Economic Quotes

After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it – removing that advantage for all firms.

We need to be doing lots of other things with the resources that we have. So economic power works just as well as military power, perhaps even better. And speaking of that, our Military needs to be upgraded.

Economists who speak the English tongue are strangely intimidated by mathematical symbols.

No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.

I quickly convinced myself that the true key to material happiness lay in a modest standard of living which could be achieved with little difficulty under almost all economic conditions.

We must see what is achievable in our circumstances and evaluate all decisions. In terms of regional economic integration, sentimentality is not enough.

Now I don’t know what your college experience was like, but I’ll tell ya, on Saturday morning at 8 o’clock, the last thing I wanted to do was go to economics class.

Africa does not have an uncle abroad who will come to bail it out of its political and economic woes.

I know that communism never worked and I would have disliked living under it myself but none the less it seems that there was a kind of sadness in the thought that the only economic system that appeared to work was one based on self interest and greed.

Obama’s economic policies obviously have not worked, and have left the American market place with enormous uncertainty and anxiety.