Economic Quotes - Page 2

There was never anything so well devised by men which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted

The major economic policy challenges facing the nation today - pick your favorites among the usual suspects of low public and household savings, concerns about educational quality and achievement, high and rising income inequality, the large imbalances between our social insurance commitments and resources - are not about monetary policy.

Big-government economics breeds crony capitalism. It's corrupt, anything but neutral, and a barrier to broad participation in prosperity.

The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history.

I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage.

Leadership produces change. That is its primary function

The carrying out of the Potsdam Agreement has, however, been obstructed by the failure of the Allied Control Council to take the necessary steps to enable the German economy to function as an economic unit.

Art and work and art and life are very connected and my whole life has been absurd. There isn't a thing in my life that has happened that hasn't been extreme - personal health, family, economic situations...absurdity is the key word.

In embracing change, entrepreneurs ensure social and economic stability.

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.

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

Some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naive trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system.

We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflect global social needs, and that all the world's people share the benefits of globalization.

Globalisation is not something that we can hold off or turn off. It is the economic equivalent of a force of nature, like wind or water.

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

National security is vital for economic and social progress.

My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy

Grouping and mutuality of countries and peoples in the Balkans is the only road that leads to economic, national and political liberation.

I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

The coming change can only come through a revolution, because the possessing class will not allow a peaceful change to take place; still we are willing to work for peace at any price, except at the price of liberty.

The Green New Deal is about creating economic security for everyone, and doing it quickly.

You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.

The essential point to grasp is that in dealing with capitalism we are dealing with an evolutionary process

All public resources go to the rich. The poor, if they can survive in the labor market, fine. Otherwise, they die. That's economics in a nutshell.

The budget should be balanced not by more taxes, but by reduction of follies.