Economics Quotes - Page 34

• Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Business, Creativity

  In Observer 1 Mar. 1987

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• In economics, we borrowed from the Bourbons; in foreign policy, we drew on themes fashioned by the nomad warriors of the Eurasian steppes. In spiritual matters, we emulated the braying intolerance of our archenemies, the Shite fundamentalists.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Spiritual, War, Matter

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• I’m not into the whole Austrian type, strongly libertarian economics. I like more mainstream economics.

  Robert Sarvis

  Libertarian, Mainstream, Type

  "Robert Sarvis: Libertarian Candidate for Governor of Virginia with Double-Digit Poll Numbers". Interview with Brian Doherty, reason.com. October 2, 2013.

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• At what price do we get our news? The role of economics in defining the nature of contemporary journalism has never been better explained. A valuable, important book for those of us who watch, read, or listen to the news.

  Marvin Kalb

  Book, Important, Watches

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• Most of economics can be summarized in four words: 'People respond to incentives.' The rest is commentary.

  Steven Landsburg

  People, Incentives, Four

  Steven E. Landsburg (2012). “The Armchair Economist: Economics & Everyday Life”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• Industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the wheels stop turning.

  Aldous Huxley

  Self, Civilization, Hygiene

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• Republicans don't have to accept evolution, economics, climatology, or human sexuality, but I just watched a week of their national convention, and I need them to admit the historical existence of George W. Bush. If your party can run the nation for eight years and then have a national convention and not invite Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Karl Rove, or Tom DeLay, you're not a political movement, you're the witness protection program.

  Bill Maher

  Running, Party, Years

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• And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it; and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don't get it, you're missing the whole point.

  Michael Berryman

  Missing You, War, Book

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• When we refer to 'the biblical approach to economics' or the biblical response to politics' or 'biblical womanhood,' we're using the Bible as a weapon disguised as an adjective.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Biblical, Adjectives, Weapons

  Rachel Held Evans (2014). “Faith Unraveled: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask Questions”, p.91, Zondervan

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• This is the welfare generation, and that is incredibly sad. That will be judged in history as being far worse, I believe, than the stolen generation, because we are literally losing thousands and thousands of our indigenous brothers and sisters to the effects of welfare – drugs, gunja, low morale, alcoholism. I see it everyday and it can stop. The solution is education, training and a guaranteed opportunity.

  Andrew Forrest

  Brother, Business, Believe

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• I went to university for a couple of years and I didn't enjoy university. The studying and the accountancy, economics, I just hated that stuff. Now the irony is here I am lawyer, accountant, I do it all day every day and sit at a desk. So I've never ended up where I wanted to be in many ways. I always wanted to be a farmer.

  Gerry Harvey

  Couple, Years, Here I Am

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• We should have a system of economics that is structure that is organic tools. We do not have it. We are all hanging by our eyebrows from skyhooks economically, just as we are architecturally.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Should Have, Eyebrows, Tools

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1987). “Truth Against the World: Frank Lloyd Wright Speaks for an Organic Architecture”

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• My friends, that's trickle-down economics, and I believe every worker in America is tired of being trickled on by George W. Bush

  John F. Kerry

  Believe, Tired, America

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• The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should. I've got Greenspan's book.

  John McCain

  Book, Issues, Should

  "Responding to Recession" by Paul Krugman, www.nytimes.com. Janaury 14, 2008.

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• I'm going to be honest: I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues. I still need to be educated.

  John McCain

  Military, Issues, Needs

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. January 27, 2008.

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• We all need a story. It just turns out that the story we have been told for years - that people are naturally and primarily competitive and self-interested and that life is best shaped around that bleak fact - is bunkum

  Ed Mayo

  Business, Self, Years

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• It's not competition and greed that makes the world go around, it's cooperating and caring

  Ed Mayo

  Business, Caring, Greed

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• People used to ask me for advice, and I'd say, 'Please, don't ask me!' Yes, I did economics at Oxford, but that's not the same as having a broad knowledge of personal finance

  Sophie Kinsella

  Oxford, People, Advice

  "Sophie Kinsella: 'You can be highly intelligent - and also ditzy and klutzy'". Interview With Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2012.

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• By government giveaway programs, individuals are often hurt far more than they are helped. The recipients of these programs become dependent on the government and their dignity is destroyed. Is it compassionate to enslave more and more people by making them a part of the government dependency cycle? I think compassion should be measured by how many people no longer need it. Helping people to become self-sufficient is much more compassionate than drugging them with the narcotic of welfare.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Hurt, Thinking, Compassion

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• If we can implant in our people the Christian virtues which we sum up in the word character, and, at the same time, give them a knowledge of the line which should be drawn between voluntary action and governmental compulsion in a democracy, and of what can be accomplished within the stern laws of economics, we will enable them to retain their freedom, and at the same time, make them worthy to be free.

  Winthrop W. Aldrich

  Christian, Freedom, Character

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• Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as much a rarity as a literate newspaper publisher. A financier interested in economics is as exceptional as a labor leader interested in the labor movement. For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they [only] marshal us in the way that we are going.

  Bergen Evans

  Leadership, College, Average

  Bergen Evans (1954). “The Spoor of Spooks: And Other Nonsense”, New York : Knopf

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• You should choose organisations that are going to be flexible and supportive and recognise people are going through different stages in their careers and actually need different sorts of support.

  Gail Kelly

  Business, Women, Careers

  "St George CEO juggles work-life balance". Interview with Andrew Robertson, www.abc.net.au. May 22, 2007.

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• If I'm watching my son play soccer, that's what I'm doing. If I'm going to a school concert, that's what I'm doing. I turn the phone off. I actively tune into whatever I'm doing. I walk every evening with one of my sons and for that half an hour, 45 minutes, that's what I'm doing.

  Gail Kelly

  Soccer, Business, Women

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• It doesn't matter what business you're in. It is the people who achieve things, not capital, and the great advantage for us is that I think women have always known this.

  Janet Holmes a Court

  Business, Women, Thinking

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• Economics are the method; the object is to change the soul.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Government, Soul, Method

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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