Quotes about economic

He became convinced that ordinary commercial financing could be done for a service charge plus an insurance fee amounting to much less that the current rates of interest charged by banks, whose rates were based on supply and demand, treating money as a commodity rather than as a sovereign state's means of exchange.

Human thinking can be changed if man is offered the pleasure of money or the sadness of its absence.

In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.

The collapse of communism and a recognition of its economic and humanitarian catastrophes took the romance out of revolutionary violence and cast doubt on the wisdom of redistributing wealth at the point of a gun.

If your financial life is not in order, every other area of your life will be in disorder.

Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights government should never be permitted to take those away.

Americans no longer look to government for economic security; rather, they look to their portfolios.

What we need is more money back in the hands of Americans of any economic standing and so raising taxes right now doesn't make sense.

Economic prosperity and quality education for our children are inexorably linked.

Education is the best economic policy there is.

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

Because financially capable consumers ultimately contribute to a stable economic and financial system as well as improve their own financial situations, it's clear that the Federal Reserve has a significant stake in financial education.

Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.

For the only way in which a durable peace can be created is by world-wide restoration of economic activity and international trade.

The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.

Economic integration is the path to riches and peace.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

Good environmental policy is good economic policy.

If our system continues without modification involving environmental and social concern, we will face an economic and social breakdown of our outdated monetary and political system.

We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have fought for criminal justice. Now we must add a new fight - the fight for electoral justice.

Environmental agencies in China are hamstrung by local officials who put economic growth ahead of environmental protection; even the courts are beholden to local officials, and they are not open to environmental litigation.

Every global concern - economic, environmental or security-related - can be addressed more effectively when the U.S. and China work together.

The wave of new productive enterprises would provide opportunities to remedy the unjust distribution of environmental hazards among economic classes and racial and ethnic communities.

Energy cogeneration on Capitol Hill makes economic and environmental sense and should be pursued for those reasons.

We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.

Green-tech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st Century.

Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil.

Profit is the sole criterion used by the establishment to evaluate economic activity. From the rat race to lame ducks. The vocabulary in vogue is a give-away. It's more reminiscent of a human menagerie than human society.

We must provide all kinds of freedom, personal and economic, to all Iraqis. I will fight for that.

The global economic outlook remains fragile and uncertain. Global economic imbalances persist and we must address them or risk future instability.

America cannot turn its back on the economic future and women-owned businesses are part of that future.

A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational, and economic legacies - all of the things that quite literally make us who we are.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.

Well, as a general remark, I would say that I was discouraged by the physical and economic conditions in continental Europe after the war.

It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth.

Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.

Clear communication is always important in central banking, but it can be especially important when economic conditions call for further policy stimulus but the policy rate is already at its effective lower bound.

And once you get instantaneous communication with everybody, you have economic activity that's far more advanced, far more liquid, far more distributed than ever before.

The dynamic drives of modern economic growth, in the countries that entered the process ahead of others, meant a reaching out geographically; and the sequential spread of the process, facilitated by major changes in transport and communication, meant a continuous expansion to the less developed areas.

I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system.

Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have.

Neither India nor Russia perceives a threat from the strength of the other. Each sees a benefit for itself in the increased political and economic strength of the other.

We all need Europe, not just those of us in Europe. And we Germans need Europe more than the others. Germany is the country with the longest border, the most neighbours, and is, by population and economic strength, the number one in Europe.

Is there a point at which we hit a tipping point and all of this economic, cultural and moral trouble sends us into a death spiral we can't get out of?

I'm for economic independence.

The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism.

In the economic sphere, the program demanded thorough decentralization and managerial independence of enterprises, as well as legalization of small-scale private enterprise, especially in the service sector.

Governments must commit to sound economic and financial policies. This is how we ensure reform in the euro area - and our independence.

Learning the core curriculum cannot come through coercion. It must come through a recognition of the need to integrate with economic life.

An almost forgotten means of economic self-reliance is the home production of food. We are too accustomed to going to stores and purchasing what we need.

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

Tourism is a very big economic benefit to the Sherpa people, and also, they have very strong ties to their own social attitudes and their own religion, so fortunately, they're not too influenced by many of our Western attitudes.

Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun.

China's history is marked by thousands of years of world-changing innovations: from the compass and gunpowder to acupuncture and the printing press. No one should be surprised that China has re-emerged as an economic superpower.

The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.

We have to recognize that the freedom of the individual has to be protected not only from the power of the state, but even more so from economic and societal power.

The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.

To finance deficits, the government must sell bonds to investors, competing for capital that could otherwise be used to invest in stocks or corporate bonds. Government borrowings raise long-term interest rates, stifling economic growth.

Great countries need to secure their border for national security purposes, for economic purposes and for rule of law purposes.

If workers are more insecure, that's very 'healthy' for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won't ask for wages, they won't go on strike, they won't call for benefits; they'll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that's optimal for corporations' economic health.

High-speed rail would revolutionise interstate travel and would also be an economic game-changer for dozens of regional communities along its path.

While the wider global environment is worrying, we are seeing some positive results in our economic affairs.

Priceless is economic illusion.Costless is an economical trick.

Justice requires not only the ceasing and desisting of injustice but also requires either punishment or reparation for injuries and damages inflicted for prior wrongdoing. The essence of justice is the redistribution of gains earned through the perpetration of injustice. If restitution is not made and reparations not instituted to compensate for prior injustices, those injustices are in effect rewarded. And the benefits such rewards conferred on the perpetrators of injustice will continue to "dr

If we don't learn from each others experience, we are forced to listen to people who have economic reasons to withhold critical information from us all. The other option is to wait for the government to tell us what their financial supporters want us to know.

God through Prophet Hosea is explaining to us reasons for destructions, calamities, failures and devastations among the people of God. That reason is not seen in demonic activities nor is it seen in prevailing economic situations of the land

The form of association, however, which if mankind continue to improve, must be expected in the end to predominate, is not that which can exist between a capitalist as chief, and work-people without a voice in the management, but the association of the labourers themselves on terms of equality, collectively owning the capital with which they carry on their operations, and working under managers elected and removable by themselves.

For capitalism to develop, customary ties between people and the land must be severed, and communal obligations among people disrupted.

The secret of real prosperity in the church is to teach God’s people principles of economic empowerment

Growing economies are built by billions of actors behaving according to their own interests, coordinated through institutions that no one in particular created.Realizing this requires humility, a trait that is in short supply among would-be dictators, politicians, and bureaucrats, which is precisely why these groups are the proven enemies of prosperity in all times and places.

Economic and financial conversion is actually attainable, thanks to this principle of truth and honesty.

Well we're waiting here in Allentown,For the Pennsylvania we never found,For the promises our teachers gave,If we worked hard,If we behaved...So the graduations hang on the wall,But they never really helped us at all,No they never taught us what was real,Iron and coke,And chromium steel,And we're waiting here in Allentown...But they've taken all the coal from the ground,And the union people crawled away...

What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is the escapist mentality becomes prevalent, giving birth to the syndrome of economic refugees.

The opportunity cost of an unlived dream is not only that dream, but also the dreams the dream was meant to inspire.

You will miss a normal life while living a successful life, but not as much as the craving for a successful life while you were living a normal life.

If you have money but not love you will somehow manage, but if you don't have both then you are in serious trouble.

Apart from the economic value, money does have high moral value.

Our churches are full of people during work hours, morning, noon, evening, praying instead of being in the factories, libraries, laboratories, facilitating economic growth

We should be disciplined and responsible and then our prosperity will be stable despite any economic crisis, inflation or a change of government