Quotes tagged with 'economics'

Most of my money I spent on boats and women. The rest I pissed away.
—Skipper Bob economics sailing

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
—John Kenneth Galbraith economics

The great merit of gold is precisely that it is scarce; that its quantity is limited by nature; that it is costly to discover, to mine, and to process; and that it cannot be created by political fiat or caprice.
—Henry Hazlitt economics

Democracy: The state of affairs in which you consent to having your pocket picked, and elect the best man to do it.
—Benjamin Lichtenberg economics government

If printing money would end poverty, printing diplomas would end stupidity.
—Javier Milei economics government

My kids are older now. They kinda upset with me. ... I tell them all the time. We ain't rich. I'm rich.
—Shaquille O'neal economics

One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government.
—Ron Paul economics government

Foreign aid goes from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries
—Rand Paul economics government

All depressions are caused by government interference and the cure is always offered to take more of the poison that caused the disaster. Depressions are not the result of a free economy.
—Ayn Rand economics

We don't have inflation because we are living too well, we have it because the government is living too well.
—Ronald Reagan economics government

I’d take gold over any one of your s***coins, any day...
—Art S. economics gold

I have never understood why it is ‘greed’ to want to keep the money you have earned but 'not greed' to want to take someone else’s money.
—Thomas Sowell economics

The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.
—Margaret Thatcher economics government

There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.
—Ludwig Von Mises economics