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

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

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

Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth; capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth.

Lester Brown

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

Kelvin Throop III

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

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity.

Chester Bowles

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

There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.

Richard Feynman

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

There's a huge change in the economics of television.

Bruce Helford

You said the right word. Economics.

Ron Dean

The economics are evolving in the movie business. Everybody has to recognize that.

Adam Goodman

We're making such a big leap with a different architecture that it enables different economics.

Scott Cooper

Alaska's gas has been stranded because the economics weren't there to support development, ... But now that's changed.

Frank Murkowski

These tools are changing the basic core economics of software development.

Tim Bray

I decided when it was kind of questionable whether I could get back on the ice or not, that I would finish off my undergraduate degree in economics.

Stu Grimson

You learn about economics and mass produce little things to make a profit.

Andrew Shields

The economics are turning out substantially better than forecast.

Dave O'reilly

There's more consensus . . . within the economics profession about how the world works than there was in the 1950s, '60s and '70s.

Allan H. Meltzer

Economics should always be paramount over tax considerations. Don't let the tax tail wag the investment dog.

Robert Mason

So much of it is economics. Everything we deal with within a community is, it comes down to, in one way or another, to economics.

Bryan Thompson

You could destroy the economics of this industry in one day by denying all the tax deductions on loans used for acquisitions.

John Moulton

If all options were valued and expensed, business decisions would be based on economics and not on accounting.

John Briggs

They are big on zealous regulation, but they are not good at real economics.

Stuart Thomson

We certainly couldn't compete with that type of money. The economics of the WNBA would not allow for that type of deal.

Seth Sulka

Reacts to commercial economics but not to safety.

Jack Shaw

There's tremendous risk and a lot of apprehension, because the economics are broken. In some small way, we're going to try to bring things back in balance.

Kevin Bachus

It's basic economics, and the lack of understanding of basic economics in this Congress is why this country is in trouble.

John Peterson

This is much more about politics than economics.

Peter Hakim

U.S. History, World History, Geography, Law, Economics and Psychology.

Al Smith

The economics are extremely compelling. It is good for every reason we can think of.

Bjorn Hanson

The simple answer is: Oil prices make coal so much more competitive. The economics are all on coal.

Joe Angleton

The economics of this business is all about payout.

Glenn Mcginnis

A lot of people are affected by the economics of the whole thing.

Dave Ruppel

It's economics principles put on in a fun way. And we throw a little ethics in there, too.

Blake Bradley

Economics, finance, foreign affairs, the environment - you name it, they're there.

David Shambaugh

I think that's a theory in economics that that is what happens, ... We think some of it is very conservative.

Elizabeth Baker