Quotes about Economics

"If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion."
-George Bernard Shaw

"Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow."
-Calvin Coolidge

"An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible."
-Alfred A. Knopf

"Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes."
-Nikita Khrushchev

"Every time in this century we've lowered the tax rates across the board, on employment, on saving, investment and risk-taking in this economy, revenues went up, not down."
-Jack Kemp

"People are companies too."
-Philip Rosedale

"Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists."
-John Kenneth Galbraith

"The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last."
-William Shenstone

"Henry Ford was right. A prosperous economy requires that workers be able to buy the products that they produce. This is as true in a global economy as a national one."
-John J. Sweeney

"Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair."
-Sam Ewing

"The nation that buys commands, the nation that sells serves; it is necessary to balance trade in order to ensure freedom; the country that wants to die sells only to one country , and the country that wants to survive sells to more than one."
-Jose Marti

"Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
-Kelvin Throop III

"There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity."
-Chester Bowles

"An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today."
-Laurence J. Peter

"Mark this well, the laws of economics are the last thing the roads booster is thinking about."
-Aldo Leopold

"Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago."
-Paul A. Samuelson

"In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from."
-Peter F. Drucker

"With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper."
-Thorstein Veblen

"Everybody is always in favor of general economy and particular expenditure."
-Anthony Eden

"Everything reminds Milton Friedman of the money supply. Well, everything reminds me of sex, but I keep it out of the paper."
-Robert Solow

"Stagflation is too tame to describe the economic crisis of Ukraine. The country is actually going through a 'hyper-depression'."
-Daniel Kaufmann

"[Coach Dan Hawkins] understands the economics of it. I try to balance it year to year."
-Gene Bleymaier

"The economics are still all stacked in the spammer's favor."
-Steve Linford

"But we've got to remember the economics have to be there to support it."
-George Shinn

"There isn't anyone who understands the economics of this. We're going to find out according to which companies go bankrupt."
-Robert Lucky

"The economics didn't make sense."
-Steve Kessel

"A lot of it is the simple economics of our time. Taxes go up."
-Ron Batory

"But despite those barriers, the economics of serving as an aggregator are too attractive to ignore."
-Hamilton Sekino