Explore Quotes on Economy

Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.

Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.

Two things are bad for the heart - running up stairs and running down people.

When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.

We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.

The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

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.

The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

The world has physical limits that we are already encountering, but our economy operates as if no physical limits exist.

It is something of a miracle that individual selfish decisions (in a market economy) must lead to a collectively efficient outcome.

In a perfect world what poor countries at the lowest rungs of economic development need is not a multi-party democracy, but in fact a decisive benevolent dictator to push through the reforms required to get the economy moving

In an economy where the only certainty is uncertainty, the one sure source of lasting competitive advantage is knowledge.

Harry Reid was talking about soup lines, and Hillary Clinton was talking about the economy being on the verge of collapse. Yet, in the same breath, they say that Social Security is rock solid, and there's no crisis there. How are you going to work-you said you're going to reach out to these people-how are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?

The attacks on Sept. 11 really sent a shock wave through our economy, and the full reverberation of that is not yet known.

We need a leader who can lower taxes, protect small businesses, and increase job creation nationwide. I have no doubt that John McCain appreciates the important role Hispanics play not only in the economy, but in our nation's culture as well -- he has a track record with Hispanics for more than 20 years as a senator from Arizona. The American people need a strong leader who has the experience and the judgment to be the next President of the United States, and that man is John McCain.