1,194 Quotes About Economy

The Subjectivity of Value: Value is determined by individual buyers and sellers and not by government. There is no product or service which has a fixed or definite value. Because circumstances, scenarios, and objectives vary indefinitely, value also varies indefinitely. Value is subjective in the same way that needs are subjective.

The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.

Making a product is just an activity, making a profit on a product is the achievement.

Independent trekking guides, like Bhadra Shrestha, are vital to Nepal's struggling economy since all of their income goes directly back into the local system, unlike the larger and internationally owned and runned companies.

If you want your fridge freezer and your car, 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 and thank [a major corporation]. [War] is good, good for England, and especially good for the economy. You deride the weapons business, but without it we would be a 10th rate country struggling to maintain a standard of living anywhere anywhere near that of our european neighbors.

If your expenditure brings you poverty, then you may call yourself a poor but the world will call you a fool.

Civility is crucial to all our interactions, from face-to-face to the ever-changing global digital frontier

Since the age of Socrates, social interaction has been continually scrutinized, leading to a constant change in guidelines and rules for social conduct. As a result, societal parameters do exist surrounding how society defines proper behaviors.

As economies change, so do communication skills. From these changes, a need arises for new ways to incorporate a healthy social compass into our lives.