Economy And Economics

(208 votes)   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
1792-1822, British Poet

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(188 votes)   For the past 15 years or so, British governments have tried to persuade the rest of us that the best judges of the national interest are...businessmen. This may be a ridiculous statement, but -- ominously -- fewer and fewer people laugh at it.

Neil Ascherson
British Journalist

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(111 votes)   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
1882-1945, Thirty-second President of the USA

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(106 votes)   An economist is someone who knows more about money than the people who have it.

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(101 votes)   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
1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA

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

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(94 votes)   How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!

Horace
BC 65-8, Italian Poet

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(93 votes)   Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse.

Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(74 votes)   Never spend your money before you have earned it.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(73 votes)   A nation is not in danger of financial disaster merely because it owes itself money.

Andrew William Mellon
1855-1937, American Financier, Philanthropist, Statesman

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

John Kenneth Galbraith
1908-, American Economist

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(71 votes)   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
1866-1946, British-born American Author

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(68 votes)   Give me a one-handed economist! All my economics say, ''On the one hand… on the other.''

Harry S. Truman
1884-1972, Thirty-third President of the USA

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(66 votes)   There is much of economic theory which is pursued for no better reason than its intellectual attraction; it is a good game. We have no reason to be ashamed of that, since the same would hold for many branches of mathematics.

John Hicks
British Economist

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

Thomas C. Haliburton
1796-1865, Canadian Jurist, Author

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