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Most Famous Economics Quotes of All Time!

These Business quotes note how a firm's reputation can outlast even brilliant leadership when the underlying economics are weak. Others point to digital-era shifts, where scale and margins now matter more than simple revenue.

Economics is all about consumption. People either spend money now or they use financial instruments - like bonds, stocks and savings accounts - so they can spend more later.

Quotes by Adam Davidson

The anti-New Deal line is wrong as a matter of economics. F.D.R.'s spending programs did help the economy and created millions of new jobs.

Quotes by Adam Cohen

When I was a graduate student, I actually took a course in development economics and I thought it was the most boring thing in the world.

Quotes by Abhijit Banerjee

It's not about revenues: The fundamental economics in digital business is scale and margins. The top line has become the bottom line.

Quotes by Yuri Milner

Business Quotes

This paper was one of my digressions into abstract economics.

Quotes by William Vickrey

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

Warren Buffett

After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics.

Quotes by Vernon L. Smith

I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics.

Quotes by Vernon L. Smith

Historically, in India, the strange fact was that the equity owner was not taking as much hit as the lender. Therefore, if we restore the first principle of economics, that first the equity owner needs to take the hit and...

Quotes by Uday Kotak

Me Quotes

To me, economics doesn't need to be political.

Quotes by Trish Regan

One of the things I learned in 'Slavs!' is that it's much easier to talk about being gay than it is to talk about being a socialist. People are afraid of socialism, and plays that deal with economics are scarier...

Quotes by Tony Kushner

Economics has become as riveting as politics.

Quotes by Tina Brown

Washington is a place where politics and economics often aren't on speaking terms.

Quotes by Timothy Noah

Funnily enough, the Federal Reserve produced comics about monetary policy, and there is a good comic book guide to microeconomics and macroeconomics out there. But it is not really appropriate for younger readers; it is really aimed at economics students.

Quotes by Tim Harford

More Quotes

I am aiming my books at anybody with no economics background.

Quotes by Tim Harford

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

Quotes by Thomas Sowell

Economists tend to think they are much, much smarter than historians, than everybody. And this is a bit too much because at the end of the day, we don't know very much in economics.

Quotes by Thomas Piketty

The adverse economic events following the First World War turned me toward economics.

Quotes by Theodore Schultz

When we started looking at the bigger television ecosystem, you see that there's not that many serialized TV shows being made for TV. The economics are lousy: They don't sell into syndication well; they're expensive to produce.

Quotes by Ted Sarandos

People Quotes

It's critical to have a sound foundation in free-market economics and the Constitution. A great many Republicans in Washington don't have that foundation.

Quotes by Ted Cruz

Frequently Asked Questions

What is this Economics collection about?
These quotes reflect on economics from a few angles - business management, digital-era margins, and personal digressions into abstract economic theory, including market research grounded in real behavior.
Why do people search for economics quotes?
Readers often want a sharp line about business strategy or market truths to accompany discussion of finance or investing. The Business page covers that angle directly.
One quote says brilliant management can't save a business with fundamentally bad economics - what's the idea?
It suggests that no amount of skilled leadership can permanently fix a business built on flawed economic fundamentals, since the business's underlying reputation ultimately wins out.
Do these quotes touch on digital business specifically?
Yes, one argues that in digital business, scale and margins matter more than revenue alone, updating traditional economic thinking for a newer kind of market. The More page has related reflective business quotes.
How can I use economics quotes?
They work well for captions on business posts, finance discussions, or writing about market behavior and strategy. The People and Me pages add a more personal angle if needed.

A few thinkers admit their own economics writing began as an abstract digression, only later revealing basic truths about markets missed by the wider literature, a theme People quotes revisit often.