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Government's view of the economy
could be summed up in a few short
phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps
moving, regulate it. And if it stops
moving, subsidise it
Ronald Reagan
An economist is a man who
states the obvious in terms
of the incomprehensible.
Alfred A. Knopf
Did you ever think that making a
speech on economics is a lot like
pissing down your leg? It seems
hot to you, but it never does
to anyone else.
Lyndon B. Johnson
If all economists were laid
end to end, they would not
reach a conclusion.
George Bernard Shaw
True individual freedom cannot exist
without economic security and
independence. People who are hungry
and out of a job are the stuff of
which dictatorships are made.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Isn't it interesting that the same
people who laugh at science
fiction listen to weather forecasts
and economists?
Kelvin Throop III
The first lesson of economics is scarcity:
There is never enough of anything to satisfy
all those who want it. The first lesson of
politics is to disregard the first
lesson of economics.
Thomas Sowell
An economist is an expert who will
know tomorrow why the things he
predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
Laurence J. Peter
An economy hampered by restrictive tax
rates will never produce enough revenue
to balance our budget, just as it will never
produce enough jobs or enough profits
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
In all recorded history there has not
been one economist who has had
to worry about where the next meal
would come from.
Peter Drucker
I, however, place economy among the
first and most important republican
virtues, and public debt as the greatest
of the dangers to be feared.
Thomas Jefferson
An economist's guess is liable to be
as good as anybody else's.
Will Rogers
Five years ago, we thought
of the Web as a new medium,
not a new economy.
Clement Mok
The meaning of economic freedom is
this: that the individual is in a position
to choose the way in which he wants
to integrate himself into the totality
of society.
Ludwig Von Mises
Economics is extremely
useful as a form of employment
for economists.
John Kenneth Galbraith
He who controls the
money supply of a nation
controls the nation.
President James Garfield
The gap in our economy is between
what we have and what we think we
ought to have - and that is a moral
problem, not an economic one.
Paul Heyne
An economist is a man who
knows a hundred ways of
making love but doesn?t
know any women.
Art Buchwald
Economy is the method by which
we prepare today to afford the
improvements of tomorrow
Calvin Coolidge quotes
If all the economists in the world
were laid end to end, they
wouldn?t reach any conclusion.
George Bernard Shaw
In economics it is a far,
far wiser thing to be right
than to be consistent
John Kenneth Galbraith
Economics is war pursued
by other means.
Raymond F. DeVoe Jr.
Economics is the science which
studies human behavior as a relationship
between ends and scarce means
which have alternative uses
Lionel Charles Robbins
There can be no economy where
there is no efficiency.
Benjamin Disraeli
A creative economy is the
fuel of magnificence
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our economy is the result of millions
of decisions we all make every
day about producing, earning,
saving, investing, and spending.
Dwight Eisenhower
