Best 694 quotes in «economic quotes» category

The collapse of communism and a recognition of its economic and humanitarian catastrophes took the romance out of revolutionary violence and cast doubt on the wisdom of redistributing wealth at the point of a gun.

Our churches are full of people during work hours, morning, noon, evening, praying instead of being in the factories, libraries, laboratories, facilitating economic growth

Over the years there also has been a transitional shift of labour legislations being exclusively employee oriented to advanced socio-economic lex of harmonious construction, emphasizing on the overall development of the economy builders (work-force) of the nation.

Priceless is economic illusion. Costless is an economical trick.

Your talent is any capability which creates economic value for an organization’s customer or shareholder.

The opportunity cost of an unlived dream is not only that dream, but also the dreams the dream was meant to inspire.

We should be disciplined and responsible and then our prosperity will be stable despite any economic crisis, inflation or a change of government

What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is the escapist mentality becomes prevalent, giving birth to the syndrome of economic refugees.

The secret of real prosperity in the church is to teach God’s people principles of economic empowerment

Well we're waiting here in Allentown, For the Pennsylvania we never found, For the promises our teachers gave, If we worked hard, If we behaved... So the graduations hang on the wall, But they never really helped us at all, No they never taught us what was real, Iron and coke, And chromium steel, And we're waiting here in Allentown... But they've taken all the coal from the ground, And the union people crawled away...

You will miss a normal life while living a successful life, but not as much as the craving for a successful life while you were living a normal life.

A Darwinian nation of economic fitness abhors idleness, dependence, non-productivity.

Abortion happens because of economic circumstances.

Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society.

Actually, voting in countries like Indonesia is unpatriotic, as it only legitimizes the regime, which serves foreign political and economic interests, as well as those totally prostituted 'elites'.

Adam Smith was aware of the way that economic interests could have a distorting and destructive effect both on the market and on politics.

Aggressors cannot wage total war without introducing Socialism.

After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.

Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn't done too badly.

a labor victory must be economic and it must be revolutionizing.

A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.

A leader has to know how the system functions - not just the system of government but the whole social and economic system, including business, the unions, and the universities.

All countries have problems with China's economic power.

All physical and economic tests that may be devised are worthless if the immigrant, through racial or other inherently antipathetic conditions, cannot be more or less readily assimilated.

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.

All three of the leaders looked like they were surprised to be asked about housing. And really none of them had anything interesting to say. And so this is something we need to push hard on to ensure that they understand that our housing crisis is really a major economic issue. It's not a social issue; it's an economic issue.

A market is not politically neutral; its existence creates economic power which one actor can use against another.

And lastly, the political revolutions from 1911 to the present time have done more to bring about tremendous social changes everywhere than even the economic and industrial changes and the new schools.

Any life is lived in a particular time and place. Every life is impacted by the family's socio-economic circumstances, and, in later life, by the person's.

A reasonable estimate of economic organisation must allow for the fact that, unless industry is to be paralysed by recurrent revolts on the part of outraged human nature, it must satisfy criteria which are not purely economic.

As a consequence [of a closed economic circle], in 1912 there was not a single Irishman who sat on a single board of a major Boston bank.

As a major economic force worldwide, India and Indian companies have the opportunity to set the standards in Asia in terms of women's right to decent work.

As corollaries to the right of every individual to life and to full participation in society, the Declaration incorporated in the list of human rights the right to work and a certain number of economic, social, and cultural rights.

As far as social-economic theory is concerned, I am still a Marxist

As governor, I saw the link between economic prosperity and the ability to acquire knowledge.

Asia has an army of low-wage laborers to thank for its economic boom.

As I visualize it, the business of the future will be a scientific, social and economic unit. It will be vigorously creative in pure science where its contributions will compare with those of the universities...

As soon as a woman's primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the beauty myth redefined it as the attainment of virtuous beauty. It did so to substitute both a new consumer imperative and a new justification for economic unfairness in the workplace where the old ones had lost their hold over newly liberated women.

A stable Iraq at peace with its neighbors will remain elusive until we improve both the security and the economic environment in Iraq.

As the world's sole remaining super power and economic powerhouses, our nation's ability to be at the forefront of innovation and production has enabled unparalleled economic success of our nation's workforce.

As women in industrial societies join the paid workforce, they gain the economic means to depart unhappy marriages more easily.

A terrorist nuclear detonation in a western city would destroy all economic confidence.

Australians have defied global economic gravity.

A vital function of the free market is to penalize inefficiency and misjudgment and to reward efficiency and good judgment. By distorting economic calculations and creating illusory profits, inflation will destroy this function.

Barack Obama is an economic patriot.

Barack Obama has fatally undermined our currency, our solvency, our financial stability, and - ultimately - our economy all to spend money that has had no economic effect!

Banks should contribute to the real economy, make a positive contribution to economic growth.

Being listed by Facebook was like being recognized by a global economic superpower. It has enormous impact.

Big businesses aren't the only ones in the economic ecosystem. Nobody should fall behind because of an unfair structure.

Brand equity doesn't change based on economic considerations.