Quotes about economy and economics

"In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries."

Pound, Ezra on economy and economics   

"We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule."

Reagan, Ronald on economy and economics   

"The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."

Reagan, Ronald on economy and economics   

"An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else s."

Rogers, Will on economy and economics   

"But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on economy and economics   

"Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade."

Ruskin, John on economy and economics   

"Profit is the ignition system of our economic engine."

Sawyer, Charles on economy and economics   

"Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation of man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of future generations; as long as you have not shown it to be uneconomic you have not really questioned its right to exist, grow, and prosper."

Schumacher, E. F. on economy and economics   

"Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil."

Schumpeter, Joseph A. on economy and economics   

"Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse."

Seneca on economy and economics
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"If all the economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion."

Shaw, George Bernard on economy and economics
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"Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow the vulgar great, the vainly rich, the miserable proud, the mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings, and with blind feelings reverence the power that grinds them to the dust of misery."

Shelley, Percy Bysshe on economy and economics   

"The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road."

Thurber, James on economy and economics   

"Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, On the one hand on the other."

Truman, Harry S on economy and economics   

"An economist is someone who knows more about money than the people who have it."

Unknown, Source on economy and economics   

"If you took all the economists in the world and laid them end-to-end, they couldn't reach a conclusion"

Unknown, Source on economy and economics   

"The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by."

Wells, H.G. on economy and economics   

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"The term bail-out is deceptive. They have people come up with euphenisms to hide reality "

Dye, James on economy and economics   

"Members of Congress were told they could face martial law if they didn’t pass the bailout bill. This will not be the last time. "

Dye, James on economy and economics