(1643 quotes found)
“In economics, the majority is always wrong.”
John Kenneth Galbraith
“Economics is the science which studies human behavior as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses”
Lionel Charles Robbins
“I want to talk about political and economic fairy tales”
Ronald Reagan
“We did it [Disneyland], in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.”
Walt Disney
“Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way”
Will Durant
“The idealist's program of political or economic reform may be impracticable, absurd, demonstrably ridiculous; but it can never be successfully opposed merely by pointing out that this is the case. A negative opposition cannot be wholly effectual: there must be a competing idealism; something must be offered that is not only less objectionable but more desirable.”
Charles Horton Cooley
“It is an unsustainable economic model. They AOL are charging limited rates for unlimited access to a resource that is essentially limited.”
Mohan Sawhney
“A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year”
Marty Allen
“The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.”
James Thurber
“One of the soundest rules I try to remember when making forecasts in the field of economics is that whatever is to happen is happening already”
Sylvia Porter
