Quotes About Economic Decline

#1. Inequality makes the pie of things smaller, yet economists measure the size of the pie not by how much substance it contains but by its price. It is entirely possible, therefore, for economists to measure as growth what most people experience as economic decline.

Moshe Adler

#2. Through exploitation of its influence over global financial affairs, the United States has been able to cover the costs of its hegemonic position, preserve a false domestic prosperity, and mask the consequences of its relative political and economic decline.

Robert Gilpin

#3. History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse, or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster.

Douglas MacArthur

#4. States with high and rising tax burdens are more likely to suffer economic decline; those with low and falling tax burdens are more likely to enjoy strong economic growth.

Lawrence Kudlow

#5. Every business is a monarchy with, not a man, but an idea as king.

Henry Ford

#6. The three ages of man: youth, middle age and 'my word you do look well'.

June Whitfield

#7. The world is full of novels in which characters simply say and do. There are certainly legitimate genres in which this is sufficient. But in real and lasting writing the character is.

Ruth Park

#8. Real investment risk is measured not by the percent that a stock may decline in price in relation to the general market in a given period, but by the danger of a loss of quality and earnings power through economic changes or deterioration in management.

Benjamin Graham

#9. Even if you don't win you learn. So there's no losing. You win the fight or you learn.

Renzo Gracie

#10. If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political.

Stephen Bayley

#11. Unlike Hegel's progress model of history, which moves by stages, each containing its own logic of growth and decline, the economic model develops as the simple function of one money-variable over time, with a long-term trend which increases monotonically.

John Carroll

#12. The U.S. dollar is in terminal decline. America is tragically bankrupt, unable to pay its lenders without printing the dollars to do so, and enmeshed in an economic depression. The clock is ticking until the dollar faces a crisis of confidence like every other bubble before it.

Peter Schiff

#13. When gross public debt exceeds 90 percent of GDP, economic growth tends to decline considerably.

Kevin McCarthy

#14. In the problems lie the opportunities. You become strong by facing adversities.

Debasish Mridha

#15. The dynamic of globalisation in financial and economic terms, but also in geopolitical terms, confronts Europeans with a stark choice: live together, share a common destiny and count in the world; or face the prospect of disunity and decline.

Jose Manuel Barroso

#16. I just sort of try to be a good person; try to write music that lifts people and makes me feel good to sing.

Carole King

#17. The economic and social decline of Zimbabwe is shocking and appalling. Life there is unrecognisable from that of the recent past. Each day is a struggle for basic survival.

Lucy Powell

#18. What we call 'economic growth' is in fact a growth in waste and a decline in the health of natural habitat

Satish Kumar

#19. Russians clearly perceive America's global influence as being in irreversible decline and American society shattered by major political, economic and ideological crises.

Ivan Krastev

#20. The period-effects model refers to influences specific to particular points in time - effects thought to be unique economic or demographic circumstances to which any observable fluctuations in population growth or decline may be attributed.

Brian A. Hoey

#21. Knowing that an economy is in decline is not enough. We must know why the economy is failing to achieve economic growth if we are to take steps to establish or reestablish it.

Jeffrey D. Sachs