Economy Quotes
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I think that the agriculture system in general is rooted in racism - consider that historically black labor on plantations was the backbone of the economy. These workers didn't reap the benefit of that system.
Bryant Terry
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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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Bringing undocumented immigrants out from the shadows, putting them into the formal economy will be good, because then employers can't exploit them and undercut Americans' wages.
Hillary Clinton
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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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However, it may occur that we will find ourselves using a variety of fuel sources to give us the energy we need support our lifestyles and boost our economy.
Virgil Goode
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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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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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The pending merger with XM will offer unprecedented choice for consumers and create tremendous value for stockholders.
Mel Karmazin
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The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.
Isabel Paterson
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The crucial role of the rich in a capitalist economy is... to invest; to provide unencumbered and unbureaucratized cash.
George Gilder
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People want economy and they will pay any price to get it.
Lee Iacocca
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The attacks on Sept. 11 really sent a shock wave through our economy, and the full reverberation of that is not yet known.
Elaine Chao
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In a small Swiss city sits an international organization so obscure and secretive... Control of the institution, the Bank for International Settlements, lies with some of the world's most powerful and least visible men: the heads of 32 central banks, officials able to shift billions of dollars and alter the course of economies at the stroke of a pen.
Keith Bradsher
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An economy that adds value through information, ideas, and intelligence-the Three I Economy-offers a way out of the apparent clash between material growth and environmental resources.
Charles Handy
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Mass inflation, welfare line, gross economy, trade it all for what's behind curtain number three.
Joe Walsh The Eagles
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We felt that the employees would take a greater interest in work if they felt they were part of the company.
William Reddington Hewlett
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There is simply no way to sustain an economy based on consumer credit.
Peter Schiff
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Right after 9/11 it looked as if the idea of a huge skyscraper might be considered obsolete. It came back, but I think that's more closely connected to the rise of Asian and Middle Eastern cities in the world economy (Dubai, Shanghai, Taipei, etc.) than anything else.
Paul Goldberger
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The bond market has been zigzagging this year. Every time the Fed acts, and the feeling in the market is that the economy is going to bounce back strongly, it causes pain for bonds because it threatens inflation.
Eric Jacobson
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I can tell you exactly where the economy is going. It's going to China, Honduras, Guatemala, Cambodia, Vietnam, Cipan, and any other place where you can pay people peanuts and have them work like dogs.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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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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I have 236 movies on my queue and I feel like I should always be watching movies. Like if I wake up in the middle of the night and don't fall directly back to sleep, I'm like, 'I've been up for an hour and a half I could have watched 'Toy Story 3' by now.' In this economy it is a sin not to be watching movies when you have Netflix.
Gary Gulman
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And I thought I'd always like some form of business, I didn't know what kind of business I'd go in.
Sanford I. Weill
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Legalized drugs would cause dislocations in the US economy - the prison industry for example and tens of billions spent annually on drug enforcement. But because the US economy is so large, this would be a minor blow, hardly as severe as the ultimate nightmare for the US economy, global peace, which would shutter its death industry commonly called the military/industrial complex.
Charles Bowden