Quotes About Economy

#1. The government can't create jobs; they'll destroy jobs trying to do it. The government doesn't have any money; all they have is a printing press. We need to free markets to create jobs; if the government wants to help, they should reduce their burden on the economy.

Peter Schiff

#2. To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.

Confucius

#3. How is the economy supposed to recover when people can't afford to fill the tank?

Jay Kay

#4. Being surrounded by educated people makes democracy stronger, and it benefits our entire economy.

Seth Godin

#5. This practically unlimited supply of advertisers in a fluid marketplace appears to be a new economic model that may insulate Google from some of the dynamics of an economy built on mass and scarcity. Google has its own economy.

Jeff Jarvis

#6. The model of the U.S. economy is that we are the country that does new things.

Peter Thiel

#7. There's plenty of juice to keep this economy going.

Steve Forbes

#8. One of the professors told me last week that he feels bad teaching with the way the economy is now. 'What's the point?' he said. 'Kids aren't getting jobs.' You never hear faculty talk that way. He did.

Daniel Amory

#9. The stock market is almost magical because it always leads the economy. It goes down long before the economy drops and then heads higher long before the economy rebounds. It always has.

Kenneth L. Fisher

#10. I've lived through periods of illiquidity before. Asset prices come down. The economy slows or even goes into recession. Then the cycle re-starts. We buy at lower prices with less leverage.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

#11. Economic recession?" "Well, you see, five million years ago the Galactic economy collapsed, and seeing that custom-built planets are something of a luxury commodity, you see ...

Douglas Adams

#12. I believe that we must understand the economy of the situation.

Minoru Yamasaki

#13. People talk about "job creation," as if that had ever been the aim the industrial economy. The aim was to replace people with machines.

Wendell Berry

#14. A respect for the rights of other peoples to determine their forms of government and their economy will not weaken our democracy. It will inevitably strengthen it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#15. 2005 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve.

Baldwin Spencer

#16. The 2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession that followed have had devastating effects on the U.S. economy and millions of American lives. But the U.S. economy will emerge from its trauma stronger and widely restructured.

Roger Altman

#17. The Russians could have some (warheads) aimed at Japan, so if we act up they can destroy our economy.

P. J. O'Rourke

#18. As anyone who lived through the 1990s knows, nothing shrinks our deficits faster than a growing economy.

Denis McDonough

#19. In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.

David Horowitz

#20. Many Europeans, while admiring the strength and power of the American economy, undoubtedly feel that the system of social values which prevails in the United States, manifested in the acute problems evident in the inner cities and the level of violent crime, for example, leaves much to be desired.

Paul Ormerod

#21. The opinions that the price of commodities depends solely on the proportion of supply and demand, or demand to supply, has become almost an axiom in political economy, and has been the source of much error in that science.

David Ricardo

#22. Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene.

Wendy Kopp

#23. In the long run, the best way to reduce inequalities with respect to labor as well as to increase the average productivity of the labor force and the overall growth of the economy is surely to invest in education.

Thomas Piketty

#24. Ultimately, the law will collapse under its own weight. Until then, we have to start building a better health care system in its place. And we need to start with a new principle: Put the patient in the driver's seat. That's how we can build a healthy economy.

Paul Ryan

#25. I do think there will be winners and losers in the 21st century economy.

David Plotz

#26. In today's economy there are no experts, no 'best and brightest' with all the answers. It's up to each one of us. The only way to screw up is to not try anything.

Tom Peters

#27. PepsiCo is the largest food-and-beverage company in the United States, and the second-largest in the world after Nestle. If PepsiCo were a country, the size of its economy - sixty billion dollars in revenues in 2010 - would put it sixty-sixth in gross national product, between Ecuador and Croatia.

John Seabrook

#28. The more flexible an economy, the greater its ability to self-correct in response to inevitable, often unanticipated, disturbances and thus to contain the size and consequences of cyclical imbalances.

Alan Greenspan

#29. The reality is that our economy now consists of driving 250 million vehicles around the suburbs and malls and eating fried chicken. We don't manufacture much. We just burn up ever scarcer petroleum in the ever-expanding suburbs built with mortgage money lent to people who haven't a clue.

Joe Bageant

#30. Now the truth is, a president really can't control the economy, although his policies do have some effect on it.

Paul Weyrich

#31. Money is important only when you don't have it, recession bites only the poor, and only the rich nations worry about the economy.'

My No.7th book is coming.....

Tim I. Gurung

#32. Good debt growth is when you borrow money, and it goes into the real economy. You do capital spending. You build businesses.

Stanley Druckenmiller

#33. Geographically, the global economy is now multi-polar , as new centres of production have emerged in parts of what had been, historically, the periphery of the world economy. The world is now more accurately described as a 'mosaic of unevenness in a continual state of flux'.

Peter Dicken

#34. We're going to create factory jobs for recent immigrants, and Donald Trump is going to take care of them. That's why his numbers, even right now, in this negative period, are holding pretty strong, because people want a leader that's going to make this country great again and have a strong economy.

Jeff Sessions

#35. And with the lower docking fees, Eros Station found other ways to soak money from its visitors: Casinos. Brothels. Shooting galleries. Vice in all its commercial forms found a home in Eros, its local economy blooming like a fungus fed by the desires of Belters.

James S.A. Corey

#36. When making choices, or setting policies about the economy, education or medicine, society is best served by electing people who are particularly hardworking, intelligent and interested in long-term thinking.

Bill Gates

#37. To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty on people for having worked harder and saved more than their neighbors.

John Stuart Mill

#38. I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.

Andrew Johnson

#39. But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world.

Peter L. Berger

#40. Healthy and nourishing food was the only alpha and omega of rural economy.

Mahatma Gandhi

#41. There is an economy in Heaven. There are cities in Heaven, and there are people who lead and people who don't lead, people who are rewarded and people who are not rewarded.

Bruce Wilkinson

#42. When we put $4 billion into the U.S. economy, they were OK with this. When we preserved jobs in Dearborn, or preserved jobs in Columbus, or preserved jobs in Pennsylvania, everyone was happy.

Alexei Mordashov

#43. By restraining spending and by cutting the deficit, Republican policies are helping to keep our economy strong.

Dennis Hastert

#44. If you want your fridge-freezer and your car and a nice house and asphalt on the roads and a health service, then thank the weapons business. Thank the war economy that drives us to this.

Jasper Fforde

#45. There is no resting place for an enterprise in a competitive economy.

Alfred P. Sloan

#46. An economy is a "noosphere" (a mind-based system), and it can revive as quickly as minds and policies can change.

George Gilder

#47. In Poland we still believe - and this certainly applies to my government - that greater competitiveness, and greater growth and savings are possible in an economy which is as sparely regulated as possible, where freedom, competition and private ownership are key values.

Donald Tusk

#48. A historic investment in jobs, debt-free college, profit sharing, making those at the top pay their fair share, putting families first in a modern economy and a democracy where working people's voices are actually heard. That is what we are fighting for in this election.

Hillary Clinton

#49. Be aware that the economy is not meant to control us ... we are meant to control the economy.

Bob Proctor

#50. Direct costs per student, compared with an economy-wide cost index

William G. Bowen

#51. The bigger the world economy, the more powerful its smallest player.

John Naisbitt

#52. When our markets work, people throughout our economy benefit - Americans seeking to buy a car or buy a home, families borrowing to pay for college, innovators borrowing on the strength of a good idea for a new product or technology, and businesses financing investments that create new jobs.

Henry Paulson

#53. There cannot exist in the future an economy which is still mercantile but which isn't capitalist anymore. Before capitalism there were economies which were partially mercantile, but capitalism is the last of this genre.

Amadeo Bordiga

#54. A rigid economy of the public contributions and absolute interdiction of all useless expenses will go far towards keeping the government honest and unoppressive.

Thomas Jefferson

#55. Ignore the stock market, ignore the economy, and buy a business you understand.

Warren Buffett

#56. Some people think that as the Chinese economy becomes more and more capitalistic it will inevitably become more democratic.

Peter L. Berger

#57. Let's make sure that there is certainty during uncertain times in our economy.

George W. Bush

#58. I should focus on other important issues like people's livelihoods and the economy.

Donald Tsang

#59. In the heart of the Great Depression, millions of American workers did something they'd never done before: they joined a union. Emboldened by the passage of the Wagner Act, which made collective bargaining easier, unions organized industries across the country, remaking the economy.

James Surowiecki

#60. Salespeople move an economy of a nation. Someone could have invented the most amazing invention that is going to be a revolution for a planet, but that product goes nowhere unless someone sells it to someone else.

Michael Delaware

#61. The world economy, the world environment, the world AIDS crisis, the world arms race: they affect us all.

William J. Clinton

#62. Her father said it took at least five years to learn law after one left law school: one practiced economy for two years, learned Alabama Pleading for two more, reread the Bible and Shakespeare for the fifth.

Harper Lee

#63. Climate change poses a direct threat to the infrastructure of America that we need to stay competitive in this 21st-century economy.

Barack Obama

#64. If you don't have a functioning financial system the world economy won't be revived. All the major economies have their responsibility to assist at a pace which is required to clean up the balance sheet of the banking system and to ensure that credit flows are resumed.

Manmohan Singh

#65. Even more fundamental than housing to the global financial economy is the idea that the U.S. government is a safe asset.

Ezra Klein

#66. The fact is that the economy is really posed for the kind of recovery that people can see and understand.

Al D'Amato

#67. With unemployment still abysmally high, the Obama economy is crushing Hispanics' dreams for their children to live a better life.

Marco Rubio

#68. The American economy has been built and sustained by risk-taking entrepreneurs whose pioneering ideas and hard work gave birth to flourishing businesses.

Mike Pence

#69. I work with the macro economy, which involves the major variables that measure the health of the whole economy, such as total consumption, investment, income, employment, and inflation.

Clive Granger

#70. Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country - including our economy, government, media, and environment.

Jim Hightower

#71. It's arguable that Ayn Rand's finest achievement was crashing the economy twenty-five years after her death.

Jarett Kobek

#72. Every proposal I'm making, every idea I'm advancing has a single, central purpose: to revive a failing economy and give working Americans the help and security they need.

Dick Gephardt

#73. Our economy today depends upon women in the labor force. One out of three workers is a woman. Today, there are almost 25 million women employed, and their number is rising faster than the number of men in the labor force.

John F. Kennedy

#74. Things that have never happened before are bound to occur with some regularity. You must always be prepared for the unexpected, including sudden, sharp downward swings in markets and the economy. Whatever adverse scenario you can contemplate, reality can be far worse.

Seth Klarman

#75. Gay marriage is a complete red herring to distract everyone from the economy and the war and health care and education.

David O. Russell

#76. An economy oriented toward production for market exchange provides the optimal conditions for long-lasting and ever-expanding productive capacity based on modern technology.

Peter L. Berger

#77. In the knowledge economy everyone is a volunteer, but we have trained our managers to manage conscripts.

Peter Drucker

#78. It's cheaper to put an entire microprocessor in your car key, microwave, or cell phone than it is to put in discrete chips and electronic components. Thus, a new technical economy drives the design of the product.

Alan Cooper

#79. The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our gross domestic product, but on the reach of our prosperity; on the ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart - not out of charity, but because it is the surest route to our common good.

Barack Obama

#80. You don't grow the economy by growing government.

Robert Metcalfe

#81. Restoration of friendship with Russia, our biggest neighbor, is necessary for our peace and economy.

Bidzina Ivanishvili

#82. You work hard for your income, and that hard work is what fuels the economy.

Emily Oster

#83. In a sluggish economy, never, ever f*** with another man's livelihood.

Joe Pantoliano

#84. The risk that the economy has entered a substantial downturn appears to have diminished over the past month or so.

Ben Bernanke

#85. Leaders of institutions everywhere have lost trust. The global economy is stalled and the world is deeply divided, too unequal, unstable and unsustainable.

Don Tapscott

#86. Education, doing homework, is the way to lift up girls. Around the world, where girls are educated, the economy and the standard of living rise.

Karen DeCrow

#87. American poetry has been part of a culture in conflict ... We are a people tending toward democracy at the level of hope; at another level, the economy of the nation, the empire of business within the republic, both include in their basic premise the idea of perpetual warfare

Muriel Rukeyser

#88. If you put this in the context of Detroit in '64 or '65, the economy was booming. Everybody had jobs and there was a whole nightclub culture where bands could work.

Wayne Kramer

#89. This unchecked spending is growing faster than our economy, faster than inflation, and far beyond our means to sustain it.

Jim Nussle

#90. The U.S. is facing a structural competitiveness problem that is leading to the weakest economy we have seen in generations.

Michael Porter

#91. As the U.S. did during the Space Race, we must invest in our businesses and intellect to ensure America leads the clean energy economy of the future. As we all know, the best way to reduce our deficit and bring down our debt is by putting Americans back to work.

Paul Tonko

#92. Our economy is on the move and we are creating thousands of new jobs, but we need to keep our foot on the gas pedal.

Mitt Romney

#93. We are out of the ditch, we're standing, we're walking, but we're not running. I want to grow the economy.

Hillary Clinton

#94. It probably wouldn't be good for our economy for a bunch of these jobs to come back because, there's no way that people could be getting paid a living wage on some of these jobs - at least in order to be competitive in an international setting.

Barack Obama

#95. When each of us is free to work out his own economic destiny, within the framework of the market economy, the institution of private property, and the general rule of law, we will all improve our economic condition much faster than when we are ordered around by bureaucrats.

Henry Hazlitt

#96. In the digital economy, everything is archived, catalogued, readily available, and yet nothing really endures.

Masha Tupitsyn

#97. I've been a job creator. I've worked in the economy myself.

Jeff Greene

#98. The economy is a ponzi scheme. People are working harder than they ever have for less wages, but we have so many bobbles because manufacturing has come up so quickly over the past hundred years that people have the illusion of wealth.

Alex Jones

#99. Filipino businessmen must have the ability to compete freely in the global economy.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

#100. The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of society and creates equal opportunity.

Benjamin Netanyahu