98

◆ Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way

- Will Durant98

◆ Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised.

- John Kenneth Galbraith98

◆ I'd call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I'm afraid that would give witch doctors a bad name.

- Geraldine A Ferraro98

◆ Every time in this century we've lowered the tax rates across the board, on employment, on saving, investment and risk-taking in this economy, revenues went up, not down

- Jack Kemp98

◆ Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.

- Herbert Hoover98