Quotes about Economy

But it was not till the Industrial Revolution that wealth creation definitively replaced corruption as the best way to get rich. In England, at least, corruption only became unfashionable (and in fact only started to be called "corruption") when there started to be other, faster ways to get rich.

the economic sphere is like a thermometer that reveals both the temperature of the theological relationship between God and Israel (angle A), and also the extent to which Israel was conforming to the social shape required of them in consistency with their status as God's redeemed people (angle B).

People are not being paid enough, and we have not increased the minimum wage -- and we should be incentivizing the people who go to work. We should make working full-time something that will pay a living wage.

Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.

There is no economic failure so terrible in its import as that of a country possessing a surplus of every necessity of life in which numbers willing and anxious to work, are deprived of dire necessities. It simply cannot be if our moral and economic system is to survive.

We're giving jobs to people who would otherwise be out of work if we weren't exploiting cheap labor.

We may not realize it, but a crucial step in building a healthy economy is helping people move from welfare to work.

We will instead have to measure our economy by the health of the ecosystems and human communities where we do our work.

The American economy has been built and sustained by risk-taking entrepreneurs whose pioneering ideas and hard work gave birth to flourishing businesses.

You can't tax business. Business doesn't pay taxes. It collects taxes.

We're going to start making things again in America. As part of our plan to bring back our jobs, we're going to lower our business tax from 35 percent to 15 tax, the biggest since Ronald Reagan.

You could transfer Congress over to run Standard Oil or General Motors, and they would have both things bankrupt in two years.