Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.
David HareIndia’s trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamEconomy forced me to become a vegetarian, but I finally starting liking it.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamForeigners don’t want to invest any more in France – and this is not working.
Karl LagerfeldTaxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.
Terry PratchettAmericans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.
Bill GatesInnovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.
Bill GatesWhen you bring in multi-brand retail items into the country, you’re not just bringing the products, but you’re also harming local manufacturers.
Narendra ModiI think my top salary was maybe in 1966. I made $17,000 and 11 of that came from selling other players‘ equipment.
Bob UeckerNobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.
Bill GatesStopping illegal immigration would mean that wages would have to rise to a level where Americans would want the jobs currently taken by illegal aliens.
Thomas SowellThe economy’s always been the engine for our national security.
Jim MattisPutin sought to destabilize Ukraine’s economy.
Joe BidenYou know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, ‚Joey, the guy in Olyphant’s out of work, it’s an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law’s out of work, it’s a recession. When you’re out of work, it’s a depression.‘
Joe BidenBuilding new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs.
Barack ObamaCutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you’re flying high at first, but it won’t take long before you feel the impact.
Barack ObamaFuel prices are at the center of our lives. They affect our ability to travel, stay warm, and feed ourselves.
Robert KiyosakiAre we a nation that educates the world’s best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?
Barack ObamaYes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.
Barack ObamaWhen Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office, he was not particularly popular. He was more or less average. He severely harmed the American economy.
Noam ChomskyAn economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamFood Stamp recipients didn’t cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did.
Barack ObamaIt is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
Edmund BurkeTo paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world’s strongest economy.
Ronald ReaganEven if the economy crashes, we will still burn oil.
Robert KiyosakiEven people on the liberal side are starting to worry about going off a fiscal cliff.
Clint EastwoodThe love of economy is the root of all virtue.
George Bernard ShawWhen America stopped importing from China, China stopped importing from the rest of the world. This affects Asian countries as well as Australia, Brazil, and other suppliers of raw materials.
Robert KiyosakiFor me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing – stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses – makes more money for me than making movies.
Jackie ChanJapan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That’s a statement in and of itself.
Dan QuayleA business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
Henry FordDo not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
Henry David ThoreauMerchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
Thomas JeffersonDuring most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school.
Kurt VonnegutI just think that – when a country needs more income and we do, we’re only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that – that – when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.
Warren BuffettMore businesses should be following Apple’s stance in encouraging more investment in sustainability.
Richard BransonThere is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.
Terry PratchettThe circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
James MadisonFirst, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?
Barack ObamaCapitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
Fidel CastroEven if the government spends itself into bankruptcy and the economy still does not recover, Keynesians can always say that it would have worked if only the government had spent more.
Thomas SowellIt’s important that we invest in America – literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can’t let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.
Madeleine AlbrightWhile the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
Karl MarxThere can be economy only where there is efficiency.
Benjamin DisraeliTo rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.
ConfuciusI feel that the best companies are started not because the founder wanted a company but because the founder wanted to change the world… If you decide you want to found a company, you maybe start to develop your first idea. And hire lots of workers.
Mark ZuckerbergWe didn’t become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn’t come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn’t do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.
Barack ObamaIf the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.
Noam ChomskyBefore the 1970s, banks were banks. They did what banks were supposed to do in a state capitalist economy: they took unused funds from your bank account, for example, and transferred them to some potentially useful purpose like helping a family buy a home or send a kid to college.
Noam ChomskyFolks, you’re the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks, you sacrificed to keep your companies open. Because of your productivity, the combined auto companies have committed to invest another $23 billion in expansion in America.
Joe BidenJobs are a centuries-old concept created during the Industrial Revolution. Despite the reality that we’re now deep in the Information Age, many people are studying for, or working at, or clinging to the Industrial Age idea of a safe, secure job.
Robert KiyosakiWe hire people who want to make the best things in the world.
Steve JobsI will cut taxes – cut taxes – for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.
Barack ObamaBy 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.
Bill GatesIf he’s got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don’t hire him.
Lou HoltzNo one saw the recession coming.
Gordon RamsayEngland is a nation of shopkeepers.
Napoleon BonaparteThe very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
Noam ChomskyGovernment’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Ronald ReaganThe dollar has lost over 90 percent of its value since the Fed was created.
Robert Kiyosaki