Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sylvia Porter

One of the soundest rules I try to remember when making forecasts in the field of economics is that whatever is to happen is happening already

Timothy Noah

Sometime, while I wasn't paying attention, trickle-down economics got respectable.

Clive Granger

I think it is true to say that I am not the first Nobel Prize winner in economics to have little formal training in economics.

Dannel Malloy

You know and I know and economists know that trickle-down economics doesn't work.

Andrew Shields

You learn about economics and mass produce little things to make a profit.

Alan Greenspan

Whatever you tax you get less of.

Benjamin Disraeli

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

Menachem Begin

His work is important and a major contribution to the world of economics and to theory,

George Shinn

But we've got to remember the economics have to be there to support it,

Paul Brewbaker

Lucky for everybody because it says something about our underlying economy.

Kurt Barrow

Since mid-2004, the government refinery-gate reference price has diverged from import parity economics. The gap has been rising ever since.

Jean-Cyril Spinetta

The pilots are responsible, realistic, qualified people, who know the (state of the) economy,

Brian Hickey

We're still a force. It is a meaningful contributor to the United States' economy.

Robert Brusca

We're getting sort-of mixed results with what is happening in the economy.

Donald Selkin

I think the Fed meant to say something reassuring about the economy, but the result was very confusing.

Dennis Hastert

It is something that will help the economy.

Chris Ahearn

Historically we have seen strong home improvement spending in the wake of a slow economy. The stock market has been less secure in the last 18 months or so than it had previously been. So instead of the stock market, people were investing in their homes.

Manmohan Singh

Positioned as we are, geographically and economically, India has a pivotal role in the region,

Gordon Haff

Obviously, they have to sell lots of systems of this size to pay back what has to be a considerably larger R&D investment than they have even with Galaxy.

Jeffrey Benjamin

The only lasting investment is an investment in yourself.

Bill Jr

We made an investment that hasn't realized a return yet.

Mahbubur Rahman

Since independence, Japan has been Bangladesh's largest development partner, but private investment from Japan remained at low level in that sense.

Nathaniel Smith

I'd like see the the party give strong arguments for more investment in post-secondary education. What's a better place to do it than in Halifax, where there are so many students?

Assemblywoman Garcia

We need investment in transportation and investment in people.

David Dreman

Patience is a crucial but rare investment commodity.

Christopher Hayes

Women's skills and abilities are no different from men's but they put a tremendous pressure on themselves to make perfect investment decisions.

Daymond John

I consider each business investment based on concept and revenue.

Kelly McGillis

Tom and I didn't have a problem with the height differential but Paramount did, so we tried to hide it.

Daddy Yankee

I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.

Charles Caleb Colton

The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.

Buffalo Bill

I found Spotted Tail's lodge. He invited me to enter.

Beatrix Potter

This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.

Billy Joel

I work with musicians whose opinions I respect and if they don't like something they don't hold back. They'll say, 'That really sucks' and 'You've lost it' and 'You're no good anymore.' And I crawl away with my tail between my legs and I fear that kind of ridicule, but I want them to like the music I'm bringing to them.

Ally Carter

First time it's a stranger. Second time its just a coincidence. Third time it's a tail

Albert Einstein

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. On being reproached that his formula of gravitation was longer and more cumbersome than Newton's.

Christopher Paolini

Go slowly, so that you do not bite your tail by accident.

Peter Brimelow

I think the Iraq War is not particularly tailored to American interests.

Deb Kottel

You do not need to be a tax expert. In fact, you can be a tax idiot.

Lysander Spooner

Who are ever taxed? Individuals only. Who have property that can be taxed? Individuals only. Who can give their consent to be taxed? Individuals only. Who are ever taxed without their consent? Individuals only. Who, then, are robbed, if taxed without their consent? Individuals only.

David R. Ellis

No, in Lethal Weapon I was a taxi cab driver that Mel jumps in front of the taxi and pulls me out of the car and steals the taxi. Then I did some other indie driving for some of the car sequences.

Calvin Trillin

The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.

Jason Chaffetz

You dont raise taxes in times of such uncertainty.

Charles Adams

We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones.

Adam Smith

Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are therefore extremely proper subjects of taxation.

Ambrose Bierce

Houseless: Having paid all taxes on household goods.

Dick Spring

We are looking for a Wealth Tax that will bring in sufficient revenue to justify having a wealth tax.