Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lawrence Summers

There can be no successful economic development without economic growth, ... There have never been greater technological opportunities to promote convergence than there are today.

The recovery has been fueled by lower rates, and people have been so focused on that, they're losing sight of the fact that, in a normal recovery period, interest rates should be going higher. The economy still looks strong, and that's the key.

We will put in place a fair and just market mechanism for the exploration of resources. We will straighten out all kinds of economic regulation in the field of exploration of mineral resources. We will open up more to the outside and protect the legitimate rights and interests of foreigners who invest in mineral resources.

We've got a lot of economic news between now and the next Fed meeting in May. The path of least resistance is higher, but there's a bumpy road.

Those tribes were two of the largest in the state. Given their unique economic needs, those were the terms of the compact.

When I started out we used to flood this whole plain. We're gonna reach the point where it will no longer be economical to pump water. We may already be there today.

We expect that the economy in 2006 will look very much like 2005.

We expect that manufacturing will maintain a 6 percent rate of growth in 2004 and actually grow faster than the overall economy for the first time in four years.

We expect housing to start slowing the economy this quarter or the next.

We feel pretty optimistic about the second half of the year and where the economy is heading. And this June sales report kicks off a good summer for Ford in several key areas.

We do see all these things working together. And we do see (the waterfront property) as an economic catalyst.

You have to put a question mark around just how long the global economy can live at $60 a barrel.

Sue Kelly

Farming in our rural communities is not just an economic industry, but a way of life.

There's uncertainty with the impact of higher interest rates as to whether it will slow the economy down, and I feel that it won't, and thus we'll have even higher interest rates.

The result of Nkrumah's handling of the economy was calamitous. Ghana by 1965 had become virtually bankrupt.

The result of Nkrumah's handling of the economy was calamitous, ... Ghana by 1965 had become virtually bankrupt.

The result is there are economies which remain vulnerable to event risk, to a more challenging global environment, or to populism.

There's quite a healthy outlook for the economy and inflationary pressures are fairly subdued. I can't see why they need to do anything. They'll keep the policy statement unchanged.

There's quite a gap between husbands' and wives' reports of their financial status. These differences may have significant impacts on everything from a couple's relationship to national reports of economic statistics.

The revised statistics show that China's economic structure is more reasonable and healthy than the previous figures showed.

There's still significant economies of scale to be had. It's going to help to buoy the price of many utility shares because there will be a natural wave of speculation as to who will be next.

There's so much liquidity in the economy right now that, left alone, it could become fuel for inflation, ... I can see the Fed taking preventive measures to ensure inflation doesn't become a problem.

Peter Greene

There's some worry that the economic growth won't be as strong as had been hoped and that's taking stocks lower, ... It's the combination of GDP not growing as fast as had been hoped, and the Dow Transports, which is a leading economic indicator, falling as well.

There's a feeling that enough has been done to slow the economy down and the next phase must be up, that growth will start to pick up again.

The resilience of Western economies to recent oil shocks has been remarkable.

There's no economic puzzle here. Where there's money to be made, there will be people out to make it. Where some gamers are playing for fun, others are pursuing a new kind of day-trading game and those two factions are trying to co-exist.

There's no economic news out Friday or Monday, and the economic news the rest of next week is not hugely influential,

There's no economic motive. The point is to capture, and share, fantastic, fleeting moments.

There's no way any new government will want to push through privatization. Whatever the end game looks like, the paralysis in terms of economic policies is still a threat.

There's not much reason to be optimistic about the U.K. economy for now. As rate-cut speculation increases, the pound will come under more pressure.

There's nothing wrong with the economy right now. That's not the issue,

the transition of North Carolina's economy from textiles and tobacco to tourism and technology.

James Heckman

The traditional story of economists has been to say education explains what the returns are to school. I say, 'Okay, that's fine, but what explains the education? How much is just a matter of my giving you a poor kid versus a rich kid?'