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Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return. -- Josh Billings
Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Economy forced me to become a vegetarian, but I finally starting liking it. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. -- Ronald Reagan
Economy, the poor man's mint. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
Economy is the thief of time. -- Ethel Mumford
Economy: cutting down other people's wages. -- J. B. Morton
Economy is essential to all good art. -- Jerry Seinfeld
Coining "Dismal Science" as a nickname for Political Economy -- Thomas Carlyle
Economy is in itself a great source of revenue. -- Seneca the Younger
Economy is an excellent lure to betray people into expense. -- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
Political Economy means that everybody except politicians must be economical. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Innovation is not the exclusive province of New Economy companies. -- John McKinley
Economy is a great revenue. [Lat., Magnum vectigal est parsimonia.] -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Economy is the art of making the most of life. -- Gary Becker
Architecture depends on Order, Arrangement, Eurythmy, Symmetry , Propriety , and Economy. -- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence. -- Alexander Pope
Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely. -- Thomas Huxley
Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse. -- Seneca the Younger
Economy and environment are the same thing. That is the rule of nature. -- Mollie Beattie
Economy forced me to become a vegetarian, but I finally starting liking it. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but in selection. -- Edmund Burke
Economy is a way of spending money without getting any pleasure out of it. -- Armand Salacrou
Economy is not baseball, where the game is always played by the same rules. -- Nate Silver
Economy is a way of spending money without getting any pleasure out of it -- Armand Salacrou
Political Economy or Economics is a study of mankind in the ordinary business of life. -- Alfred Marshall
Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow. -- Calvin Coolidge
Economy does not consist in saving the coal, but in using the time while it burns. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Economy, like grammar, is a very hard and tiresome study, after we are twenty years old. -- Lydia Maria Francis Child
Economy: As an adjective, cheap; As a noun, that which compels us to render ourselves as such. -- CrimethInc.
Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, but it cannot so be disposed of. -- Henry David Thoreau
In art economy is always beauty. -- Henry James
There can be no economy where there is no efficiency. -- Benjamin Disraeli
People do not understand what a great revenue economy is. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment. -- Dennis Weaver
With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability. -- Barack Obama
There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy. -- Fidel Castro
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. -- Edmund Burke
The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population. -- Bill Bryson
The way to turn our economy around is not by making rich people poorer, it's by making poor people richer. -- Marco Rubio
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. -- Hannah More
The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of society and creates equal opportunity. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. -- George Washington
According to the Bank of England the economy is growing too fast so interest rates must rise to counter the supposed inflationary threat. -- Harry Enfield
I tend to regard the Coase theorem as a stepping stone on the way to an analysis of an economy with positive transaction costs. -- Ronald Coase
In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of. -- Confucius
The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy. -- Milton Friedman
At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. On the cranky left, that is very annoying; I can see that. -- Bono
In today's knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the information technology sector, for example, pay 85 percent more than the private sector average. -- William J. Clinton
You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people. -- Zig Ziglar
Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire. -- Ludwig von Mises
Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do. -- Clara Barton
Monetary policy cannot do much about long-run growth, all we can try to do is to try to smooth out periods where the economy is depressed because of lack of demand. -- Ben Bernanke
The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom. -- Milton Friedman
Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It's the only insurance against irrelevance. It's the only guarantee of long-term customer loyalty. It's the only strategy for out-performing a dismal economy. -- Gary Hamel
Our workforce and our entire economy are strongest when we embrace diversity to its fullest, and that means opening doors of opportunity to everyone and recognizing that the American Dream excludes no one. -- Thomas Perez
When people come to my act any time after Thanksgiving, I usually say, You shouldn't be here. You should be shopping. Our economy depends on you! You should be out there buying stuff.' -- Lewis Black
The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics. -- Thomas Sowell
Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
Illegal immigration is crisis for our country. It is an open door for drugs, criminals, and potential terrorists to enter our country. It is straining our economy, adding costs to our judicial, healthcare, and education systems. -- Timothy Murphy
Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place. -- Frederic Bastiat
You would have thought that our first priority would be to ask what the ecologists are finding out, because we have to live within the conditions and principles they define. Instead, we've elevated the economy above ecology. -- David Suzuki
Republicans and Democrats are obsessed with making sure that illegal aliens are granted citizenship. The American people are not. They're concerned about jobs, the economy, debt. They're concerned about a plundering country. They're concerned about a decaying, dying country. -- Rush Limbaugh
To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we must give students the tools they need to succeed, including the opportunity to take a college entrance exam. -- Jennifer Granholm
There are great challenges before you, from the overwhelming nature of climate change to the unfairness of an economy that excludes so many from our collective wealth, and the changes necessary to build a more inclusive and generous Canada. I believe in you. -- Jack Layton
It is of no small commendation to manage a little well. To live well in abundance is the praise of the estate, not of the person. I will study more how to give a good account of my little, than how to make it more. -- Joseph Hall
Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. -- Milton Friedman
If you don't have a functioning financial system the world economy won't be revived. All the major economies have their responsibility to assist at a pace which is required to clean up the balance sheet of the banking system and to ensure that credit flows are resumed. -- Manmohan Singh
This election presents a stark choice - we can continue down the road of the Obama Democrats, more and more spending, debt and government control of the economy, or we can return to the founding principles of our nation - free markets, fiscal responsibility and individual liberty. -- Ted Cruz
The message from Wal-Mart today to the rest of the business community is there need not be any conflict between the environment and the economy. We will find the way not only to reconcile (those), but to find new profits and new opportunities as we do the right thing. -- Al Gore
Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds - it's the production of food and fiber from the world's land and waters. Without agriculture it is not possible to have a city, stock market, banks, university, church or army. Agriculture is the foundation of civilization and any stable economy. -- Allan Savory
Everyone should wake up and have a fresh-squeezed orange every day. By having a fresh glass of orange juice with American oranges, you are supporting the local economy, you have all the vitamin C you need in a day, and you support the environment because you don't use any plastic from bottles or bags. -- Jose Andres Puerta
Animals have come to mean so much in our lives. We live in a fragmented and disconnected culture. Politics are ugly, religion is struggling, technology is stressful, and the economy is unfortunate. What's one thing that we have in our lives that we can depend on? A dog or a cat loving us unconditionally, every day, very faithfully. -- Jon Katz
I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot. -- Barack Obama
Politics is about power. It is about the power of the state. It is about the power of the state as applied to individuals, the society in which they live and the economy in which they work. Most critically, our responsibility in this parliament is how that power is used: whether it is used for the benefit of the few or the many. -- Kevin Rudd
As our economy faces up to potential labour shortages due to our ageing population and as it moves to a new level of sophistication to compete with the rest of the world, we're going to need every Australian on board pulling their weight, rejoining the workforce, gaining new skills. Writing off individuals and communities suffering from poverty just creates a dead weight for our economy to drag along. -- Julia Gillard
economy spoils pleasure -- Giacomo Casanova
It's the economy, stupid. -- William J. Clinton
Taiwan is a major economy. -- William C. Kirby
No economy ever stands still. -- Sir Henry Roy Forbes Harrod
There is no pure free-market economy. -- Jeane Kirkpatrick
We want a strong, growing economy -- John Baird
This economy is on life support. -- Herman Cain
Cheap booze is a false economy. -- Christopher Hitchens
The economy is like a machine. -- Ray Dalio
Gaming is the backbone of Nevada's economy. -- Kenny Guinn
Happiness does not require an expanding economy -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Socialism is the renunciation of rational economy. -- Ludwig von Mises
Trust is what monetizes the attention economy. -- David Amerland
Everybody is talking today about the economy. -- Joschka Fischer
A global economy requires a global currency. -- Paul Volcker
The economy is a thoughtless weather system. -- Kurt Vonnegut
We are currently gradually stabilizing our economy. -- Vladimir Putin
I want to see the economy rebound. -- Bob Corker
Lack of skill dictates economy of style. -- Joey Ramone
Gaming is the backbone of Nevadas economy. -- Kenny Guinn
The economy is a very sensitive organism. -- Hjalmar Schacht
The statists want to control the economy. -- Grover Norquist
When women participate in the economy everyone benefits. -- Hillary Clinton
If the economy grows, housing gets better, quicker. -- Jamie Dimon
Our country's economy is strong, diversified, and resilient. -- Justin Trudeau
Progressive economic policies lead to a sustainable economy. -- Keith Ellison
The world economy diffuses rather than concentrates wealth. -- Robert Gilpin
Small businesses are the lifeblood of our economy. -- Tom Vilsack
Some mythological fat asswipe drives our national economy. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence. -- Brooks Stevens
Clinton took very tough decisions on the economy. -- Sidney Blumenthal
We live in an information and knowledge-based economy. -- Bobby Scott
Avarice is more opposite to economy than liberality. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I stand for strict economy in governmental affairs. -- Harry F. Byrd
Cinema has become a global economy, totally international. -- Lasse Hallstrom
It becomes a cannibalization of your pre-existing economy -- John Warren Kindt
The Chinese economy has huge potential and flexibility. -- Li Keqiang
In a knowledge-driven economy, talk is real work. -- Thomas H. Davenport
The economy is showing encouraging signs of recovery. -- George Voinovich
In the dog-eat-dog economy, the Doberman is boss. -- Edward Abbey
A dynamic economy begins with a good education. -- Bob Taft
Knowledge is the best economy we can have. -- Greejesh Prakash
World needs a new order of modern economy. -- Toba Beta

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