(1643 quotes found)
“Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes”
Nikita Khrushchev
“Men do not realize how great a revenue economy is”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“And I know this happens because I took economics, and I'd explain it to yea' - but I flunked that course. Not my fault. They taught it at 8 o'clock in the morning. And there is absolutely nothing you can learn out of one bloodshot eye.”
Lewis Black
“An economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough revenue to balance our budget, just as it will never produce enough jobs or enough profits”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Economics has as its purpose firstly to acquire knowledge for its own sake, and secondly to throw light on practical issues. But though we are bound, before entering on any study, to consider carefully what are its uses, we should not plan out our work with direct reference to them.”
Alfred Marshall
“Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.”
Paul A. Samuelson
“That's just about girls. It's weird that whatever else is on your mind, whether it's the downfall of global economics or terrible environmental troubles, the thing that always gets you most is when you fancy someone”
Chris Martin
“I think it's both good ethics and good economics to scrap this notion that we can fight a war on terror and give rich folks like me a tax cut. It amounts to class warfare.”
Bill Clinton
“Profit is the ignition system of our economic engine.”
Charles Sawyer
