Economics Quotes
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With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper
Thorstein Veblen
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Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.
Sam Ewing
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Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.
Ludwig von Mises
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Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It`s almost always the wrong response.
Larry Summers
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In economics, the majority is always wrong.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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If commerce is the engine of our economy, then advertising is the spark. Responsible advertisers are the drivers who keep us on the right track, leading to a richer, more benevolent society.
Brian Philcox
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Economists are pessimists: they`ve predicted 8 of the last 3 depressions
Barry Asmus
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What conditions of work, what kinds of work, what kinds of management, and what kinds of reward or pay will help human stature to grow healthy, to its fuller and fullest stature ? Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of hum
Abraham Maslow
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Leaving prices out of the picture is probably the source of more fallacies in economics than any other single misconception.
Thomas Sowell
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The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
Thomas Sowell
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I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared.
Thomas Jefferson
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Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow
Calvin Coolidge
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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, subsidise it
Ronald Reagan
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There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it`s only a hundred billion. It`s less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.
Richard Feynman
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Socialism failed because it couldn`t tell the economic truth; capitalism may fail because it couldn`t tell the ecological truth.
Lester Brown
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In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
Peter Drucker
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There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity.
Aaron Owens
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If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
George Shaw
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Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
Adam Braidwood
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