Economy Quotes - Page 10

Whether I played marbles, whether I played football or slam anything else, I wanted to excel.

Speaking of prostitutes, big oil's top call girl Sen Inhofe wants to kill fuel economy backed by automakers, small biz, enviros, & consumers.

There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.

Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation.

The stock market and economy are two different things.

The desire for an increase of wealth can be satisfied through exchange, which is the only method possible in a capitalist economy, or by violence and petition as in a militarist society, where the strong acquire by force, the weak by petitioning.

It's a measure of the depth of our consumer trance that the death of the planet is not sufficient to break it.

In Virgil's account of the good housewife, who rises early in order to measure out the work of the household, and in Solomon's description of the thrifty woman of his time, one sees the value set upon feminine industry and economy in times far removed from our own.

Internal protectionism in Europe would be deadly, really a disaster for European economies.

The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.

We (British) have reached the state where the private sector is that part of the economy the government controls and the public sector is that part that nobody controls.

It was always my practice to train salespeople under my direct supervision, and to treat children with the utmost consideration.

Clock watchers never seem to be having a good time.

It has been shown that, in contrast to everything which classical national economy has hitherto taught, not the producer but the consumer is the ruling factor in economic life.

economy spoils pleasure

Let's make sure that there is certainty during uncertain times in our economy.

Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but in selection.

Other things, like capitalism, free enterprise, the economy, currency, the market, are not forces of nature, we invented them. They are not immutable and we can change them.

There are two Americas - separate, unequal, and no longer even acknowledging each other except on the barest cultural terms. In the one nation, new millionaires are minted every day. In the other, human beings no longer necessary to our economy, to our society, are being devalued and destroyed.

There can be no economy where there is no efficiency.

I'd throw dollars out of helicopters if I had to, to stimulate the economy.

The economy in Gaza is declining because Gaza is controlled by a terror regime.

It has always amazed me how tax cuts don't work until they take effect. Mr. Obama's experience with deferred tax rate increases will be the reverse. The economy will collapse in 2011.

Economy: that what you played had to have meaning, not just a bunch of sixteenth notes. You learn to make better choices of notes as you get older.

The lifeblood of the economy is that the banking community is a circulatory system for American capitalism.