Economy Quotes

We were a fast-growing company, and I was a demanding boss.

I didn’t have anything to apologize for.

We do not expect significant spillovers from the subprime market to the rest of the economy or to the financial system.

I put those people in place. I trusted them. I had no idea they would do anything like this.

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

Tanzania being among the highly indebted countries, I had to give sports the least prominence during my first term, while setting priorities in revitalising our economy.

I don’t know technology and engineering. I don’t know accounting.

We can’t cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.

No economic activity was more irrepressible [in the 14th century] than the investment and lending at interest of money; it was the basis for the rise of the Western capitalist economy and the building of private fortunes-and it was based on the sin of usury.

The financial industry undergirded the entire economy and if it is made riskier by deregulation and collapses in widespread bankruptcies as what happened in 2008, the entire economy freezes because it runs on credit.