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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 we boost productivity, we can improve economic growth.

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.

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

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

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

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 you do not force political freedom, economic freedom will be stymied sooner or later.

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 you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.

If you spend more than 13 minutes analyzing economic and market forecasts, you've wasted 10 minutes

I got a chance to be in a society where the barriers between classes - social and economic - are not insuperable, where money is not everything all the time.

I had an economic system imposed on me.

I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic.

I know of no example in time or place of a society that has been marked by a large measure of political freedom, and that has not also used something comparable to a free market to organize the bulk of economic activity.

I, like everybody else, have lost most of my pension plan in this economic crash. So I have to. I'm going to call it I Slept With Everyone On Television.

I'm astonished at how readily a great many people I know, young people, have accepted a reduced economic prospect and limited freedoms in any substantial sense, and basically traded them for being able to screw around online.

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

I'm fundamentally not interested in the Fortune 500 companies - in US, Mexico, anywhere. The real backbones of economic growth are small and medium businesses.

I'm for economic independence.

I'm not a policy expert - I am only arguing that there is more to an education than an economic ticket.

In all societies that have applied a form of socialism, a certain degree of social economic equality has been achieved.

In any case I hold that there must arise a science of the development of economic forms and relations.

In all modesty, we must admit that governments are not always the best doctors when it comes to diagnosing economic ailments and prescribing the right treatment.

In any case, fighting will not settle whether the claims were just or unjust. It will only settle which nation can mobilize and handle its fighting forces and its economic forces the better.

In a polling conducted by the Wall Street Journal, 11 out of 12 Americans said they oppose the taking of private property, even if it is for public economic good.

In business, I look for economic castles protected by unbreachable 'moats'.

Inclusive economic institutions require secure property rights and economic opportunities not just for the elite but for a broad cross-section of society.

Increases in money supply are what constitute inflation, and a general rise in prices is the symptom.

Indeed, Britain was set to repeat the old, familiar cycle of boom and bust. Since then, we have created and rigorously adhered to a new framework of modern economic management

Indeed, I find it illuminating to consider to what extent our "classical conditions" for economic growth are satisfied in the current, monopolistic phase of capitalism.

In dire economic times, movies are relatively inexpensive entertainment for the whole family.

In economic life competition is never completely lacking, but hardly ever is it perfect.

Including the value of natural resources and our social capital in national accounting is a vital step to achieve economic growth that is equitable and sustainable.

Immigrants are more fertile, and they love families, and they have more intact families, and they bring a younger population. Immigrants create an engine of economic prosperity.