Best 694 quotes in «economic quotes» category

Here's the problem if you keep raising tax rates: You slow down economic growth.

History is fickle. We know that. The good and bad come around and go around, and go around again. There are recessions and depressions and economic boom and bust.

History shows that tax increases during a recession are a recipe for greater unemployment and economic loss.

...housing activity will remain healthy for some time to come.

I always knew that Neil Kinnock belonged in the economic nursery. Now, God help us we've got twins.

Human creativity is the ultimate economic resource.

Iago is the dominant trance state of our planet. It influences our relationships, our sexuality, our parenting, and our attempts to relax. It permeates corporate business, international politics, and our economic system.

I always go with the dictionary definition of feminism, which is just social, political and economic equality for women.

I am not a politician but I have dedicated the biggest part of my professional life to economic policy both in Greece and Europe.

I am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.

I am not confident that Europe can make it.

I am convinced that God Himself is tampering with the economic system of the world to reduce us back to Him.

I am convinced that through these measures we have reestablished confidence.

I am not interested in an economic liberation of man without the liberation of the whole man.

I believe there's an emerging American majority for progressive economic change.

I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.

I became very much, if I have to describe myself, I'm sort of a Libertarian Capitalist, and I was looking for, what's the economic engine that's going to drive us into space?

I believe in salvation through economic, social, and spiritual freedom.

I can be free only to the extent that others are forbidden to profit from their physical, economic, or other superiority to the detriment of my liberty.

I don't find the idea of sewing degrading. A thing is degrading when you are forced to do it, through economic reasons or through slavery or some other form of compulsion.

I can see Obama trying to be the president who suggests solutions for everyone who has experienced economic hardship.

I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.

I do not know what horrified me most [during the depression]: the economic misery of my companions [or] their moral and ethical coarseness.

I don't know who you would blame for this, whether Ricardo or others, but we created a fictitious economic theory to praise a rentier or rent-derived, interest-derived capitalism that countered productive forces within the economy.

I don't know too many people that are good at timing the market relative to macro-economic events.

If democracy is justified in governing the state,then it must also be justified in governing economic enterprises, and to say that it is not justified in governing economic enterprises is to imply that it is not justified in governing the state.

I don't read economic forecasts. I don't read the funny papers.

I don't miss the economic insecurity, the living paycheck to paycheck.

I don't worry about new home sales

If a business is to be considered a continuous process, instead of a series of disjointed stop-and-go events, then the economic universe in which a business operates-and all the major events within it-must have rhyme, rhythm, or reason.

I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes

If small business goes, big business does not have any future except to become the economic arm of a totalitarian state.

If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters

If one could divine the nature of the economic forces in the world, one could foretell the future.

I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.

If people understood how the economic system works, there'd be a revolution in a minute.

If the machinery for distribution in the present economic system of the world is incapable of properly distributing the productive wealth of nations, then that system is false and must be altered.

If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.

If the US economic landing is soft there will be no consequences (for Europe).

If the resources of different nations are treated as exclusive properties of these nations as wholes, if international economic relations, instead of being relations between individuals, become increasingly relations between whole nations organized as trading bodies, they inevitably become the source of friction and envy between whole nations.

If the world economy is divided into isolated economic blocs of this kind, it will be rather difficult to achieve the same interpretation and application of international rules of economic activity and world trade.

If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.

If we don't rebuild that connection with people we will really find even bigger gaps, because our gap on inequality is not just economic.

If we boost productivity, we can improve economic growth.

If we have major geographic areas within our continent that have a tremendous lack of economic opportunity, we found that that is going to produce instability economic, political and social.

If we did not have a patent system, it would be irresponsible, on the basis of our present knowledge of its economic consequences, to recommend instituting one. But since we have had a patent system for a long time, it would be irresponsible, on the basis of our present knowledge, to recommend abolishing it.

If you analyze the production of coca in Colombia, you will realize that it is like economic cycles. It goes up and down, it goes up and down depending on the circumstances.

If we were to impose greater sanctions on economic sectors, I think we could have a significant impact on Putin.

I had an economic system imposed on me.

If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.