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An economist is someone who knows more about money than the people who have it.

Economy and Economics
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An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else s.

Will Rogers

Economy and Economics
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Be thrifty, but not covetous.

George Herbert

Economy and Economics
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But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Economy and Economics
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Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

Charles Caleb Colton

Economy and Economics
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Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow the vulgar great, the vainly rich, the miserable proud, the mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings, and with blind feelings reverence the power that grinds them to the dust of misery.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Economy and Economics
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Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Economy and Economics
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Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.

Hannah Arendt

Economy and Economics
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Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.

John F. Kennedy

Economy and Economics
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Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil.

Joseph Schumpeter

Economy and Economics
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Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse.

Seneca the Younger

Economy and Economics
12

First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.

Doug Horton

Economy and Economics
13

Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

Edmund Burke

Economy and Economics
14

Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, On the one hand on the other.

Harry S. Truman

Economy and Economics
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How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!

Horace

Economy and Economics
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I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes.

Edward Gibbon

Economy and Economics
17

I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.

Hubert Humphrey

Economy and Economics
18

If all the economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.

George Bernard Shaw

Economy and Economics
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If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.

John Maynard Keynes

Economy and Economics
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If you took all the economists in the world and laid them end-to-end, they couldn't reach a conclusion

Economy and Economics
21

In economics the majority is always wrong.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Economy and Economics
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In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Economy and Economics
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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

Ezra Pound

Economy and Economics
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In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good or equally bad. It is the narrowest decisions that are most ardently debated. If the world is lucky enough to enjoy peace, it may even one day make the discovery, to the horror of doctrinaire free-enterprisers and doctrinaire planners alike, that what is called capitalism and what is called socialism are both capable of working quite well.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Economy and Economics
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Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

John Ruskin

Economy and Economics
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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

Edmund Burke

Economy and Economics
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Much in little.

Economy and Economics
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Never spend your money before you have earned it.

Thomas Jefferson

Economy and Economics
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No nation was ever ruined by trade.

Benjamin Franklin

Economy and Economics
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No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Economy and Economics
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People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

Cicero

Economy and Economics
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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

Economy and Economics
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The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems -- the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.

John Maynard Keynes

Economy and Economics
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The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

Ernest Hemingway

Economy and Economics
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The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

Ronald Reagan

Economy and Economics
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The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.

H. G. Wells

Economy and Economics
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There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield

Economy and Economics
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We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.

Ronald Reagan

Economy and Economics

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An economist is someone who knows more about money than the people who have it.

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else s.

Be thrifty, but not covetous.

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.

Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.

Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.

Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil.

Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse.

First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.

Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, On the one hand on the other.

How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!

I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes.

I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.

If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.

If you took all the economists in the world and laid them end-to-end, they couldn't reach a conclusion

In economics the majority is always wrong.

In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

Much in little.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

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.

The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems -- the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.