Economic Quotes
  
  
  
	
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		I don't think I have any regrets, but I can tell you what I learned from mistakes or failures. I've had plenty of those. I just don't believe in regret, and my economic world is not what I would ever have imagined; I'm financially free.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Anthony Robbins
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		[Socialistic] economic planning, regulation, and intervention pave the way to totalitarianism by building a power structure that will inevitably be seized by the most power-hungry and unscrupulous.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Friedrich August von Hayek
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth's treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Vivienne Westwood
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Today's numbers are not good news, and I think it's a clear reflection that the attacks of Sept. 11 are still reverberating around our economy. I think it's really important that the U.S. Senate begin to act on the president's economic security package.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Elaine Chao
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		A tip for generalists who try to read economic research papers: If you get to a section that's incomprehensible, don't give up. Just skip to the next section.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				David Leonhardt
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		In promoting Sino-Swiss economic ties, transnational companies, such as Nestle,played an active role.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Wu Bangguo
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		In a society of little economic development, universal inactivity accompanies universal poverty. You survive not by struggling against nature, or by increasing production, or by relentless labor; instead you survive by expending as little energy as possible, by striving constantly to achieve a state of immobility.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ryszard Kapuscinski
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		If we have major geographic areas within our continent that have a tremendous lack of economic opportunity, we found that that is going to produce instability economic, political and social.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				William Weld
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		We libertarians are not the spokesmen for any ethnic or economic class; we are the spokesmen for all classes, for all of the public; we strive to see all of these groups united, hand-in-hand, in opposition to the plundering and privileged minority that constitutes the rulers of the State.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Murray Rothbard
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Whether one is a conservative or a radical, a protectionist or a free trader, a cosmopolitan or a nationalist, a churchman or a heathen, it is useful to know the causes and consequences of economic phenomena.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				George Stigler
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The economic dependence of woman and her apparently indestructible illusion that marriage will release her from loneliness and work and worry are potent factors in immunizing her from common sense in dealing with men at work.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Mary Barnett Gilson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The greater concerns in China and Taiwan are on the political side, not on the economic side.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				William C. Kirby
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		Now that I'm a civilian again, I can once more comment on economic and financial issues without my words being put under the microscope by Fed watchers.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ben Bernanke
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		There are a number of steps that we can take to reinvigorate and rebuild the economic and the physical infrastructure of our country and then to rebuild us, frankly, on a spiritual level.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Carol Moseley Braun
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		You know there are very few Marxists left in the world... they're all in American universities.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Milton Friedman
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When people listen to people like me, those of us who have a platform, we have to say things that speak truth. We have to empower, inspire, build, and launch the next generation of world solutions that will positively contribute to our economic, political and social fabric and - hopefully - improve the entire nation and the world.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Farrah Gray
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Over the last 10 years, India's perception has gone from being a beggar country to an economic superpower.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Vivek Wadhwa
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'm sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased in times of economic difficulty. As a matter of fact, a black man was lynched last year.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ishmael Reed