Economics Greed Quotes

#1. We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#2. That means following a very restrictive fiscal and monetary policy which will squeeze the monopolies and cut their subsidies. On the micro level we will allow other economic agents, both domestic and foreign, to compete with them.

Vaclav Klaus

#3. Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#4. The most difficult owner for me was the late George Marshall of Washington.

Pete Rozelle

#5. The great thing about behavioural psychology and economics is that they help us to see that there are actually pretty good reasons why human beings swing from greed to fear, and why we're not really calculating machines or utility-maximisers.

Niall Ferguson

#6. Communal/managed economics have always been more destructive of their societies than those driven by greed

Frank Herbert

#7. There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning.

Warren Buffett

#8. But females in even the most advanced Muslim countries are simply, by law, not the equal of men.

Bill Maher

#9. There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.

Samuel Johnson

#10. An' there never yet was speculation but in the long run, it meant smash. Ye run so hard that ye fall ower yoursel

Neil M. Gunn

#11. The communists may not have done very well in the end, but I can't help thinking of capitalism as merely the go-to religion of the greedy and selfish.

Pansy Schneider-Horst

#12. We need to move beyond the demonisation of overpaid traders ... In finance and economics, ill-designed policy is a more powerful force for harm than individual greed or error.

Adair Turner

#13. Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises with debt spending

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#14. I love that sometimes we need to go to the opposite side of the world to realize assumptions that we didn't even know we had and realize that the opposite may also be true.

Derek Sivers

#15. Perhaps he has confused making money with freedom.

John Charles Chasteen

#16. People used to make money, but somewhere along the way, it started making us.

Trevor D. Richardson

#17. Socialism is politicized envy.

Rousas John Rushdoony

#18. I'm just trying to understand what's around me as much as anyone else is, really. To draw a bead on a moving target.

Dylan Moran

#19. The agrarian crisis [in India] is an unnecessary tragedy, resulting directly from an economics of greed and a politics driven by the economies of greed.

Vandana Shiva

#20. [Conventional wisdom] very heavily tends to reflect the preferences and the interests of the elite.

Paul Krugman

#21. Free markets and capitalism are predicated upon the definition of greed as altruistic in economics".

~R. Alan Woods [2012]

R. Alan Woods