Top Economy Quotes

Savers have to be punished so debtors can be saved.Why? Because if debtors are rescued, that makes it possible for more debts to be issued in the future.And why is that important? Because the banking...

They're so broke that they've actually cut essential services. In many places, they've cut policemen, because, who the fuck needs them? Or firemen, son of a bitch, it's much more fun watching somethin...

Economy Definition

(n.) The management of domestic affairs; the regulation and government of household matters; especially as they concern expense or disbursement; as, a careful economy.

(n.) Orderly arrangement and management of the internal affairs of a state or of any establishment kept up by production and consumption; esp., such management as directly concerns wealth; as, political economy.

(n.) The system of rules and regulations by which anything is managed; orderly system of regulating the distribution and uses of parts, conceived as the result of wise and economical adaptation in the author, whether human or divine; as, the animal or vegetable economy; the economy of a poem; the Jewish economy.

(n.) Thrifty and frugal housekeeping; management without loss or waste; frugality in expenditure; prudence and disposition to save; as, a housekeeper accustomed to economy but not to parsimony.

There is coming a day, when freedom will just be a essence of the mind, an inner dwelling that was once physically attainable. They will tell you where you can live, and what you can wear and drive, w...

If your expenditure brings you poverty, then you may call yourself a poor but the world will call you a fool.

The bankers and financiers are badly overplaying their hands, again, and people are starting to catch on to the scam.Real wealth is tangible things produced with tangible effort. Loans made out of thi...

When water fountains start charging to drink, then you know we have a problem.

There's very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me two years ago saying she'd been in a seminar in which the teacher spent two hours saying that Walt Whi...

A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character

Those who benefit from unearned privilege are too often quick to discount those who don't.

Pull approaches differ significantly from push approaches in terms of how they organize and manage resources. Push approaches are typified by "programs" - tightly scripted specifications of activities...

A jellyfish is little more than a pulsating bell, a tassel of trailing tentacles and a single digestive opening through which it both eats and excretes - as regrettable an example of economy of design...

[Conventional wisdom] very heavily tends to reflect the preferences and the interests of the elite.

We can't all be bakers or chefs. Many of us have modest ambitions. But we can all buy a piece of the pie.

Everyone is so locked into the current way of doing things, they never see the larger picture or other, more responsible and efficient possibilities. A REAL economy is always wanting to limit consumpt...

The way of the consumerist culture is to spend so much energy chasing happiness that it has none left to be happy.

It is very important to concentrate on hitting the U.S. economy through all means possible

The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class.

Until you realize how easily it is for your mind to be manipulated, you remain the puppet of someone else's game.

Try as you might, you'll never be able to please an environmentalist. You can stop using coal to heat your house, you can stop throwing out bottles and cans, you can have every factory in Canada shut...

Don't tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value.