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“Americans are better off in a dynamic, free-enterprise-based economy that fosters economic growth, opportunity and upward mobility instead of a stagnant, government-directed economy that stifles job creation and fosters government dependency.”

Government Jobs Opportunity Growth Economy Economic Creation Enterprise Better Off Economic Growth Dependency Stagnant Free Enterprise Mobility Job Creation Upward Mobility

Author:Paul Ryan

“There are some things in the world we can't change- gravity, entropy, the speed of light, and our biological nature that requires clean air, clean water, clean soil, clean energy and biodiversity for our health and well-being. Protecting the biosphere should be our highest priority or else we sicken and die. Other things, like capitalism, free enterprise, the economy, currency, the market, are not forces of nature, we invented them. They are not immutable and we can change them. It makes no sense to elevate economics above the biosphere.”

“As an element in human progress, the right of private property, in importance, has taken first and almost only place in the current systems of law and of political economy. While admitting its great importance, we cannot conceal the fact that the writers on those subjects have wholly failed to distinguish between its use and its abuse, or to recognize its rational and equitable limits.”

“Do you realize that if we could increase just by 50 percent the number of adults who have a college degree, it would add $5 billion to the economy and it would result in a net income to the state of Arkansas of $340 million a year?”

Ifs Years States Realizing Results Numbers Millions Economy College Degrees Percent Adults Increase Add Billions Income Arkansas College Degree

Author:Mike Huckabee

“Oh, for that remarkable and complex economy of motherhood. Those back and forth generosities-where one day a mom ferries the kids to the swim meet, or a mom takes your kid off to the movies while you're sick with the flu. And the next week after baseball you have all the kids sleep over. Not to mention the friend with whom you freely have the throw-your-hands-in-the-air-I-surrender discussions of how to manage any of it.”

Kids Sleep Economy Week Mom One Day Baseball Sick Motherhood Manage Discussion Remarkable Swim

Author:Victoria Redel

“Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy.”

Humans States Brain Economy Influence Depends Human Experience Human Brain Global Economy Genome

Author:Sam Harris

“A lot of chefs don't have a natural sense of economy. I was with one guy the other day and I had to show him how to peel a turnip, because the way he was peeling turnips, he was throwing half of it in the garbage. It's not about being cheap. It's about being proper.”

Way Shows Guy Natural Half Economy Throwing Chef Garbage Peeling Turnips

Author:Daniel Boulud

“I'm cautious about the currency situation, oil pricing and the economies of some countries not performing as we are expecting.”

Country Motivational Situation Economy Oil Performing Expecting Currency Cautious Pricing

Author:Lakshmi

“The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the Universe. The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. It is, to spend for power, and not for pleasure.”

Soul Law Universe Pleasure Rooms Money Economy Symbols Maxims Counting Merchants Coarse

Book:Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life

Source: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life

“We can achieve the utmost in economies by engineering knowledge; we can conquer new fields by research; we can build plants and machines that shall stand among the wonders of the world; but unless we put the right man in the right place-unless we make it possible for our workers and executives alike to enjoy a sense of satisfaction in their jobs, our efforts will have been in vain.”

“Thrift is the really romantic thing; economy is more romantic than extravagance... thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste... if a man could undertake to make use of all the things in his dustbin, he would be a broader genius than Shakespeare.”

Ifs Men Use Would Be Economy Creative Genius Waste Poetic Thrift Extravagance Dustbin Really Romantic

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise. ... The cunningest hunger is hunted in turn, and what he leaves of his kill is meat for some other. That is the economy of nature, but with it all there is not sufficient account taken of the works of man. There is no scavenger that eats tin cans, and no wild thing leaves a like disfigurement on the forest floor.”

Source: Essential Mary Austin: A Selection of Mary Austin's Best Writing

“Architecture depends on Order, Arrangement, Eurythmy, Symmetry , Propriety , and Economy.”

Order Economy Depends Architecture Arrangements Symmetry Propriety

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“Economy denotes the the proper management of materials and of site, as well as a thrifty balancing of cost and common sense in the construction of works. ...the architect does not demand things which cannot be found or made ready without great expense. For example: it is not everywhere that there is plenty of pitsand, rubble, fir, clear fir, and marble... Where there is no pitsand, we must use the kinds washed up by rivers or by the sea... and other problems we must solve in similar ways.”

“The proper form of economy must be observed in building houses for each and every class.”

Form House Class Economy Building Building Houses

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“most economists, like doctors, are reluctant to make predictions, and those who make them are seldom accurate. The economy, like the human body, is a highly complex system whose workings are not thoroughly understood.”

Humans Body Economy Understood Economics Doctors Complexes Accurate Predictions Economist Human Body Reluctant Complex Systems

Author:Alice Rivlin

“The federal budget deficit is the biggest single impediment to revitalizing the American economy.”

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Author:Alice Rivlin

“The 'American dream' ... means an economy in which people who work hard can get ahead and each new generation lives better than the last one. The 'American dream' also means a democratic political system in which most people feel they can affect public decisions and elect officials who will speak for them. In recent years, the dream has been fading.”

“The problems with willpower are many, but they may hardly be noticed by the person focused narrowly on success. First, there is little economy of means; in systems thinking terms, we act without leverage. We attain our goals, but the effort is enormous and we may find ourselves exhausted and wondering if it was worth it when we have succeeded. Ironically, people hooked on willpower may actually look for obstacles to overcome, dragons to slay, and enemies to vanquish--to remind themselves and others of their own prowess.”

“In the attention economy, anyone trying to connect with an audience must treat the user's time as the ultimate resource.”

Trying Attention Audience Economy Resources Ultimate Treats Users

Author:Jakob Nielsen

“While, politically, a mixed economy preserves the semblance of an organized society with a semblance of law and order, economically it is the equivalent of the chaos that had ruled China for centuries: a chaos of robber gangs looting-and draining-the productive elements of the country.”

Country Law Order Economy Century Elements Chaos China Preserves Organized Productive Gang Law And Order Robbers Semblance Draining Looting Mixed Economy

Book:Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

“We recognize the force of the argument that the effects of war under modern conditions may be felt in the economy for years and years, and that if the war power can be used in days of peace to treat all the wounds which war inflicts on our society, it may not only swallow up all other powers of Congress but largely obliterate the Ninth and the Tenth Amendments as well.”

Ifs Years Wells May War Used Force Felt Power Economy Modern Conditions Effects Economics Argument Treats Constitution Congress Wounds Our Society Amendments Effects Of War

Author:William O. Douglas

“Sense can support herself handsomely in most countries on some eighteen pence a day; but for fantasy, planets and solar systems, will not suffice.”

Country Support Fantasy Economy Planets Eighteen Solar System

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“I can assure you that there is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. You learn that which is of inestimable importance that there are a great many people in the world who are just as clever as you are. You learn to put your trust, by and by, in an economy and frugality of the exercise of your powers, both moral and intellectual; and you very soon find out, if you have not found it out before, that patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.”

People Ifs World I Can Purpose Found Moral Economy Exercise Benefits Intellectual Weight Importance Clever Practicals Great Men Tenacity Cleverness Frugality

Book:Collected essays

Source: Collected essays

“Particularly when the war power is invoked to do things to the liberties of people, or to their property or economy that only indirectly affect conduct of the war and do not relate to the engagement of the war itself, the constitutional basis should be scrutinized with care. ... I would not be willing to hold that war powers may be indefinitely prolonged merely by keeping legally alive a state of war that had in fact ended. I cannot accept the argument that war powers last as long as the effects and consequences of war for if so they are permanent -- as permanent as the war debts.”

“Economic growth is not only unncessary, but ruinous.”

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Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Avarice is more opposite to economy than liberality.”

Economy Opposites Avarice Liberality

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Where there is a question of economy, I prefer privation.”

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Author:Sophie Swetchine

“It is clear that the building of models is not a purely mechanical process but requires skill of a high order - not merely mathematical skill but a sensitivity to the relative importance of different factors and a critical, almost an artistic, faculty in the selection of behaviour equations which are reasonable, tentative hypotheses in explaining the behaviour of actual economies.”

“Colleges don't teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past. An economist must know, besides his subject, ethics, logic, philosophy, the humanities and sociology, in fact everything that is part of how we live and react to one another.”

Knows Littles Philosophy Facts Past Humanity Teach Economy Subjects College Ethics Economics Logic Economist Sociology

Author:Bernard Baruch

“Take care to be an economist in prosperity. There is no fear of your being one in adversity.”

Care Economy Advice Adversity Prosperity Take Care Economist No Fear

Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

“The American economy is going to do fine. But it won't do fine every year and every week and every month. I mean, if you don't believe that, forget about buying stocks anyway... It's a positive-sum game, long term. And the only way an investor can get killed is by high fees or by trying to outsmart the market.”

Ifs Way Trying Years Believe Mean Long Games Term Forget Economy Week Fine Months Don't Believe Investing Long Term Buying Investors Fees American Economy Buying Stocks

Author:Warren Buffett

“The multiple failings of our flawed financial sector are jeopardizing, not only the retirement security of our nation's savers but the economy in which our entire society participates.”

Nations Economy Failing Security Investing Financial Retirement Multiple Flawed

Author:John C. Bogle

“In an economy, an act, a habit, an institution, or a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a series of effects. Of these effects, the first only is immediate; it manifests itself simultaneously with its cause - it is seen. The others unfold in succession - they are not seen. Now this difference is enormous, for it is often true that when the immediate consequence is favorable, the ultimate consequences are fatal, and the converse.”

Giving Firsts Law Causes Differences Economy Effects Birth Habit Consequence Ultimate Institutions Series Investing Enormous Succession Converses

Author:Frederic Bastiat

“People like the robber barons assumed that the doctrine of the survival of the fittest authenticated them as deserving power. You know, "I'm the richest. Therefore, I'm the best. God's in his heaven, etc." And that reaction of the robber barons was so irritating to people that it made it unfashionable to think of an economy as an ecosystem. But the truth is that it is a lot like an ecosystem. And you get many of the same results.”

“Contrary to popular belief, prosperity is an emotional state that has little to do with your wealth or the state of the economy. You can feel more prosperous in a one-room cottage than most wealthy people feel in a twenty-room mansion. Misers will hoard a lot of money and spendthrifts will spend whatever they have - you don't have to do either to feel prosperous. You may have to give up your secure, high-paying corporate job, however - and grow spiritually in the process.”

“It really gets me when the critics say I haven't done enough for the economy. I mean, look what I've done for the book publishing industry. You've heard some of the titles. 'Big Lies,' 'The Lies of George W. Bush,' 'The Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them.' I'd like to tell you I've read each of these books, but that'd be a lie.”

Looks Mean Book Done Enough Bigs Lying Economy Heard Havens Industry Critics Titles Liars Publishing Publishing Industry Book Publishing

Author:George W. Bush

“President Bush released his tax returns yesterday. He listed the economy as a liability. He gets to write that off.”

Writing President Economy Return Taxes Yesterday President Bush Liability Tax Returns

Author:Jay Leno

“President Bush went out touting his economic record in Ohio last week. Now this is a state that lost 225,000 jobs since Bush took office. You know, if Bush wants to tout his record, he should do it somewhere where the Bush economy has actually created jobs, like India, or Thailand, or China.”

Ifs Knows Want Should States Jobs Lasts Lost President Economy Records Week Economic Office India China President Bush Ohio Thailand

Author:Jay Leno

“I heard this today and I thought this was fascinating and interesting. President Bush has two daughters, two beautiful daughters, and they may work on their father's presidential campaign after they get out of college and I thought, well, that's a pretty good move because in this economy, they won't be able to find real jobs.”

“In his annual economic report to Congress President Bush said that the transfer of American jobs overseas is actually part of a positive transformation that will enrich the U.S. economy over time. So basically, losing your job to someone else can be a good thing. Of course we'll see how he feels about that in November.”

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Author:Jay Leno

“Priorities like winning the War on Terror and providing tax relief that will keep our economy growing strong.”

War Winning Strong Economy Growing Taxes Terror Priorities Relief Providing War On Terror

Author:Dennis Hastert

“In nature, all is managed for the best with perfect frugality and just reserve, profuse to none, but bountiful to all; never employing on one thing more than enough, but with exact economy retrenching the superfluous, and adding force to what is principal in everything.”

Enough Force Nature Perfect Money Economy One Thing Reserves Principal Superfluous Frugality Employing

Author:Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

“Economy is an excellent lure to betray people into expense.”

People Economy Excellent Expenses Betray Lure

Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

“Time is never more misspent than while we declaim against the want of it; all our actions are then tinctured with peevishness. The yoke of life is certainly the least oppressive when we carry it with good-humor; and in the shades of rural retirement, when we have once acquired a resolution to pass our hours with economy, sorrowful lamentations on the subject of time misspent and business neglected never torture the mind.”

Want Mind Action Life Is Time Hours Economy Subjects Torture Resolution Retirement Shade Our Actions Neglected Yoke Sorrowful Good Humor Lamentation

Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

“No economy ever stands still.”

Stills Economy

Author:Sir Henry Roy Forbes Harrod

“God, who is liberal in all his other gifts, shows us, by the wise economy of His providence, how circumspect we ought to be in the management of our time, for He never gives us two moments together.”

Giving Two Moments Shows Together Time Economy Wise Ought Management Our Time Providence

Author:Francois Fenelon

“Inflation is a form of hidden taxation which it is almost impossible to measure.”

Form Economy Impossible Taxation Inflation

Author:John J. Beckley

“Economy is in itself a great source of revenue.”

Economy Source Revenue

Author:Seneca the Younger

“The backlash against women's rights would be just one of several powerful forces creating a harsh and painful climate for women at work. Reagonomics, the recession, and the expansion of a minimum-wage service economy also helped, in no small measure, to slow and even undermine women's momentum in the job market. But the backlash did more than impede women's opportunities for employment, promotions, and better pay. Its spokesmen kept the news of many of these setbacks from women. Not only did the backlash do grievous damage to working women C it did on the sly.”

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