#economics

Sometime I'm going to do an essay called 'The Virtues of Amateurism' for all of those people who wish they earned their living in the arts. The market kills more artistic people than anything else. It's a world of safety out there, for most people. They want safety, the magazines and manufacturers give them safety, give them homogeneity, give them the familiar and comfortable, don't challenge them. ↗

— Robert James Waller

#economics #marketing #politics #science #art

We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#greed #greed

[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#capitalism #communism #economics #north-korea #obedience

Exchange, fair or unfair,always presupposes and includes the rule of the bourgeoisie. ↗

— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#commodity-production #communism #economics #communism

One of the Great Rules of Economics According to John Green If you are rich, you have to be an idiot not to stay rich. And if you are poor, you have to be really smart to get rich. ↗

— John Green

#poor #rich #rules #economics

If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#debt #economics #economics

When Alexander the Great visited the philosopher Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for him, Diogenes is said to have replied: ‘Yes, stand a little less between me and the sun.’ It is what every citizen is entitled to ask of his government. ↗

— Henry Hazlitt

#productivity #economics

All power is the same. Magic. Physical strength. Economic strength. Political strength. It all serves a single purpose-it gives its possessor a broader spectrum of choices. It creates alternative courses of action. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#economics

An economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#growth #economics

he who will not economize will have to agonize ↗

— Confucius

#ignorance #knowledge #suffering #wisdom #economics