Economic Quotes - Page 9

The West has been able to bring Afghanistan a much better health service, better education, better roads, a better economy, though some have benefited more; some have benefited less from that economic well-being in Afghanistan.

Any man who is only an economist is unlikely to be a good one.

Margaret Thatcher was fearful of German unification because she believed that this would bring an immediate and formidable increase of economic strength to a Germany which was already the strongest economic partner in Europe.

There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity.

Every man lives by exchanging.

Japan has joined the sanctions against the Russian Federation. How are we going to further economic relations on a new and much higher basis, at a higher level under the sanctions regime?

Education is the best economic policy there is.

I am sure the euro will oblige us to introduce a new set of economic policy instruments. It is politically impossible to propose that now. But some day there will be a crisis and new instruments will be created.

It is almost as if the human brain were specifically designed to misunderstand Darwinism, and to find it hard to believe

I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.

Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at.

I don't want to transform America. I want to restore to America the economic values of freedom and opportunity and limited government that has made us the powerhouse of the world.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

The desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom.

There is no such thing as economics, only social science applied to economic problems.

In all societies that have applied a form of socialism, a certain degree of social economic equality has been achieved.

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

There is a golden thread which runs through British history of the individual, standing firm against tyranny and then of the individual participating in his society

Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.

Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook

The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history.

The companies only developed if the state did not intervene in the French fashion. If on the contrary a certain degree of economic freedom was the rule, capitalism moved in firmly and adapted itself to all administrative quirks and difficulties

Well, the questioner came from Singapore, which has perhaps the best economic record in the history of developing an economy. And therefore he referred to 15 percent per annum as modest. It's not modest, it's arrogant.

I'm not a macroeconomics person.

I quickly convinced myself that the true key to material happiness lay in a modest standard of living which could be achieved with little difficulty under almost all economic conditions.