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| An economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough revenue to balance our budget, just as it will never produce enough jobs or enough profits |
| John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
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| Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values. |
| Abraham Maslow |
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| Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised. |
| John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| Economy is too late at the bottom of the purse |
| Seneca |
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| Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way |
| Will Durant |
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| 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, subsidise it |
| Ronald Reagan |
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| 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 |
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| Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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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. |
| Graham Greene |
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| To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy. |
| Ronald Reagan |
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| 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 |
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| True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made. |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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| We are endeavoring, too, to reduce the government to the practice of a rigorous economy, to avoid burdening the people, and arming the magistrate with patronage of money, which might be used to corrupt and undermine the principles of our government |
| Thomas Jefferson |
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| We did it [Disneyland], in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year. |
| Walt Disney |
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