Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Attenborough

I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage.

Alice Rivlin

The federal budget deficit is the biggest single impediment to revitalizing the American economy.

Andrew Johnson

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.

Alvin Toffler

You cannot get a new economy without a new society.

The problem is people don't live on economic statistics.

We have a trillion-dollar economy that is teetering on top of this fragile levee system. Shame on us if we can't act.

We have not seen the global economy improve and we're not expecting it to in the (fiscal) first quarter or maybe the 2Q as well,

Victor Ponta

I see four principles as laying the foundations for the kind of economic recovery Europe needs: fairness, efficiency, solidarity and growth.

The predictability of the economy and prospects for growth coupled with high external liquidity is pushing the market up.

The problem with hybrids is that in economic terms, they don't make a lot of sense.

The problem is you've got to take something out to put in a new kind of fuel. If we were looking at this purely in economic terms, we wouldn't even be looking at it.

Weakness in the composite index suggests that economic growth will slow over the next three to six months.

We are interested in purchasing nuclear power reactors because our economy is growing and so is the energy requirement.

Those jobs look fairly good going into 2006. We won't see a lot of hiring there, but the economy looks strong enough to maintain level of employment we have.

Unfortunately, political freedoms have lagged the economic freedoms.

You learn about economics and mass produce little things to make a profit.

Thomas Sowell

Economics is concerned with what emerges, not what anyone intended.

Tony Blair

Education is the best economic policy there is.

Simone de Beauvoir

A Darwinian nation of economic fitness abhors idleness, dependence, non-productivity.

Tim Harford

Failure is inevitable; it happens all the time in a complex economy.

Robert A. Heinlein

You were probably educated in the conventional economic theories of your period which were magnificent and most ingenious, but--if you will pardon my saying so--all wrong.

Rudolf Hilferding

The publication of the third volume of Capital has made hardly any impression upon bourgeois economic science.

Thomas Carlyle

Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.

Stephen Harper

We got into a recession because the global economy went into the recession and we're a big exporting nation.

Stephen Harper

As I constantly remind Canadians, there isnt really a Canadian economy anymore. It is a global economy.

Susan George

If the economy becomes disembodied from society it can only lead to disaster.

Tim Ferriss

Companies that start by redesigning the economics of an industry often finish by redesigning the whole industry-and owning it.

Stephen Covey

Trust is central to an economy that works.

Stephen King

I can't see the future, but it's grim. The depletion of resources - we're living in this dine-and-dash economy.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

I've lived through periods of illiquidity before. Asset prices come down. The economy slows or even goes into recession. Then the cycle re-starts. We buy at lower prices with less leverage.

Sophie Swetchine

Where there is a question of economy, I prefer privation.

Stephen Elop

Our competitors aren’t taking our market share with devices; they are taking our market share with an entire ecosystem.

Michael Moore

No one is entertained by economics.