Economic Quotes - Page 21

The profit motive promotes economic growth by creating better products at cheaper prices.

No one spends someone elses money as carefully as he spends his own.

Spain is facing an economic situation of extreme difficulty, I repeat, of extreme difficulty, and anyone who doesn't understand that is fooling themselves.

We need more than new policies. We need a new worldview, and a new bottom line. We need to replace economic values as our ordering principle, with humanitarian values as our ordering principle.

Government is a guarantor of liberty and is compatible with liberty only if its range is adequately restricted to the preservation of what is called economic freedom.

What vitiates entirely the socialists economic critique of capitalism is their failure to grasp the sovereignty of the consumers in the market economy.

What economic calculation requires is a monetary system whose functioning is not sabotaged by government interference.

Among the Mormons, things temporal have always been important along with things eternal, for salvation in this world and the next is seen as one and the same continuing process of endless growth. Building Zion, a literal Kingdom of God on earth, has therefore meant an identity of religious and economic values: in the daily affairs of the Kingdom, Latter-day Saint scriptures call for unity, welfare, and economic independence.

It makes no sense to talk of the social obligations of the corporation without reference to its economic obligations. The two are intertwined.

Bad times are indelible. They stay with you forever.

I got politics and economics moving and then others took over.

Mathematics brought rigor to Economics. Unfortunately, it also brought mortis.

Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile the models with everyday observation.

What we are beginning to witness is a whole new set of rules for economics, based on rationing resources.

Slovakias joining the OECD in 1999 is totally dependent on meeting economic reforms required such as transparency and legislation that permits fair and open conduct of trade and business.

The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should. I've got Greenspan's book.

Men will not always die quietly.

There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.

Economics is a very dangerous science.

In the conventional wisdom of conservatives, the modern search for security is regularly billed as the greatest single threat to economic progress.

Education is critical not only to each one of us individually, but also to build the economic vitality of our state.

It's a terrible thing to be a worker exploited in the capitalist system. The only worse thing is to be a worker unable to find anyone to exploit you.

Already, China has undermined U.S. foreign policy in efforts to gain access to oil resources in Iran and Sudan. We simply cannot separate the political and economic values of oil.

Any system of economics is bankrupt if it sees either value or virtue in unemployment.

Economics is a social science, not a physical science.