“Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanction of political authority is not necessary for its existence. Certain commodities came to be money quite naturally, as the result of economic relationships that were independent of the power of the state.” StatesGovernmentPoliticalCertainResultsMoneyExistencePowerEconomicProductsAuthorityEconomicsIndependentInventionCommodityLegislationSanctions Author:Carl Menger
“We need to change society's ordering principle from economic to humanitarian values, from money as the bottom line to love as the bottom line.” LoveNeedsValuesChangeLinesMoneyPrinciplesSocietyEconomicBottomHumanitarianBottom LineNeed A ChangeLove Of Money Author:Marianne Williamson
“The people who are filing for bankruptcy in increasing numbers every year, it's not the poorest. It's not the people at the economic fringes. It's people who worked hard and played by the rules.” PeopleYearsHardMoneyNumbersEconomicMiddle ClassFringePoorestBankruptcyFiling Author:Elizabeth Warren
“Why, just a couple of economic seasons ago, was idle cash considered an indication of bad management or lazy management? Because it meant that management didn't have this money out at work ... Now look. Presto! A new fashion! Cash is back in! Denigrating liquidity has dropped quicker than hemlines. A management is now saluted if it has some cash, some liquidity, doesn't have to go to the money market at huge interest rates to get the wherewithal to keep going and growing. Along with Ben Franklin, my father and your father would understand and applaud this new economic fashion.” IfsLooksFatherInterestMoneyGrowingEconomicFashionHugeCoupleSeasonsManagementRateLazyKeep GoingCashIdleIndicationFranklinInterest RateLiquidityBen Franklin Author:Malcolm Forbes
“The Congressional Budget Office is a reactionary socialist institution which does not believe in economic growth, does not believe in innovation, and does not believe in data that it has not internally generated.” BelieveDoeRealityPoliticalPoliticsGrowthLeadershipMoneyPartyTechnologyEconomicPolicyOfficeCapitalismInnovationInstitutionsIndividualityIdeologyDataBudgetsFree SpeechSocialistPolitical PartiesFree MarketEconomic GrowthReactionariesPartisanship Author:Newt Gingrich
“Putting women's traditional needs at the center of social planning is not reverse sexism. It's the best way to reverse the increasing economic vulnerability of men and women alike.” MenWayNeedsRealityPoliticsSocialCommunityWorkJusticeMoneyFamilyClassHistoryGenerationsEconomicHuman NaturePolicyEqualEthicsMen And WomenCapitalismStrategyPlanningBest WayTraditionalIdeologyVulnerabilitySexismReverseEqual Rights Author:Stephanie Coontz
“Central banks have gotten out of the central banking business and into the central planning business, meaning that they are devoted to raising up-if they can-economic growth and employment through the dubious means of suppressing interest rates and printing money. The nice thing about gold is that you can't print it.” IfsMeanGrowthInterestMoneyNiceEconomicGoldRatePlanningEmploymentPrintDevotedBankingEconomic GrowthPrintingNice ThingsInterest RateCentral BanksDubiousSuppressingCentral BankingCentral PlanningPrinting Money Author:James Grant
“We shall take whatever action is necessary to contain the growth of the money supply. The government, unlike so many of its predecessors, will face up to economic realities.” RealityGovernmentActionFacesGrowthMoneyEconomicPredecessors Book:As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations