Top 100 Quotes About Economies
#1. In essence, capitalist systems are a mechanism by which economies may generate growth in knowledge - with much uncertainty in the process, owing to the incompleteness of knowledge.
Edmund Phelps
#2. I worry about another leg down in the economies causing social disruption because deleveragings can be very painful - it depends on how they're managed.
Ray Dalio
#3. Every monopoly is unique, but they usually share some combination of the following characteristics: proprietary technology, network effects, economies of scale, and branding.
Peter Thiel
#4. Partly, the Russian system succeeds because, in contrast to the Western industrial economies, it makes full use of its manpower.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#5. As a member of the House Committee on Small Business and because of my own experience as a small business owner, I am appreciative of the impact these small businesses have on our local economies.
Melissa Bean
#6. In order to combat climate change, there's a real need to start localizing our economies
Naomi Klein
#7. Congress must take responsibility for a new positive direction - an innovative agenda that will lead to a more secure America. Secure communities, secure economies, and a secure quality of life.
Rick Larsen
#8. I want to initiate a bilateral agenda that helps Mexico and the U.S. together compete with the world better, especially with the economies of Asia and the Pacific.
Enrique Pena Nieto
#9. Often young black people are looking towards the alternative economies. They are looking towards the drug economy ... the economies that are going to that apparently will produce some kind of material gain for them.
Angela Davis
#10. I was the one that brought it in, but not only for the north-east, for every area so we can develop all the regional economies, lift up the national productivity, get greater wealth and share it more evenly.
John Prescott
#11. The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history.
Lawrence Summers
#12. When women breached the power structure in the 1980s?two economies finally merged. Beauty was no longer just a symbolic form of currency: it literally became money.
Naomi Wolf
#13. How is the body, including the observing body, becoming a component of new machines, economies, apparatuses, whether social, libidinal, or technological? In what way is subjectivity becoming a precarious condition of interface between rationalized systems of exchange and networks of information?
Jonathan Crary
#14. The size of General Motors is in the service not of monopoly or the economies of scale but of planning.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#15. Economics is not a discipline that comes to correct answers - economies are too complex.
Adam Davidson
#16. As African economies boom and businesses are created, one of the big questions this growth raises is that of third-level education: how can Africa develop a knowledge infrastructure to rival that of the west, a sort of Harvard University in Africa?
Richard Attias
#17. Without entrepreneurs, economies become poor and weak. The old will not exist, the new can't enter
Lester Thurow
#18. As the economies of Kentucky and West Virginia lagged behind those of their neighbors, the mountains had only two products that the industrial economies of the North needed: coal and hill people. And Appalachia exported a lot of both. Precise
J.D. Vance
#19. Today, banking assets (that is, loans) in the world's major economies are equivalent to around 150 per cent of those countries' combined GDP.
Niall Ferguson
#20. America and Japan are the two leading world economies in terms of technology and innovative products. And in software, information-age technology and biotechnology the U.S. has an amazing lead.
Bill Gates
#22. States have the responsibility to create rules and conditions for growth and development, and to channel the benefits to all citizens by providing education and making people able to participate in the economies, and in decision-making.
Anna Lindh
#23. It used to be that companies with industrial economies of scale created business success. Now, success will come from the information economies of scale, either the ones with complete breadth, or complete depth.
Tucker Max
#24. There was a real fear that a euro-zone bank might fail, that we'd have a sovereign debt problem in one of the larger European economies. That's dissipated, thanks largely to the action of the European Central Bank.
George Osborne
#25. Life has its share of fears and failures. Sometimes things fall short. Sometimes people fail us, or economies or businesses or governments fail us. But one thing in time or eternity does not fail us-the pure love of Christ.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#26. Apart from their work and production, households perform other important economic functions. Most CONSUMPTION occurs within the household ... In developed capitalist economies, private consumption spending accounts for half or more of GDP.
Jim Stanford
#27. Understanding where your food comes from, trying to bolster local farmers and local economies and having a better connection to the food around you and the people around you, only good can come of that. I love to be involved with things like that.
Amos Lee
#28. You do not need to be in the single market we do not need that we are the word's fifth biggest economy. Most economies can agree free trade deals within two years the EU is taking 10 years or never at all, why?
Andrea Leadsom
#29. If history judges society for how it treats those in need, so markets judge economies by the incentives they provide for private investment, the infrastructure that supports growth, and the burdens placed on job creation.
Victor Ponta
#30. capitalism itself is a system and that as the environment that hosts capitalism changes - in particular, as the better part of global economic growth begins to occur outside the mature economies of the West - the capitalist system will evolve.
Christopher Meyer
#31. (Space programs are) a force operating on educational pipelines that stimulate the formation of scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians ... They're the ones that make tomorrow come. The foundations of economies ... issue forth from investments we make in science and technology.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#32. Large companies are not going to disappear. Multinational companies with tens of thousands of employees are not going to disappear. In fact, many of them are getting larger because they can benefit from economies of scale.
Daniel H. Pink
#33. The way the world is going, it's technology driven. And it isn't just driven by the old super powers, it's driven by the far east and new emerging economies.
James Dyson
#34. The invention of the micro-loan was a big surprise to me. Who would have guessed loans of less than $20 made to poor people in undeveloped countries could create thriving local economies? And, even more surprisingly, that they more reliably pay off their debts than the wealthy of the world.
Joel A. Barker
#35. The blatant harassment of electromagnetic radiation researchers should be expected to be a feature of transitioning out of the energy based economies.
Steven Magee
#36. Globalization and the neoliberal economic model have already been rejected in Latin America; it simply hasn't been a solution for our people. At the same time, Latin countries like Venezuela and Argentina are anti-imperialist and anti-globalization, and yet their economies are growing again.
Evo Morales
#37. The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.
James Tobin
#38. Contrary to a popular impression, profits are achieved not by raising prices, but by introducing economies and efficiencies that cut costs of production.
Henry Hazlitt
#39. Between 1995 and 2009, Western Europe's entrepreneurs created jobs faster than the U.S. did, and European economies exported more than the BRIC countries of Brazil, Russia, India and China. Eastern Europe's productivity increased more rapidly than East Asia's.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
#40. On a regular basis, I conduct work in the Amazon, establishing trade for medicinal plants, and working with small communities to improve their economies and to help protect forest acreage.
Chris Kilham
#41. You have to manage money. Particularly with market economies. You may have a great product, but if your bottom line goes bust, then that's it.
Mukesh Ambani
#42. Without the parallel development of systems of monetary - and credit-based exchange there could have been no development of economies beyond the most primitive organizational forms and the most geographically restricted sales.
Peter Dicken
#43. To the extent that hiring in high-wage, developed economies continues to lag, the sustainability of any impetus to private consumption can be drawn into serious question.
Stephen S. Roach
#44. The capitalist system is not delivering those decade-after-decade increases it promised. We're not where we should be in terms of our national economies. We don't know how to get out of this malaise and I think we now have to consider more radical policies.
Adair Turner
#45. The world is a nested space, and so we have our brain as a person, and people are members of teams, and teams are part of business units, and business units are parts of corporations, and corporations are part of industries, which are part of economies.
Clayton Christensen
#46. Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not. Do policy makers have the knowledge and ability to improve macroeconomic outcomes rather than make matters worse? Yes.
Janet Yellen
#47. When both women and men contribute to a country's economic life on an equal basis, they help building stronger societies and stronger economies.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
#48. Since 2010, America has put more people back to work than Europe, Japan, and all advanced economies combined.
Barack Obama
#49. In government-directed economies, the collective takes priority over the individual. The moral ideal is equal results. That approach could not be further removed from the real world.
Paul Ryan
#50. Our real interest starts with our neighbors ... the future is about regional economies.
Jean Charest
#51. I find it disturbing that men who are products of highly developed economies come to a developing nation solely to exploit their women and their children.
Mechai Viravaidya
#52. We've taken the view that if the rest of the world would democratize and create market economies, that would spread the benefits of prosperity around the world, and that it would enhance our own prosperity, and our own stability and security, as well.
Jeffrey Sachs
#53. The leaders of the world's largest economies agreed during the November 2008 G20 summit not to create barriers hindering global trade and capital flows. Russia shares these principles.
Vladimir Putin
#54. The economies in Europe that will prosper, are those that are the greenest and the most energy efficient
David Cameron
#55. To realize the full possibilities of this economy, we must reach beyond our own borders, to shape the revolution that is tearing down barriers and building new networks among nations and individuals, and economies and cultures: globalization. It's the central reality of our time.
William J. Clinton
#56. Internal protectionism in Europe would be deadly, really a disaster for European economies.
Jose Manuel Barroso
#57. The biggest threat to advanced economies is that debt will accumulate until the overhang weighs on growth.
Carmen Reinhart
#58. Authoritarian governments are now trying to ensure that the increasingly free flow of ideas and information through cyberspace fuels their economies without threatening their political power.
Ian Bremmer
#59. The principal linkages between Japan and the U.S. global economies are trade, financial markets, and commodity markets.
Mark Zandi
#60. Economies typically do not function well in hyperinflation. The real value of government debt might disappear, but the economy is likely to disappear with it.
Eugene Fama
#61. I get to shift multiple markets. I get to shift economies. It's extremely liberating. I breathe differently.
Shai Agassi
#62. Tourism is important because it can create sustainable local economies. I'd much rather have 1,000 tourists going up the Tambopata than 1,000 gold miners.
Frans Lanting
#63. If free trade can really turn all these Third World countries into thriving economies full of entrepreneurs and investors, who's gonna clean the fuckin' toilets around here?
George Carlin
#64. It is much harder for economies to prosper if they cannot sell to, buy from, invest with, and even transit their neighbors. Landlocked countries with failed or failing neighbors can lose access to the world economy.
Robert Zoellick
#65. By now, it seems as if everyone has already read Thomas L. Friedman's 'The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century.' It changed the way we think about global business, competitiveness and the implication for far-flung economies, governments, education and more.
Andrew Ross Sorkin
#66. We are three countries that emerged from the former Yugoslavia - countries that are now in transition and must cooperate with each other, because our economies depend on each other.
Stjepan Mesic
#67. As Marx amusingly put it elsewhere, in boom economies everybody acts like a Protestant - they act on pure faith. When the crash comes, though, everyone dives for cover in the "Catholicism" of the monetary base, real gold.
David Harvey
#68. The linear, mechanistic view of the world which pervades orthodox economics is simply not capable of capturing the richness and complexity of the rhythms and fluctuations of developed economies.
Paul Ormerod
#69. World economies are always so tenuous and we are subject to so many losses in life, but a compassionate attitude is something we can always carry with us.
Dalai Lama
#70. I feel like he inherited one of the worst economies than any president has ever, ever inherited. I have met Mr. Obama, President Obama. I supported him in his first campaign, and I feel that he deserves four more years to finish up the job that he started.
Vivica A. Fox
#71. Economies of scale are a good thing. If we didn't have them, we'd still be living in tents and eating buffalo.
Jamie Dimon
#72. Global environmentalists have said and written enough to leave no doubt that their goal is to destroy the prosperous economies of the world's richest nations.
Russell Kirk
#73. In the major state capitalists economies, Europe and the US, it's low growth and stagnation and a very sharp income differentiation a shift - a striking shift - from production to financialization.
Noam Chomsky
#74. Many consumerist economies stay afloat by manipulating the low self-esteem of their consumers and by creating spiritual expectations through material means.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#75. In Asia, a lot of successful economies that had been living on their own saving, decided to open up their financial markets to international capital in the early 1990s. So here were countries doing quite well, but they decided they'd borrow a bit more and do even better.
Jeffrey Sachs
#76. The ideal situation for any state is to experience sharp economic growth while its rivals' economies grow slowly or hardly at all.
John Mearsheimer
#77. Societies advance through innovation every bit as much as economies do.
Geoff Mulgan
#78. Civilization is in fact the longest story of all. Civilization can persist through a series of economies.
Fernand Braudel
#79. If economies collapse and lawlessness rules and resources are scarce, many people who claim with their mouths that they follow Jesus ... will abandon him with their lives.
Brandon Andress
#80. Inappropriate macro economic policies in some economies, characterised by [a] low savings rate and high consumption [and] failure of financial supervision and regulation to keep up with innovation which allowed financial derivatives to spread.
Wen Jiabao
#81. If all women on earth woke up tomorrow feeling truly positive and powerful in their own bodies, the economies of the globe would collapse overnight.
Laurie Penny
#82. What business could be mature when you have economies with more than 2 billion people in India, China and Southeast Asia?
Jack Welch
#83. I believe the quickest and most sure way to reduce poverty, raise living standards and create jobs around the world is to make economies and governments more open and free, thereby encouraging business and entrepreneurship.
Elliott Bisnow
#84. Without the spread of British rule around the world, it is hard to believe that the structures of liberal capitalism would have been so successfully established in so many different economies around the world.
Niall Ferguson
#85. Persuading everyone to behave decently to each other because the society is so fragile is a worthy goal, but it may be more straightforward just to make the societies less fragile, which means developing their economies.
Paul Collier
#86. In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerilla struggle, and this predictability is not there. And it becomes almost impossible to save lives, educate kids, develop economies, whatever.
William J. Clinton
#87. Global stocks bottomed in June 1921, but global economies didn't hit bottom for fully two more years.
Kenneth Fisher
#88. I went back to graduate school with the clear intention that what I wanted to do with my life was to improve societies, and the way to do that was to find out what made economies work the way they did or fail to work.
Douglass North
#89. In my opinion and to the best of my understanding, free-will and pre-determination are two distinctly different economies that are 'operationally co-existent'.
R. Alan Woods
#90. The function of profits, finally, is to put constant and unremitting pressure on the head of every competitive business to introduce further economies and efficiencies, no matter to what stage these may already have been brought.
Henry Hazlitt
#91. You then get into a period a few years ago, where a lot of external factors that we didn't have anything to do with did hit, and some of them at the same time ... devaluations, weak economies, you name it, in various parts of the world.
Jim Cantalupo
#92. We have to remember we're in a global economy. The purpose of fiscal stimulus is not simply to sustain activity in our national economies, but to help the global economy as well, and that's why it's so critical that measures in those packages avoid anything that smacks of protectionism.
Stephen Harper
#93. This week we saw progressive business and faith leaders making strong commitments that are moving ahead of what world leaders promised today. The leaders of major economies must be bolder than they were today in providing a vision for 100% renewable energy for all.
Kumi Naidoo
#94. Centrally planned economies are upended by out of control population. Their escape valve is eugenics.
A.E. Samaan
#95. You have to realize there are other people, other economies, governments, cultures, religions, and destinies going on at the same time as yours. You have to widen the scope of your lens and start seeing more.
Henry Rollins
#96. We also know that China and India, as their economies ramp up, are using more and more energy.
Gale Norton
#97. Economies are complex beasts that need people to do an extraordinary range of tasks.
Geoff Mulgan
#98. We need open, competitive, market economies ... but at the same time with effective regulation and supervision.
Jose Manuel Barroso
#99. Government intervention is not solving the problems, and in fact the governments around the world that are intervening the most in their economies are struggling more.
Oliver DeMille
#100. Imperceptibly, the developed world's manufacturing base was gradually eroding and being replaced by securitized finance that destroyed itself and nearly its economies in 2008.
Bill Gross
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