Quotes about Economics

Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions or property in geometrical progression as they rise. Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. Letter to James Madison, October 28, 1785

Property is organized robbery.

A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.

A fair price for oil is whatever you can get plus ten to twenty per cent.

Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.

The LAW OF ECONOMICS was passed by Nature! There is no Supreme Court to which violators of this law may appeal. The law hands out both penalties for its violation, and appropriate rewards for its observance, without interference or the possibility of interference by any human being. The law cannot be repealed. It is as fixed as the stars in the heavens, and subject to, and a part of the same system that controls the stars.

It is easier to increase profits by cutting the expenses in many cases than it is to increase profits by increasing sales.

The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally allowed to get married because you couldn't have that kind of love. It might get in the way of the economics of slavery. Your children could be taken from you and literally sold down the river.

It's clearly a budget. It's got lots of numbers in it.

I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war.

It was the money from 'Star Wars' and 'Jaws' that allowed the theaters to build their multiplexes, which allowed an opening up of screens.

That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true...