Top 555 Economy Quotes

The last thing they want is a revitalized economy now. I’m not saying the Democrats don’t want a strong economy. Don’t misunderstand. They just don’t want it now.
Rush Limbaugh
When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office, he was not particularly popular. He was more or less average. He severely harmed the American economy.
Noam Chomsky
Small businesses drive this economy and it is unacceptable that the President’s budget proposal does not give them the tools they need to be successful.
Solomon Ortiz
We must give less money to these provinces, like my own province of Quebec, and give them the right incentive to develop their own natural resources and their economy.
Maxime Bernier
The stress on the financial system in the fall of 2007 was significant, but not so significant as to threaten the overall stability of the U.S. economy, although it did lead to the beginning of a recession at the end of 2007.
Ben Bernanke
It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system.
Samora Machel
I will always vote what I have promised, and always vote the Constitution, as well as I will not vote for one single penny that isn’t paid for, because debt is the monster, debt is what’s going to eat us up and that is why our economy is on the brink.
Ron Paul
People like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have been very busy educating America about just how much socialism we have, from Social Security to Medicare to public schools to public universities, and how much we love that. The truth is that there is no pure socialist or capitalist economy on earth.
Lawrence O’Donnell
As a general rule, durable-goods production tends to be the most volatile sector of the economy. Since people usually have a stock of durables in use, when times get tight, they put off new purchases. What seem like small cutbacks to the end buyer translate into big swings for the producer.
Virginia Postrel
The global economy is in pretty good shape.
John W. Snow
As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.
Caroline Kennedy
Do you realize that if we could increase just by 50 percent the number of adults who have a college degree, it would add $5 billion to the economy and it would result in a net income to the state of Arkansas of $340 million a year?
Mike Huckabee
The number of electrical injuries cared for in hospitals in the US is estimated at as many as 50,000; the cost of these injuries on the US economy is estimated at over one billion dollars per year.
Richard Neal
Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.
Bill Gates
Labour’s priorities are clear: jobs and the economy must come first; not party interests or ideological fantasies.
Keir Starmer
You’ve got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in the modern economy and society and having a policy response to that.
Patricia Hewitt
The notion of having work-life harmony in a highly competitive economy is a first-class topic.
Satya Nadella
Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message.
Charles Vest
Music is in Mississippi’s DNA, whether it’s the blues, country music, folk, or rock ‘n’ roll. It’s not just a source of cultural pride, but also a strong contributor to our economy.
Cindy Hyde-Smith
Small business is the backbone of our economy. I’m for big business, too. But small business is where the jobs are generated.
Michele Bachmann
I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I did not have the resources to put in place the educational and social changes about which I cared to much; I made only a beginning, and it was not enough.
John Major
A strong economy causes an increase in the demand for housing; the increased demand for housing drives real-estate prices and rentals through the roof. And then affordable housing becomes completely inaccessible.
William Baldwin
A winner-takes-all economy that offers only limited access to the middle class is a recipe for democratic malaise and dereliction.
Klaus Schwab
Traditional models of work only let us cross out the needs on the very bottom of the pyramid – basic sustenance. On the flipside, independent employment within the network of the new sharing economy addresses our needs for a sense of community and belonging, autonomy and respect, creativity and problem solving.
Leah Busque
We have the capacity to create a remarkably different economy: one that can restore ecosystems and protect the environment while bringing forth innovation, prosperity, meaningful work, and true security.
Paul Hawken
I think there's a lot of merit in an international econ

I think there’s a lot of merit in an international economy and global markets, but they’re not sufficient because markets don’t look after social needs.
George Soros
In order for fashion to progress, we have to always be willing to invest in someone or something new and embrace risks, regardless of the economy.
Renzo Rosso
Certainly, I know from my own work at the Department of Transport the potential chaos that will follow a ‘no deal’ Brexit. It will cause disruption, delay and deep damage to our economy.
Jo Johnson
We live in an information and knowledge-based economy.
Bobby Scott
We aren’t leveraging this great economic engine, the strongest economy in the world. And yet we have this totally weak response. We import $500 billion a year more in products than we export.
Jennifer Granholm
In a financial crisis, only the Fed, as the lender of last resort, might stand between our economy and financial catastrophe. We must leave the Fed with the flexibility to provide liquidity in order to stop a financial panic.
Stephen A. Schwarzman
So now we are pushing economic reform, bank reform and enterprise reform. So we can finish that reform this year, in September or October. Then our economy may be much more, you know, normalized.
Kim Dae Jung
For every $5 that Boston’s economy sends up to Beacon Hill, the state gives only $1 back to us.
Thomas Menino
Gaming is the backbone of Nevada’s economy.
Kenny Guinn
Increasing minimum wage doesn’t build a stronger economy.
Karen Handel
I think back a little bit when President Bush was elected President and what kind of economy he inherited from the Clinton administration. The economy was going down. It was not doing well.
Wayne Allard
I feel that my father’s greatest legacy was the people he inspired to get involved in public service and their communities, to join the Peace Corps, to go into space. And really that generation transformed this country in civil rights, social justice, the economy and everything.
Caroline Kennedy
America isn’t Congress. America isn’t Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.
Barack Obama
In the ‘Nike Economy,’ there are no standards, no borders and no rules. Clearly, the global economy isn’t working for workers in China and Indonesia and Burma any more than it is for workers here in the United States.
John Sweeney
Do we go back and be the mushy middle party? Or do we have conservative, principled ideas for all the issues of the day, from the economy, from foreign policy, defence, security, that’s the choice.
Erin O’Toole
Small businesses are the backbone of our economy.
Ellen Tauscher
In the long run, outsourcing is another form of trade that benefits the U.S. economy by giving us cheaper ways to do things.
Janet Yellen
When millions of law-abiding people achieve citizenship, our communities benefit, and the U.S. economy grows and strengthens.
Tony Cardenas
Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.
Thomas Huxley
Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It’s the only insurance against irrelevance. It’s the only guarantee of long-term customer loyalty. It’s the only strategy for out-performing a dismal economy.
Gary Hamel
I have said many times that it’s a mistake to bet against the long-term health of the U.S. equity markets because it’s a mistake to bet against the long-term health of the U.S. economy.
Gerry Schwartz
A country is more than an economy. We’re a civic society.
Steve Bannon
The strong economy means there is fiscal firepower and we need to use that to show people the benefits of the free-market system.
Matt Hancock
I think we’re in the beginning of a bull market. When a bull market begins, nine months later the economy turns around.
Sumner Redstone
Any discrimination, like sharp turns in a road, becomes critical because of the tremendous speed at which we are traveling into the high-tech world of a service economy.
Clarence Thomas
The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly human goal.
Pope Francis
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart… forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
Hannah More
The economy works best when better ideas win out over worse ideas, harder work wins out over less work, when it’s a fair fight in the marketplace.
Adam Davidson
Our workers comp debt is the Achilles heel of our state’s economy, and I firmly believe that in order to create more good jobs in West Virginia this system must be fixed and it must be fixed now. We cannot afford to wait even one more minute.
Joe Manchin
By preventing pneumonia and other diseases, we are giving men, women and children the chance to live healthy productive lives and participate in the global economy. In doing so, we are not only enhancing their futures – we are enhancing our own.
Mandy Moore