1,161 Quotes About Economics

Economies are supposed to serve human ends.. not the other way round. We forget at our peril that markets make a good servant, a bad master and a worse religion.

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.

There has always been, and there always will be, an economic cycle.

Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.

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

Alaska's gas has been stranded because the economics weren't there to support development, ... But now that's changed.

Stop-Go seemed more sensiblr than using the brake and accelerator at the same time - a practice that later became fashionable.

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.

Human beings are no longer born to their place in life...but are free to employ their faculties and such favorable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may appear to them as desirable.