If your outgo exceeds your income your upkeep will be your downfall. – Anon.
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
It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic. – Russell Baker
Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits. – Edmund Burke
We are enjoying sluggish times and not enjoying them very much. – George Bush
Economics and politics are the governing powers of life today, and thats why everything is so screwy. – Joseph Campbell
The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history. – Fidel Castro
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores. – Charles Caleb Colton
There can be economy only where there is efficiency. – Benjamin Disraeli
The term bail-out is deceptive. They have people come up with euphenisms to hide reality – James Dye
Members of Congress were told they could face martial law if they didnt pass the bailout bill. This will not be the last time. – James Dye
I couldve told you this was gonna happen 8 years ago because it is on purpose. – James Dye
Everyone is always in favor of general economy and particular expenditure. – Sir Anthony Eden
Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ask five economists and youll get five different explanations six if one went to Harvard. – Edgar R. Fiedler
For economist the real world is often a special case. – Edgar R. Fiedler
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
No nation was ever ruined by trade. – Benjamin Franklin
