1,161 Quotes About Economics

Encouraging consumers to think more seriously about the financial, environmental, and personal costs of their consumption would be a major step in addressing the crisis of quality and the environmental and social impacts of too much stuff. Better yet, it would spur businesses to seek economic incentives to design and market better products. Today's secondhand economy, faltering in search of quality, should have more than it can handle.

There are a lot of things we all know that don't want to face. I hope you already know that. It will save you a lot of grief if you are aware and expect to discover it about yourself.

That being said, it may be that opponents of bailouts are not worried about public officials' behavior at all. Perhaps the strategic behavior that we are trying to avoid is on the lender's side, not on the government's. A standard objection to bailouts is that investors anticipating a bailout will be too aggressive in extending credit. They too have a potential moral hazard that needs to be remedied.

Ethics without economy leads to physical starvation and economy without ethics leads to mental starvation. It’s only with a healthy combination of both can the human society live and progress with health, sanity and serenity.

The conditional programs inherently use poverty as a threat. That's Cruel. Shouldn't we be ashamed of ourselves?

Why not give ME 50 billion dollars. I can go build a car plant and make cars. I can go employ people. Give me 50 billion dollars. You gotta go give it to people who already proved that they're failures?

E tanto a Grã-Bretanha quando o mundo sabiam que a revolução lançada nestas ilhas não só pelos comerciantes e empresários como através deles, cuja única lei era comprar no mercado mais barato e vender sem restrição no mais caro estava transformando o mundo. Nada poderia detê-la. Os deuses e os reis do passado eram impotentes diante dos homens de negócios e das máquinas a vapor do presente.

Give yourself a great self-respect to know who you are then your confidence will shine on you

If a nation is not able to monetize its assets, then it’ll have to beg for money from the developed parts of the world.