Economy Quotes

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. (Ronald Reagan)
Collaboration is important not just because it's a better way to learn. The spirit of collaboration is penetrating every institution and all of our lives. So learning to collaborate is part of equipping yourself for effectiveness, problem solving, innovation and life-long learning in an ever-changing networked economy. View quote
Don Tapscott
I take great pride in having been able to overcome the Asian financial crisis and seeking the opportunities available to bring about an unprecedented growth in the economy. View quote
Zhu Rongji
It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. View quote
Douglas MacArthur
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. View quote
Hjalmar Schacht
The idea of abolishing Income Tax is to me highly attractive, both on other grounds & because it tends to public economy. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. View quote
Edmund Burke
In art economy is always beauty. View quote
Henry James
The president has very little effect on the economy. If you want to put blame or credit, the main person who influences the business cycle is the head of the Federal Reserve Bank. View quote
Robert Fogel
It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least. View quote
F. H. Bradley
A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it ... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. (Milton Friedman)
It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy. View quote
Stephen Leacock
The 'private sector' of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and the 'public sector' is, in fact, the coercive sector. View quote
Henry Hazlitt
You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say? View quote
Toni Morrison
I hold it the duty of the Executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditures, and a sparing economy is itself a great national resource. View quote
Andrew Johnson
The dreams of the 1960s began to disappear in the 1970s. The economy collapsed, and so did the optimism of the Metabolists. View quote
Toyo Ito
I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Seeing an economy that is, in many ways, quite different from the one grows up in, helps crystallize issues: in one's own environment, one takes too much for granted, without asking why things are the way they are. View quote
Joseph Stiglitz
Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its second-rate status. View quote
Stephen Harper
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. View quote
Hannah More
I believe that monetary policy has a chronic defect. It is asymmetric-it works better in restraining an economy than in stimulating an economy. (Lawrence Klein)
Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy. View quote
Sarah Palin
Architecture depends on Order, Arrangement, Eurythmy, Symmetry, Propriety, and Economy. View quote
Vitruvius
A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bourgeois political economy ... never gets to see man who is its real subject. It disregards the essence of man and his history and is thus in the profoundest sense not a ‘science of people' but of non-people and of an inhuman world of objects and commodities. View quote
Herbert Marcuse