Economic Quotes

We should be disciplined and responsible and then our prosperity will be stable despite any economic crisis, inflation or a change of government

~ Sunday Adelaja

If your financial life is not in order, every other area of your life will be in disorder.

~ Bamigboye Olurotimi

The collapse of communism and a recognition of its economic and humanitarian catastrophes took the romance out of revolutionary violence and cast doubt on the wisdom of redistributing wealth at the point of a gun.

~ Steven Pinker

He became convinced that ordinary commercial financing could be done for a service charge plus an insurance fee amounting to much less that the current rates of interest charged by banks, whose rates were based on supply and demand, treating money as a commodity rather than as a sovereign state's means of exchange.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Human thinking can be changed if man is offered the pleasure of money or the sadness of its absence.

~ Marius Stoicescu

In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.

~ Warren Buffett

The opportunity cost of an unlived dream is not only that dream, but also the dreams the dream was meant to inspire.

~ Ryan Lilly

You will miss a normal life while living a successful life, but not as much as the craving for a successful life while you were living a normal life.

~ Amit Kalantri

If you have money but not love you will somehow manage, but if you don't have both then you are in serious trouble.

~ Amit Kalantri

Apart from the economic value, money does have high moral value.

~ Amit Kalantri

Our churches are full of people during work hours, morning, noon, evening, praying instead of being in the factories, libraries, laboratories, facilitating economic growth

~ Sunday Adelaja

What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is the escapist mentality becomes prevalent, giving birth to the syndrome of economic refugees.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Economic and financial conversion is actually attainable, thanks to this principle of truth and honesty.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Well we're waiting here in Allentown,For the Pennsylvania we never found,For the promises our teachers gave,If we worked hard,If we behaved...So the graduations hang on the wall,But they never really helped us at all,No they never taught us what was real,Iron and coke,And chromium steel,And we're waiting here in Allentown...But they've taken all the coal from the ground,And the union people crawled away...

~ Billy Joel

If we don't learn from each others experience, we are forced to listen to people who have economic reasons to withhold critical information from us all. The other option is to wait for the government to tell us what their financial supporters want us to know.

~ Richard Diaz

God through Prophet Hosea is explaining to us reasons for destructions, calamities, failures and devastations among the people of God. That reason is not seen in demonic activities nor is it seen in prevailing economic situations of the land

~ Sunday Adelaja

The form of association, however, which if mankind continue to improve, must be expected in the end to predominate, is not that which can exist between a capitalist as chief, and work-people without a voice in the management, but the association of the labourers themselves on terms of equality, collectively owning the capital with which they carry on their operations, and working under managers elected and removable by themselves.

~ John Stuart Mill

For capitalism to develop, customary ties between people and the land must be severed, and communal obligations among people disrupted.

~ David Mcnally

Priceless is economic illusion.Costless is an economical trick.

~ Toba Beta

A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational, and economic legacies - all of the things that quite literally make us who we are.

~ Steve Berry

No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.

~ A. J. P. Taylor

Well, as a general remark, I would say that I was discouraged by the physical and economic conditions in continental Europe after the war.

~ David K. E. Bruce

It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth.

~ Nigel Farage

Clear communication is always important in central banking, but it can be especially important when economic conditions call for further policy stimulus but the policy rate is already at its effective lower bound.

~ Ben Bernanke

And once you get instantaneous communication with everybody, you have economic activity that's far more advanced, far more liquid, far more distributed than ever before.

~ Marc Andreessen

The dynamic drives of modern economic growth, in the countries that entered the process ahead of others, meant a reaching out geographically; and the sequential spread of the process, facilitated by major changes in transport and communication, meant a continuous expansion to the less developed areas.

~ Simon Kuznets

I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system.

~ Jerry Brown

Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

~ Warren Buffett

All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have.

~ Arthur Scargill

Neither India nor Russia perceives a threat from the strength of the other. Each sees a benefit for itself in the increased political and economic strength of the other.

~ Atal Bihari Vajpayee

We all need Europe, not just those of us in Europe. And we Germans need Europe more than the others. Germany is the country with the longest border, the most neighbours, and is, by population and economic strength, the number one in Europe.

~ Helmut Kohl

Is there a point at which we hit a tipping point and all of this economic, cultural and moral trouble sends us into a death spiral we can't get out of?

~ Joel C. Rosenberg

The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism.

~ Francis Parker Yockey

In the economic sphere, the program demanded thorough decentralization and managerial independence of enterprises, as well as legalization of small-scale private enterprise, especially in the service sector.

~ Alexander Dubcek

Governments must commit to sound economic and financial policies. This is how we ensure reform in the euro area - and our independence.

~ Mario Draghi

Learning the core curriculum cannot come through coercion. It must come through a recognition of the need to integrate with economic life.

~ Reuven Rivlin

An almost forgotten means of economic self-reliance is the home production of food. We are too accustomed to going to stores and purchasing what we need.

~ Ezra Taft Benson

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

~ Martin Luther King

Tourism is a very big economic benefit to the Sherpa people, and also, they have very strong ties to their own social attitudes and their own religion, so fortunately, they're not too influenced by many of our Western attitudes.

~ Edmund Hillary

Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun.

~ Ziggy Marley