A nation will not survive morally or economically when so few have so much and so many have so little. — Bernie Sanders
Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical. — Amartya Sen
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Neither the military might nor the economic and technological development makes a nation great. It is made great by it's citizens with Self Respect and Integrity ingrained in their lives. — Pandurang Shastri Athavale
How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century. — Aneurin Bevan
The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer. — Adam Smith
Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs. — Nancy Pelosi
Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal. — E. O. Wilson
We are not afraid of economic sanctions or military intervention. What we are afraid of is Western universities. — Ruhollah Khomeini
Short Economics Quotes
I do not want India to be an economic superpower. I want India to be a happy country. — J. R. D. Tata
I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven. — Emily Dickinson
Don't let anybody tell you it's corporations and businesses that create jobs. — Hillary Clinton
Of the people, by the people, for the people. — Sun Yat-sen
We cannot choose between [economic] growth and sustainability - we must have both — Paul Polman
Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment. — Barbara Jordan
The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages. — David Ricardo
The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government. — Tacitus
Government is not the generator of economic growth; working people are. — Phil Gramm
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality — Ayn Rand
Economics Image Quotes
We're all consumers. The consumer is not a moron; she is your wife.
The Bahamas is headed for unprecedented economic activity. — Perry Christie
Globalization is incredibly efficient but also so far incredibly unjust. — Pascal Lamy
Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage. — David Attenborough
In embracing change, entrepreneurs ensure social and economic stability. — George Gilder
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Wealth breeds a class of people for whom human beings are disposable commodities. Once oligarchs achieve unchecked economic and political power, as they have in the United States, the citizens too become disposable.
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith. — Alexis de Tocqueville
Financial Problems Quotes
If you want a happy and fulfilled life, you need to be physically, mentally, spiritually, and financially fit. More money will fix your financial problems only. — Jaspreet Singh
Liquidity problems can occur in central clearing, even if all counterparties have the financial resources to meet their obligations if they are unable to convert those resources into cash quickly enough. — Jerome Powell
No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the emergency room every time a child gets sick. And no one should have to live in constant fear that a medical problem will become a financial crisis. — Brad Henry
Developing countries like Malaysia should have a say in changing the world financial system since we have faced the problems that it has caused. — Mahathir Mohamad
I’ve found both delight and financial benefits in working out solutions to problems without growing. — Paul Jarvis
If you have a trillion dollars, you don't really have any problems. — MrBeast
The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy. — Alan Greenspan
The signal is monetary expansion everywhere. The problem is people are going to lose half their wealth in a few years. The solution is Bitcoin. The rest is noise. — Michael Saylor
Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them. — Margaret Thatcher
Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions — Tony Robbins
Economic Issues Quotes
The economic issues are most vital for us and it is of the highest importance that we should fight our biggest enemies - Poverty, unemployment. — Lal Bahadur Shastri
I will not let anyone tell me we must spend more money. This crisis did not come about because we issued too little money but because we created economic growth with too much money and it was not sustainable growth. — Angela Merkel
Scotland has a great deal to offer the world in terms of our approach to key economic and social issues. — Nicola Sturgeon
Using some economic issues to make one group of people, regardless of race or religion, the scapegoat for all the problems of the country is just the stupidest, and yet, the most creative propaganda scheme that you can come up with. — Immortal Technique
Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity. — Michael Porter
We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participation of women is needed now more than ever. — Michelle Bachelet
Neither a state nor a bank ever have had unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power. — David Ricardo
Now our Earth is swarmed with issues such as life, death, illness, wars, economic crises and many others. It is time that we sing out loud the message, 'Love forever.' — Yayoi Kusama
The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution. — Ludwig von Mises
The reason I made women's issues central to American foreign policy, was not because I was a feminist, but because we know that societies are more stable if women are politically and economically empowered. — Madeleine Albright
Business Problems Quotes
Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had. — Alan Watts
We don’t have business problems we have people problems. When we take care of our people problems, most of our business problems are automatically resolved — Shiv Khera
Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord. — J. I. Packer
Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system. — Carly Fiorina
When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life. —
Slow your busy mind, give up the idea of problems, and seek peace from mind by watching your mind all day long. — Naval Ravikant
Creativity can solve almost any problem. — George Lois
Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great. — James C. Collins
A need is what you believe your customers require to solve a problem, and the product or business becomes the mechanism to fulfill that requirement. — Pat Flynn
We’ve got a problem, we need to fix that problem. The technology’s here, we’ve proven that… it’s just about finding a sustainable business model. — Micky Watkins
Economic Crisis Quotes
The climate crisis is being used to create totalitarian controls on society by the World Economic Forum, Bill Gates, and all of these megabillionaires. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength. — George W. Bush
If we have an economic crisis in the Western world it's because the government makes up 50 percent or more of the economy. This is a cancer that is taking away people's freedom. — Marc Faber
The exchange-rate trap, another legacy of this former president Alberto Fernández’s government, not only constitutes a social and productive nightmare, but also the surplus of money today is double what it was before the Rodrigazo economic crisis of 1975. — Javier Milei
What the people here have said is that given the enormous crises facing our country, it is just too late for the same old, same old establishment politics and establishment economics. — Bernie Sanders
The economic crisis really affected my family - 2006 to 2011 were really bad times. Almost everybody in my family lost their jobs. — Joey Badass
Women's struggle for equality worldwide is about more than equality between men and women. Our struggle is about reversing the trends of social, economic, political, and ecological crisis - a global nervous breakdown! Our struggle is about creating sustainable lives and attainable dreams. — Bella Abzug
Marxists have more than once pointed out that the capitalist world economic system contains in itself the seeds of a general crisis and of warlike clashes. — Joseph Stalin
Ebola is not just a health crisis. Across West Africa, a generation of young people risks being lost to an economic catastrophe. — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but its significance to human beings is ancient. — Mo Yan
Money Problem Quotes
The solution to any problem -work, love, money, whatever -is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be. — John Gierach
When you create something that is popular, when you create a solution, you're an innovator, and you solve problems for people and they like what you have to offer, of course you automatically make money. — Kim Dotcom
The problem with government-provided money is that its hardness depends entirely on the ability of those in charge to not inflate its supply. Only political constraints provide hardness, and there are no physical, economic, or natural constraints. — Saifedean Ammous
Money will fix all your problems. If money was so bad and did not bring happiness all the billionaires would be giving it away. Wake up. — Andrew Tate
Bitcoin is probably the most portable money in the history of the world. I can download any amount onto a thumb drive and walk across any border without any problems. Or, I could commit to memory a line of code that I can then input into the network and save or spend Bitcoins. — Max Keiser
The goal of a private company is, first, zero to one: Get past the product-market fit; figure out whether people actually care about what you're trying to build and someone will pay you money for that. That's the zero to one problem. — Chamath Palihapitiya
If a problem can be solved with money, then it’s not a problem but a cost. — Jewish Proverbs
Earn as much money as you possibly can and as quickly as you can. The sooner you get money out of the way, the sooner you will be able to get to the rest of your problems in style. — Jim Rohn
Global warming is part of natural cycle and there's nothing we can actually do to stop these cycles. The world is now facing spending a vast amount of money in tax to try to solve a problem that doesn't actually exist. — David Bellamy
Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem. — Bill Vaughan
There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism - by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide. — Ayn Rand
The oil is a gift bestowed by God on the Arab nation, to use after centuries of poverty, backwardness and servitude - in raising its living standards, developing its economic, social and cultural conditions, and building up its own power to meet the challenges and conspiracies besetting it. — Saddam Hussein
Today, the top one-tenth of 1% owns nearly as much wealth as the bottom 90%. The economic game is rigged, and this level of inequality is unsustainable. We need an economy that works for all, not just the powerful. — Bernie Sanders
I believe profoundly in the possibilities of democracy, but democracy needs to be emancipated from capitalism. As long as we inhabit a capitalist democracy, a future of racial equality, gender equality, economic equality will elude us. — Angela Davis
In an ideal world, you could reunite the Pakistan-occupied part of Kashmir with the Indian-occupied part and restore the old borders. You could have both India and Pakistan agreeing to guarantee those borders, demilitarise the area, and to invest in it economically. In a sane world that would happen, but we don't live in a sane world. — Salman Rushdie
A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess. — A. Philip Randolph
A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody. — George Bernard Shaw
But let me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? Well then tell me how much of what I earn belongs to you - and why? — Walter E. Williams
The fusion (of economic functions) would compel nations to fuse their sovereignty into that of a single European State. — Jean Monnet
We always said that our struggle was not only against the British as representatives of colonialism, it was against all the evil that existed in India. The evil of the feudal system, the evil of the system based on caste, the evil of economic injustice. — Indira Gandhi
War is no longer made by simply analyzed economic forces if it ever was. War is made or planned now by individual men, demagogues and dictators who play on the patriotism of their people to mislead them into a belief in the great fallacy of war when all their vaunted reforms have failed to satisfy the people they misrule. — Ernest Hemingway
The inescapable fact is that when we build a society based on greed, selfishness, and ruthless competition, the fruits we can expect to reap are economic insecurity at home and international discord abroad. — Tommy Douglas
God, how patient are Thy poor! These corporations and masters of manipulation in finance heaping up great fortunes by a system of legalized extortion, and then exacting from the contributors-to whom a little means so much-a double share to guard the treasure! — Sayings
It's a different kind of economic recovery. The kind where bankers steal trillions and you don't have a job. — Alex Jones
If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind? — Frederic Bastiat
The more successfully a city mingles everyday diversity of uses and users in its everyday streets, the more successfully, casually (and economically) its people thereby enliven and support well-located parks that can thus give back grace and delight to their neighborhoods instead of vacuity. — Jane Jacobs
[Socialistic] economic planning, regulation, and intervention pave the way to totalitarianism by building a power structure that will inevitably be seized by the most power-hungry and unscrupulous. — Friedrich August von Hayek
No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems - of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind. — Thomas Sowell
Instead of building the peace by attacking injustices like starvation, disease, illiteracy, political and economic servitude, we spend a trillion dollars on war since 1946, until hatred and conflict have become the international preoccupation. — Daniel Berrigan
History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster. — Douglas MacArthur
Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty, which robs people of the freedom to satisfy hunger; or to achieve sufficient nutrition, or to obtain remedies for treatable illnesses or the opportunity to be adequatley clothed or sheltered, or to enjoy clean water or sanitary facilities. — Amartya Sen
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists. — Joan Robinson
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