- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Economics Quotes
Most Famous Economics Quotes of All Time!
These Business quotes note how a firm's reputation can outlast even brilliant leadership when the underlying economics are weak. Others point to digital-era shifts, where scale and margins now matter more than simple revenue.
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- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
The anti-New Deal line is wrong as a matter of economics. F.D.R.'s spending programs did help the economy and created millions of new jobs.
- Boring Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a graduate student, I actually took a course in development economics and I thought it was the most boring thing in the world.
- Ale
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not about revenues: The fundamental economics in digital business is scale and margins. The top line has become the bottom line.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things I learned in 'Slavs!' is that it's much easier to talk about being gay than it is to talk about being a socialist. People are afraid of socialism, and plays that deal with economics are scarier to them.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Washington is a place where politics and economics often aren't on speaking terms.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Funnily enough, the Federal Reserve produced comics about monetary policy, and there is a good comic book guide to microeconomics and macroeconomics out there. But it is not really appropriate for younger readers; it is really aimed at economics students.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
- End Of The Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Economists tend to think they are much, much smarter than historians, than everybody. And this is a bit too much because at the end of the day, we don't know very much in economics.
- First World
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- Nov 07, 2020
The adverse economic events following the First World War turned me toward economics.
A few thinkers admit their own economics writing began as an abstract digression, only later revealing basic truths about markets missed by the wider literature, a theme People quotes revisit often.