Economy Quotes - Page 26

For any economy, there are two basic factors determining how many jobs are available at any given time. The first is the overall level of activity - with GDP as a rough, if inadequate measure of overall activity - and the second is what share of GDP goes to hiring people into jobs. In terms of our current situation, after the Great Recession hit in full in 2008, US GDP has grown at an anemic average rate of 1.3 percent per year, as opposed to the historic average rate from 1950 until 2007 of 3.3 percent.

Economists can certainly disappoint you. One said that the economy would turn up by the last quarter. Well, I'm down to mine and it hasn't.

We definitely need to get the excitement back.

As I traveled the world over, I traveled everywhere, and I learned so much.

My wife taught me the importance of living well.

You don't grow the economy by growing government.

The opposing tendencies of concentration and spread are of little consequence in the liberal model of political economy.

Despite its increased dependence on the international economy, America continues to behave as if it were either a closed economy or the leader whom everyone else should automatically follow.

The world economy diffuses rather than concentrates wealth.

In a true free market economy, you can't make yourself rich without enriching your community.

What's new is high oil prices and the economy hates high oil prices.

Builders need to take their preeminent position back from the traders for the economy of the future to flourish.

Post-1989 capitalism was far more unfriendly to economic and social rights than was the prior capitalism seeking to win public approval as a more compassionate economic arrangement than that which prevailed in state socialist economies.

What both the state and the capitalist economy oppose is an understanding of what might be called "the true nature of things" (using the phrase without metaphysical pretensions), especially injustices and exploitative practices.

There's an economy of violence. It's sexy. It's being exploited.

As much wisdom may be expended on a private economy as on an empire, and as much wisdom may be drawn from it.

[Obama White House] rescued the economy from the worst recession.

Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.

Consisting mostly of recirculating scrapped metals, 80% of all the metals that have ever been mined are still at work.

It should not be the government running the economy.

There is no gain so certain as that which arises from sparing what you have.

Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.

The state has an active role to play in ensuring that there is equilibrium between the constituent parts of the economy, the consumers and the producers.

We have benefited greatly from the globalization of the economy in the last 30 years.

Our economy is broken. I'm not a politician, but neither is Donald Trump. He is a builder, and it's time to rebuild America.