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If your outgo exceeds your income your upkeep will be your downfall.
-Anon.
attributed to Bill Earle, usually referred to as an old saying
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Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.
-Hannah Arendt
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For the past 15 years or so, British governments have tried to persuade the rest of us that the best judges of the national interest are...businessmen. This may be a ridiculous statement, but -- ominously -- fewer and fewer people laugh at it.
-Neil Ascherson
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The notion that big business and big labor and big government can sit down around a table somewhere and work out the direction of the American economy is at complete variance with the reality of where the American economy is headed. I mean, it's like dinosaurs gathering to talk about the evolution of a new generation of mammals.
-Bruce Babbit
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It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.
-Russell Baker
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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
-Edmund Burke
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Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
-Edmund Burke
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We are enjoying sluggish times and not enjoying them very much.
-George Bush
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Economics and politics are the governing powers of life today, and that's why everything is so screwy.
-Joseph Campbell
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The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history.
-Fidel Castro
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People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
-Charles Caleb Colton
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My other piece of advice, Copperfield, said Mr. Micawber, you know. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the god of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and - and in short you are for ever floored. As I am!
-Charles Dickens
David Copperfield
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There can be economy only where there is efficiency.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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The term bail-out is deceptive. They have people come up with euphenisms to hide reality
-James Dye
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Members of Congress were told they could face martial law if they didn't pass the bailout bill. This will not be the last time.
-James Dye
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I could've told you this was gonna happen 8 years ago because it is on purpose.
-James Dye
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Everyone is always in favor of general economy and particular expenditure.
-Sir Anthony Eden
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Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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According to the Bank of England the economy is growing too fast so interest rates must rise to counter the supposed inflationary threat. In lay terms, I interpret this to mean that people are working much harder, causing economic growth, and they're in danger of spending their money, which is what the recession-hit shops want them to do. But the Bank and the City seem to think this is wrong, and that if people work harder they should be punished by having their mortgages increased.
-Harry Enfield
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Ask five economists and you'll get five different explanations six if one went to Harvard.
-Edgar R. Fiedler
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For economist the real world is often a special case.
-Edgar R. Fiedler
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The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value
-Irving Fisher
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Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?
-John W. Foster
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No nation was ever ruined by trade.
-Benjamin Franklin
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Books about Economics
