Quotes about Economy

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

I love entrepreneurship because that's what makes this country grow, and if I can help companies grow, I am creating jobs; I am setting foundations for future generations. It sends the message that the American Dream is alive and well.

The rich alone use imported articles, and on these alone the whole taxes of the General Government are levied...and its surplus applied to canals, roads, schools, etc., the farmer will see his government supported, his children educated, and the face of his country made a paradise by the contributions of the rich alone, without his being called on to spend a cent from his earnings.

We do not hope for what we have. Therefore, to live in hope is to live in poverty, having nothing. And yet, if we abandon ourselves to economy of Divine Providence, we have everything we hope for. By faith we know God without seeing Him. By hope we possess God without feeling His presence. If we hope in God, by hope we already possess Him, since hope is a confidence which He creates in our souls as secret evidence that He has taken possession of us.

This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.

I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people.

Mere parsimony is not economy . . . expense, and great expense, may be an essential part of true economy.

He who will not economize will have to agonize.

After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.... Economy is always a guarantee of peace.

My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV.

Commerce can never be at a stop while one man wants what another can supply; and credit will never be denied, while it is likely to be repaid with profit.

Some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty, and poverty won.