Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Bernard Shaw

Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?

Bruce Bartlett

The situation today is so different than in the '70s. The laws are different, and people's understanding about economics is different. I don't see any serious move for such controls.

That's funny. I live with Baba. He knows I do economics stuff, financial stuff.

Jan Morris

The language of economics is seldom limpid, but in H Street they usually manage to remove from it the very last flickering colophon of charm.

Jeb Bush

Immigration is as much about the American experience and the values we share, and a lot more about economics than it is about politics.

Economics should always be paramount over tax considerations. Don't let the tax tail wag the investment dog.

Karl Marx

As capital accumulates, the lot of the laborer must grow worse.

Millicent Fenwick

Economics is not a science, in the sense that a policy can be repeatedly applied under similar conditions and will repeatedly produce similar results.

Milton Friedman

Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.

If I can do something with economics or I can be a musician, I think I will be a musician.

Eugene Hutz

Politics don't exist, actually. It's just a cheap business. Economics is what makes politics.

John Maynard Keynes

Economics is a very dangerous science.

John Maynard Keynes

I'd rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The fully planned economy, so far from being unpopular, is warmly regarded by those who know it best.

John Kenneth Galbraith

In economics it is a far, far wiser thing to be right than to be consistent

John Kenneth Galbraith

Economics is not an exact science.

For some fans, this is when they can come out to the games. That's the economics of their situation, and we're not walking way from those fans just because we won the World Series.

Michael Moore

No one is entertained by economics.

Nicolas Chamfort

An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.

Phil Harding

A stable 21st century society requires 21st century solutions not 20th century economics

John Redwood

Conservatism must be based on allowing everyone to become an owner - equity for everyman.

Friedrich List

Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exists between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the one can never develop to its fullest without the other.

The economics work, and they work well, and we're excited about it. The environmental impacts are very positive.

David Andrews

The economics were not as strong as obviously the Robinsons would've liked.

The economics of Washington's strained relations with Venezuela could prove costly.

The economics of filmmaking have not improved over the last few years. Obviously the more revenue streams the merrier. The problem is it doesn't take talent very long to tap into that.

The economics of filmmaking have not improved over the last few years, ... Obviously the more revenue streams the merrier. The problem is it doesn't take talent very long to tap into that.

The economics are turning out substantially better than forecast.

The economics are still all stacked in the spammer's favor,

The economics are extremely compelling. It is good for every reason we can think of.

The economics are evolving in the movie business. Everybody has to recognize that.

Ronald Reagan

I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers: Go ahead, make my day.

Thomas Sowell

Economics is concerned with what emerges, not what anyone intended.