Home / Topics / Economy Quotes

Economy Quotes

Browse 6050 quotes about Economy.

Economy Quotes

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

Growth Economy Economic Economic Growth

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“It is much easier to make intellectual messes than it is to clarify complicated issues, especially when real solutions would challenge the status quo and require much careful thought across many fields of knowledge. Problems of climatic change, biotic impoverishment, population growth, and the choices to be made by various technologies and the transition to a sustainable and decent society with an economy that works over the long-term are difficult, complex, and intertwined problems with many possible answers.”

Source: The Last Refuge: Patriotism, Politics, and the Environment in an Age of Terror

“Criticism of growth arose with the discovery that growth beyond a certain point is destructive of the earth. We are already using resources much faster than they can be replenished. We are producing wastes much faster than nature's sinks can process them. The growth economy will end. The only questions are when its end will come, and whether humanity will be able to survive its demise.”

Ends Able Earth Certain Humanity Process Growth Economy Waste Discovery Resources Criticism Environmental Faster Destructive Sustainability Demise Using Resources

Book:Sustaining the Common Good: A Christian Perspective on the Global Economy

Source: Sustaining the Common Good: A Christian Perspective on the Global Economy

“The government must nurture an eco-system where the economy is primed for growth; and growth promotes all-rounddevelopment. Where development is employment-generating ; and employment is enabled by skills. Where skills are synced with production; and production is benchmarked to quality. Where quality meets global standards; and meeting global standards drives prosperity. Most importantly, this prosperity is for the welfare of all. That is my concept ofeconomic good governance and all round development.”

Government Growth Quality Economy Development Skills Standards Concepts India Meetings Rounds Prosperity Productions Employment Welfare Nurture Governance Eco Good Governance

Author:Narendra Modi

“Congress must also enact pro-growth policies that encourage the economy to expand: like making tax relief permanent and repealing the death tax.”

Growth Economy Policy Taxes Congress Permanent Relief Repealing

Author:Michael Steele

“Well, you can, but tell you this, that when you've got an economy that is growing at 4.9% it is the fastest growth over the last 12 months we've seen in 20 years.”

Years Wells Lasts Growth Economy Growing Months

Author:Donald Evans

“We all know that China is industrializing at a growth rate of 8 to 10 percent per year. China is on track to pass the U.S. as the largest economy in the world in 20 to 25 years, and China is determined to give its people a chance at this high standard of living that we enjoy.”

People Knows World Giving Years Enjoy Growth Chance Economy Standards Percent Rate Track China Determined Standards Of Living High Standards

Author:John Olver

“We fought hard for socialism in a devastating war of independence and reunification. To build an affluent and prosperous society, we chose the path of a socialist market economy. We have achieved strong economic growth, and yet the sense of solidarity in our society has not been lost. This is very important to people.”

“I am very pleased to see this project moving ahead. The Hamilton Airport serves as an international gateway to south-western Ontario. This new facility will allow the airport to expand its air cargo business and help strengthen the local economy. This is another example of Ontario's commitment to public infrastructure that contributes to long-term growth for the region.”

“And I am convinced that a single focus on preserving the purchasing power of the dollar, in effect, guarding against inflation or deflation, actually creates a solid foundation for the greatest job growth and the strongest economy that America can have.”

Jobs America Growth Economy Focus Effects Foundation Dollars Convinced Strongest Inflation Purchasing Guarding Solid Foundation Purchasing Power Deflation Job Growth

Author:Kevin Brady

“Hold on to your wallets folks because with the passage of this trillion-dollar baby, the Democrats will be poised to spend as much as $3 trillion in your tax dollars. Taxpayers will be on the hook for spending that will stimulate the debt, stimulate the growth of government, but will do little to stimulate jobs or the economy.”

Littles Government Jobs Growth Economy Baby Taxes Dollars Democrat Folks Debt Spending Passages Hook Taxpayers Wallets Tax Dollars

Author:Christopher Bond

“To speak of 'limits to growth' under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society.”

Speak Growth Economy Limits Warrior Meaningless Warfare Market Economy Manipulative Multinationals

Author:Murray Bookchin

“An economy that adds value through information, ideas, and intelligence-the Three I Economy-offers a way out of the apparent clash between material growth and environmental resources.”

Way Ideas Values Three Growth Economy Information Materials Offers Resources Add Environmental Clash

Author:Charles Handy

“Having taxed the economy so hard, it has created a big depression. So we have to create a tax system that could really help growth and investment that is the first thing.”

Firsts Hard Helping Bigs Growth Economy Taxes Investment Tax System

Author:Eva Kaili

“The idea that a relatively fixed group of privileged people might shape the economy and government for their own benefit goes against the American grain. Nevertheless, the owners and top-level managers in large income-producing properties are far and away the dominant power figures in the United States. Their corporations, banks, and agribusinesses come together as a corporate community that dominates the federal government in Washington. Their real estate, construction, and land development companies form growth coalitions that dominate most local governments.”