Economy Quotes
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Is this money well spent? This is taxpayer money, it is going to be adding to the deficit short term and if we can't justify it, then we're not going to spend tens or hundreds of billions of dollars, just to make somebody happy, if it's not good for the economy.
Barack Obama
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Taiwan is a major economy.
William C. Kirby
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There are 11 states in the United States that in the last 50 years instituted an income tax. So I looked at each of those 11 states over the last 50 years, and I took their current economic metrics and their metrics for the five years before they put in the progressive income tax... Every single state that introduced a progressive income tax has declined as an overall share of the U.S. economy.
Arthur Laffer
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During the last 35 years, the artists multiplied, the public grew enormously, the economy exploded, and so-called contemporary art became fashionable. All these parameters changed the art world form its previous aspects and fundamentals - the explosion of museums and institutions, explosion of Biennales and Triennials, explosion of money, explosion of interest, explosion of artists, explosion of countries interested in contemporary exhibitions, explosion of the public. Not to see that is to be more than blind.
Daniel Buren
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The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.
William Shenstone
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The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.
Isabel Paterson
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Investors should be cautiously positioned as the global economy and markets face major uncertainties. The downgrade will be a further headwind to growth and job creation in the U.S.
Mohamed El-Erian
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The financial crisis appears to be mostly behind us, and the economy seems to have stabilized and is expanding again.
Ben Bernanke
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It's a market economy. Apparently the demand for great coaches exceeds the supply, so of course the price of good coaches is going to be high.
Michael Gartner
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People in our so-called Rust Belt have lost out, and politics and society have not been responsive either in providing the kind of additional support they need or to retrain them for jobs that are being created in the new economy.
Alan Bersin
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The second is that the role of China trade in Japanese economy, important as it is, has often been exaggerated, as proven by our experience of the past 6 years.
Shigeru Yoshida
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I support freedom and I support a free market economy, but it should be a socially oriented market economy. I support globalization, but it should be globalization with a human face.
Mikhail Gorbachev
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Healthy and nourishing food was the only alpha and omega of rural economy.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I think it's important to look at what we need to do to get the economy going again. That's why I said new jobs with rising incomes, investments, not in more tax cuts that would add $5 trillion to the debt.
Hillary Clinton
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America has always understood this principle of the economy - that everyone can benefit when everyone competes.
Julia Gillard
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We can tell the general public that the gold and foreign currency reserves of the Central Bank are not designed to finance the economy, but rather to ensure foreign trade turnover. Therefore, we need this level to be able to provide the necessary foreign trade turnover for such an economy as Russia's for a period of at least three months.
Vladimir Putin
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One of the reasons why this country undertook military action in Iraq was that there are quite a few problems here, and perhaps attention needed to be deflected from those problems. It sometimes seems that the U.S. economy works successfully only if it gets a stimulus from the defense industry. So perhaps in addition to showing the power and the might of the United States internationally, another reason was to help the defense industry and to help the U.S. economy recover.
Mikhail Gorbachev
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I am tough. Sometimes I'm unreasonable. I have to catch myself every once in a while.
George Steinbrenner
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The pending merger with XM will offer unprecedented choice for consumers and create tremendous value for stockholders.
Mel Karmazin
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It's a measure of the depth of our consumer trance that the death of the planet is not sufficient to break it.
Kalle Lasn
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If the stock market does go through a crisis of confidence, which I think clearly will happen one of these days, no one can predict just like you couldn't the dot com crash or the Lehman crash, but when it goes down it will go down by thousands of points because everyone will panic. No one owns this market today because they believe there's a huge sunny future for the United States economy. They're buying because they think the Fed can keep the thing pumped up, the bubble expanding.
David Stockman
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Although investors have been concerned with China's slowing growth rate, China remains one of the largest and fastest-growing economies in the world.
Mark Mobius
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What does cookery mean? It means the knowledge of Medea and of Circe, and of Calypso, and Sheba. It means knowledge of all herbs, and fruits, and balms and spices... It means the economy of your great-grandmother and the science of modern chemistry, and French art, and Arabian hospitality. It means, in fine, that you are to see imperatively that everyone has something nice to eat.
John Ruskin
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What we experience in dreams - assuming that we experience it often - belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of our soul as anything experienced "actually": we are richer or poorer on account of it.
Friedrich Nietzsche