- 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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- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave.
- Leader
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- Nov 07, 2020
You need to invest in areas where you can be the market leader because then you get a disproportionate share of the economics when you are.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt completely ready to become prime minister. I came to office better equipped, in terms of knowledge of economics and of the Australian economy, than anyone before me, or since, I would say.
- Economic
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- Nov 07, 2020
President Reagan, Jack Kemp and other advocates of supply-side economics understood that pro-growth tax, spending and economic policies were essential to America's long-term economic and fiscal health.
- Grateful
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1922, I got a small stipend from the Swedish-American Foundation and went to Cambridge, England, for a few months and thereafter to Harvard University. In the summer, Cambridge was rather empty, but I am grateful for many pleasant talks about economics with Austin Robinson who, in the summer of 1922, seemed to be about as lonely as I was.
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ultimate purpose of economics, of course, is to understand and promote the enhancement of well-being.
- Coffee
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- Nov 07, 2020
I served seven years as the chair of the Princeton economics department where I had responsibility for major policy decisions, such as whether to serve bagels or doughnuts at the department coffee hour.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Economics has many substantive areas of knowledge where there is agreement, but also contains areas of controversy. That's inescapable.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got into economics because I wanted to make things better for the average person.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Textbooks describe economics as the study of the allocation of scarce resources. That definition may be the 'what,' but it certainly is not the 'why.'
- Brain Surgery
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- Nov 07, 2020
Economics is not brain surgery.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the economics of this country is intricately linked to the politics of this country and the two cannot be separated.
- Communism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lots of us have been plugging away, building a platform to talk about libertarian communism and post-scarcity economics.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child, I had no idea that I would end up in the film industry. My ambitions changed from wanting to join the army like my grandfather to taking up merchant navy as a career to running for India, and finally, investment banking while I was a student of economics honour. But during my college days, I began to get offers for modelling.
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.