Quotes about Economics
No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We try to pay a man what he is worth and we are not inclined to keep a man who is not worth more than the minimum wage.
- Henry Ford
There can be no profit in the making or selling of things to be destroyed in war. Men may think that they have such profit, but in the end the profit will turn out to be a loss.
- Alexander Hamilton
Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
- Mahatma Gandhi
The money paid at consumption is paid by everybody, including illegals, prostitutes, pimps, drug dealers.
- Mike Huckabee
Looking at these issues as a businessman, I believe that investing in the world's poorest people is the smartest way that our government spends money.
- Bill Gates
Money is worth what it will help you to produce or buy and no more.
- Henry Ford
If we raise taxes on corporations, what incentive will they have to make money other than the fact that it's the sole reason they exist.
- Stephen Colbert
Money is coined liberty.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first.
- Seth Godin
It's clearly a budget. It's got lots of numbers in it.
- George W. Bush
Patriotism is no substitute for a sound currency.
- Grover Cleveland