Economy Quotes & Sayings

Economy Quotes & Sayings

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The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn. - Henry Graham Greene



The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied, but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing. - John Berger



A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical macroeconomic theory, markets depend only on moods: specifically, the mood of the men in the pinstripes, also known as the Boys on the Street. When the Boys are in a good mood, the market thrives; when they get scared or sullen, it is time for each one of us to look into the retail apple business. - Barbara Ehrenreich



The love of economy is the root of all virtue. - George Bernard Shaw



I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship. - Ralph Waldo Emerson



To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke. - Alvin Toffler



I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared. - Thomas Jefferson



People want economy and they will pay any price to get it. - Lido Anthony 'Lee' Iacocca



Forgiveness is the economy of the heart, forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. - Hannah More