Quotes and Sayings About Economy
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Economy forced me to become a vegetarian, but I finally starting liking it.
-- Abdul Kalam -
On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.
-- Adam Smith -
It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.
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I don't know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we've been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.
-- Alan Greenspan -
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In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial markets could signal or precipitate an excessive softening in household and business spending.
-- Alan Greenspan -
History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
-- Alan Greenspan -
And still the time, especially in the economy, is very tough, very difficult. It's necessary to be active still, to work, to fight, to make our economy more competitive.
-- Aleksander KwasniewskiSource : "Emerging Ally: President of Poland, Aleksander Kwasniewski". "PBS NewsHour" with Ray Suarez, www.pbs.org. July 18, 2002.
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There is no resting place for an enterprise in a competitive economy.
-- Alfred P. SloanSource : Alfred P Sloan (2015). “My Years With General Motors”, p.15, eNet Press
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The finance enchains with golden bonds states and peoples, the economy becomes nomadic, the life uprooted.
-- Alfred Rosenberg -
The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death.
-- Alistair DarlingSource : "The cure is working" by Alistair Darling, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2009.
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There cannot exist in the future an economy which is still mercantile but which isn't capitalist anymore. Before capitalism there were economies which were partially mercantile, but capitalism is the last of this genre.
-- Amadeo Bordiga -
Human development, as an approach, is concerned with what I take to be the basic development idea: namely, advancing the richness of human life, rather than the richness of the economy in which human beings live, which is only a part of it.
-- Amartya Sen -
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A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
Killing the private property-that was the center of the Marxist economy and Marxist ideology. That was the center of the Lenin ideology.
-- Anatoly Chubais -
Basic services such as electricity have never been worse and the economy of Arab Iraq is in ruins.
-- Andrew GilliganSource : "Little chance country's nightmare will end soon". www.standard.co.uk. February 14, 2005.
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I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.
-- Andrew Johnson -
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The failure of Lehman may have allowed the government to do more to prop up the economy than it otherwise could.
-- Andrew Ross Sorkin -
Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.
-- Anthony EdenSource : 1956 In the Observer, 17 Jun.
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Economy is going without something you do want in case you should, some day, want something you probably won't want.
-- Anthony HopeSource : 'The Dolly Dialogues' (1894) no. 12
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The trustworthiness of servants is the basis of the entire Indian economy.
-- Aravind AdigaSource : Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger”, p.105, Atlantic Books Ltd
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I have no friends and no enemies - only competitors.
-- Aristotle Onassis -
Economy is a way of spending money without getting any pleasure out of it.
-- Armand Salacrou -
With the rise of America, the global balance of power shifted away from the old European powers.
-- Armstrong Williams -
The income effects in an economy always sum to zero.
-- Arthur Laffer -
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With the shrinking of the US economy, and it's shrinking very rapidly, you not only have more money, but you also have fewer goods. That's a classic double-whammy on inflation.
-- Arthur LafferSource : "Economic Debate: Laffer vs. Liesman". "The Kudlow Report" with Larry Kudlow, www.cnbc.com. February 26, 2009.
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It has always amazed me how tax cuts don't work until they take effect. Mr. Obama's experience with deferred tax rate increases will be the reverse. The economy will collapse in 2011.
-- Arthur Laffer -
Employ every economy consistent with thoroughness, accuracy and reliability.
-- Arthur Nielsen -
I am opposed to all forms of control. I am for an absolute, laissez-faire, free, unregulated economy.
-- Ayn Rand -
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We've got a lot of work to do economically in this country to bring about a more just and fair economy.
-- Barack Obama -
The financial crisis appears to be mostly behind us, and the economy seems to have stabilized and is expanding again.
-- Ben Bernanke