Economy quotes
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"Human development, as an approach, is concerned with what I take to be the basic development idea: namely, advancing the richness of human life, rather than the richness of the economy in which human beings live, which is only a part of it."
"Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence."
"The automatic stabilizer is unemployment insurance, food stamps, additional coverage of Medicaid."
"Ignore the stock market, ignore the economy, and buy a business you understand."
"Be thrifty, but not covetous."
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"I have no friends and no enemies - only competitors."
"The more you own, the more you know you don't own."
"An economy growing at 7 percent per year, can and must find the resources to improve the lives of its millions of poor."
"Revenues should be increased not by increasing the tax rates on the individual but by building a bigger economy for everybody."
"Well, there are about 10 million children that aren't covered by health insurance. About 3 million qualify for Medicaid but don't get it, so we're going to reach out and bring more of those kids into the Medicaid program."
"Defense is superior to opulence."
"Giving triggers social cohesion. It's also the basis for an economy not based on money."
"Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others."
"No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else."
"With deregulation, one sector of the economy after another is "liberated" to capital's unmonitored authority. The very notion that there is a public interest is contested."
"A 'mixed economy' is a society in the process of committing suicide."
"Your income right now is a result of your standards, it is not the industry, it is not the economy."
"Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it."
"If you knew what was going to happen in the economy, you still wouldn't necessarily know what was going to happen in the stock market."
"Progressive economic policies lead to a sustainable economy."
"It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country."
"The Russians can't change us or significantly weaken us. They are a smaller country. They are a weaker country. Their economy doesn't produce anything that anybody wants to buy, except oil and gas and arms. They don't innovate. But they can impact us if we lose track of who we are."
"We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information."
"Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal. It was Mussolini's success in Italy, with his government-directed economy, that led the early New Dealers to say "But Mussolini keeps the trains running on time."
"Inflation is repudiation."
