Quotes about Economics

Economic equality is the master-key to nonviolent independence.

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.

Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.

that the failure of governments is due to the pressure of economic interest upon them rather than to the "limited capacities of human wisdom.

It is the nature of a business community that it deals with the covert forms of power in economic life and to be insensible to the significance and the complexity of more overt forms of power, even as it is insensible to the motive of the lust for power as an element in human nature.

The bourgeois takes economic power very seriously, and often worships it quite unselfishly.

The longer I go on, the more I am aware of the power of finance.

The differences in income between the poor world and the rich world are so great that people have to be interested.

Wars aren't won with guns; they're won with checkbooks.

It is too expensive to have a bricks and mortar presence everywhere.

I'm a Marxist.