Economy Quotes

"We must create policies that promote creativity, innovation and can adapt to today's changing, dynamic economy."

"A strong economy is the source of national strength."

"Only when we have economic growth can we push through fiscal reform."

"We cannot realize financial reconstruction and enhance social security without a strong economy."

"The government is determined to bring the program back on track, and proceed with the privatizations."

"No economy can tolerate the level of corruption seen in Nigeria without consequences."

"Economic growth is not sustainable without nation-building and, even of greater importance, state building."

"As we move to diversify our economy, we are particularly aware that we need oil to get out of oil."

"More than half the world's largest 100 economies are corporations. They have no loyalties to place or citizens."

"Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset."

"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest."

"Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt."

Herbert Hoover

“Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.”

“Recession is when a neighbour loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.”

"I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared."

Thomas Jefferson

"Mere parsimony is not economy."

Edmund Burke

“Economic growth and environmental protection are not at odds. They're opposite sides of the same coin if you're looking at longer-term prosperity.”

Henry Paulson

“Ecology is permanent economy.”

Sunderlal Bahuguna

“In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.”

Vandana Shiva

“The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the other way around.”

Gaylord Nelson

“Beauty rests on necessities. The line of beauty is the result of perfect economy.”