• In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Ye

  

  Warren Buffett

  BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

  3.0 · 29 votes · 53 reads

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• In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.

  

  William J. Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.4 · 21 votes · 196 reads

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• In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good or equally bad. It is the narrowest decisions that are most ardently debated. If the world is lucky enough to enjoy

  J

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  EconomistAmerican1908 · 20th century

  3.5 · 8 votes · 145 reads

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• Increased jobs are the consequence of increased trade. Increasing jobs more than output implies a fall in productivity and standards of living. That surely cannot be our goal.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  3.9 · 10 votes · 119 reads

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• Indeed, in general, healthy investment returns cannot be sustained in a weak economy, and of course it is difficult to save for retirement or other goals without the income from a job.

  B

  Ben Bernanke

  EconomistAmerican1953 · 20th century

  5.0 · 26 votes · 27 reads

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• Interest rates do not have to be identical across the whole euro area, but it is unacceptable if major differences arise from broken capital markets or concern about a euro area break-up.

  

  Mario Draghi

  EconomistItalian1947 · 20th century

  4.8 · 11 votes · 96 reads

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• It is very difficult to predict when a bond crisis could happen.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  3.0 · 34 votes · 73 reads

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• It is vital that we get these policies right as we take forward our plans to drive down the deficit and transform our economy.

  

  David Cameron

  PoliticianBritish1966 · 20th century

  3.4 · 33 votes · 30 reads

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• It must be awfully frustrating to get a small raise at work and then have it all eaten by a higher cost of commuting.

  B

  Ben Bernanke

  EconomistAmerican1953 · 20th century

  3.0 · 12 votes · 155 reads

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• It takes about two and a half percent growth just to keep unemployment stable.

  B

  Ben Bernanke

  EconomistAmerican1953 · 20th century

  4.0 · 59 votes · 4 reads

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• It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological

  

  William J. Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.1 · 56 votes · 71 reads

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• It will not be possible to solve the current crisis with euro bonds.

  

  Angela Merkel

  PoliticianGerman1954 · 20th century

  3.3 · 51 votes · 159 reads

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• It's a question of not so much pushing the boys out of the picture, but making the whole frame bigger so that both men and women access the labor market, contribute to the economy, generate growth, have jobs, and so on.

  

  Christine Lagarde

  EconomistFrench1956 · 20th century

  4.1 · 45 votes · 176 reads

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• It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move away from fossil fuels.

  

  Ted Turner

  BusinessmanAmerican1938 · 20th century

  4.3 · 41 votes · 137 reads

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• It's never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.

  

  Warren Buffett

  BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

  3.2 · 31 votes · 26 reads

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• It's only when the markets are perceived to have exhausted themselves on the downside that they turn. Trying to prevent them from going down just merely prolongs the agony.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  4.5 · 21 votes · 130 reads

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• It's the price of success: people start to think you're omnipotent.

  B

  Ben Bernanke

  EconomistAmerican1953 · 20th century

  3.6 · 24 votes · 99 reads

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• It's true that the Federal Reserve faces a lot of political pressure and is unpopular in many circles.

  B

  Ben Bernanke

  EconomistAmerican1953 · 20th century

  4.3 · 6 votes · 94 reads

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• Manufacturing capacity is not a rigid level against which one bounces. When you are dealing with a world economy, with a flexibility to employ production facilities other than one's own, then the concept of capacity is vaguer.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  4.6 · 28 votes · 117 reads

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• Markets do very weird things because it reacts to how people behave, and sometimes people are a little screwy.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  3.8 · 21 votes · 66 reads

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• Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  4.6 · 33 votes · 8 reads

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• Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

  

  Edmund Burke

  PoliticianIrish-British1729 · 18th century

  3.3 · 27 votes · 70 reads

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• Monetary policy cannot do much about long-run growth, all we can try to do is to try to smooth out periods where the economy is depressed because of lack of demand.

  B

  Ben Bernanke

  EconomistAmerican1953 · 20th century

  3.9 · 56 votes · 77 reads

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• Monetary policy is not a panacea.

  B

  Ben Bernanke

  EconomistAmerican1953 · 20th century

  3.2 · 54 votes · 117 reads

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• More of the same will just produce more of the same: less competitiveness, less growth, fewer jobs.

  

  David Cameron

  PoliticianBritish1966 · 20th century

  3.6 · 60 votes · 184 reads

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• Much fiscal policy is implemented, not through spending increases, but through tax credits and other so-called tax expenditures. The markets should respond to them as they do spending cuts, with little contraction in economic activity.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  3.8 · 27 votes · 100 reads

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• My task over the last two years hasn't just been to stop the bleeding. My task has also been to try to figure out how do we address some of the structural problems in the economy that have prevented more Googles from being created.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  3.9 · 36 votes · 8 reads

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• Naturally we are aware of the strength of our economy and naturally we don't want to downplay it.

  

  Gerhard Schroder

  PoliticianGerman1944 · 20th century

  3.6 · 17 votes · 90 reads

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• Never spend your money before you have earned it.

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  3.0 · 36 votes · 44 reads

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• No nation was ever ruined by trade.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.4 · 15 votes · 173 reads

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• Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  3.2 · 32 votes · 113 reads

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• Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.7 · 18 votes · 55 reads

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• Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.

  

  Warren Buffett

  BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

  3.3 · 25 votes · 15 reads

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• Our mission, as set forth by the Congress is a critical one: to preserve price stability, to foster maximum sustainable growth in output and employment, and to promote a stable and efficient financial system that serves all Americans well and fairly.

  B

  Ben Bernanke

  EconomistAmerican1953 · 20th century

  3.8 · 49 votes · 131 reads

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• People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  3.5 · 32 votes · 167 reads

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• People forget... that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that's what happened.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.0 · 45 votes · 0 reads

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• President Obama has offered a plan with 4 trillion dollars in debt reduction over a decade, with two and a half dollars of spending reductions for every one dollar of revenue increases, and tight controls on future spending. It's the kind of balanced appr

  

  William J. Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.3 · 42 votes · 163 reads

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• President Obama started with a much weaker economy than I did. Listen to me now. No president, not me, not any of my predecessors, no one could have fully repaired all the damage that he found in just four years.

  

  William J. Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.4 · 33 votes · 196 reads

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• Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  3.1 · 15 votes · 89 reads

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• Remember, Republican economic policies quadrupled the debt before I took office and doubled it after I left. We simply can't afford to double-down on trickle-down.

  

  William J. Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.8 · 36 votes · 50 reads

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• The American people are among the most productive in the world. We have the best technologies. We have great universities. We have entrepreneurs.

  B

  Ben Bernanke

  EconomistAmerican1953 · 20th century

  4.2 · 36 votes · 157 reads

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• The benefit of appointing a hawkish central banker is the increased inflation-fighting credibility that such an appointment brings.

  B

  Ben Bernanke

  EconomistAmerican1953 · 20th century

  3.0 · 9 votes · 62 reads

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• The central bank needs to be able to make policy without short term political concerns.

  B

  Ben Bernanke

  EconomistAmerican1953 · 20th century

  3.9 · 8 votes · 16 reads

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• The central focus of what we are doing at the Fed is to keep inflation from accelerating - and preferably decelerating.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  4.4 · 6 votes · 150 reads

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• The crisis and recession have led to very low interest rates, it is true, but these events have also destroyed jobs, hamstrung economic growth and led to sharp declines in the values of many homes and businesses.

  B

  Ben Bernanke

  EconomistAmerican1953 · 20th century

  3.6 · 8 votes · 70 reads

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• The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior

  

  John Maynard Keynes

  EconomistBritish1883 · 19th century

  4.8 · 60 votes · 52 reads

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• The debt limits have to come down. The whole world of debt has to be changed as far as this country is concerned. We have to create jobs and we have to create them rapidly because if we don't things are just going to head in a direction that's going to be

  

  Donald Trump

  BusinessmanAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.1 · 36 votes · 200 reads

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• The economist John Maynard Keynes said that in the long run, we are all dead. If he were around today he might say that, in the long run, we are all on Social Security and Medicare.

  B

  Ben Bernanke

  EconomistAmerican1953 · 20th century

  4.3 · 30 votes · 98 reads

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• The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  3.9 · 13 votes · 137 reads

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• The Fed is totally open.

  B

  Ben Bernanke

  EconomistAmerican1953 · 20th century

  3.2 · 6 votes · 26 reads

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• The Federal Reserve can only buy Treasuries and agencies, and moreover quantitative easing typically involves buying longer-term Treasuries and agencies in terms of bills, for example.

  B

  Ben Bernanke

  EconomistAmerican1953 · 20th century

  3.1 · 44 votes · 84 reads

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• The Federal Reserve's job is to do the right thing, to take the long-run interest of the economy to heart, and that sometimes means being unpopular. But we have to do the right thing.

  B

  Ben Bernanke

  EconomistAmerican1953 · 20th century

  4.2 · 24 votes · 37 reads

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• The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.8 · 44 votes · 35 reads

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• The financial industry is a service industry. It should serve others before it serves itself.

  

  Christine Lagarde

  EconomistFrench1956 · 20th century

  4.8 · 45 votes · 181 reads

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• The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

  

  Ernest Hemingway

  WriterAmerican1899 · 19th century

  5.0 · 60 votes · 36 reads

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• The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.

  B

  Ben Bernanke

  EconomistAmerican1953 · 20th century

  4.4 · 17 votes · 180 reads

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• The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  PoliticianRussian1931 · 20th century

  3.3 · 15 votes · 55 reads

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• The markets want to force us to do certain things. That we won't do. Politicians have to make sure that we're unassailable, that we can make policy for the people.

  

  Angela Merkel

  PoliticianGerman1954 · 20th century

  4.0 · 20 votes · 133 reads

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• The monetary policy of the United States has a major impact on global liquidity and capital flows and therefore, the liquidity of the U.S. dollar should be kept at a reasonable and stable level.

  

  Hu Jintao

  PoliticianChinese1942 · 20th century

  5.0 · 36 votes · 17 reads

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• The more guidance a central bank can provide the public about how policy is likely to evolve the greater the chance that market participants will make appropriate inferences.

  B

  Ben Bernanke

  EconomistAmerican1953 · 20th century

  3.6 · 18 votes · 147 reads

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• The only way to have several currencies from divergent nations lumped together is if they are culturally close, such as Germany, the Netherlands and Austria. If they aren't, it simply can't continue to work.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  3.6 · 60 votes · 198 reads

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• The only way you get economic progress, real standards of living moving higher, is to have the savings of the society continuously invested in the cutting-edge technologies. And those technologies which are obsolescent get dropped out.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  3.8 · 53 votes · 167 reads

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• The problem is you cannot have free global trade with highly restrictive, regulated domestic markets.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  4.3 · 43 votes · 186 reads

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• The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

  PoliticianBritish1925 · 20th century

  4.2 · 14 votes · 72 reads

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• The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.

  

  Warren Buffett

  BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

  4.4 · 50 votes · 79 reads

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• The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.

  H

  H. G. Wells

  AuthorAmerican1866 · 19th century

  3.7 · 22 votes · 103 reads

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• The shift to a cleaner energy economy wont happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way. But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  3.5 · 32 votes · 38 reads

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• The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when you want to use it.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.9 · 28 votes · 31 reads

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• The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

  

  Vladimir Lenin

  LeaderRussian1870 · 19th century

  3.4 · 55 votes · 31 reads

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• The world economy today is recovering slowly, and there are still some destabilising factors and uncertainties. The underlying impact of the international financial crisis is far from over.

  

  Hu Jintao

  PoliticianChinese1942 · 20th century

  4.0 · 21 votes · 85 reads

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• There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.

  

  Warren Buffett

  BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

  3.7 · 46 votes · 148 reads

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• There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  3.0 · 29 votes · 172 reads

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• There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

  PoliticianBritish1925 · 20th century

  3.6 · 47 votes · 58 reads

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• There is a limit to how much the United States Treasury can borrow.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  3.1 · 54 votes · 21 reads

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• There is no doubt that as an economy grows in a great way like India has, that you have to step back and change your tax systems, because you start to get more disparities of wealth.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.4 · 18 votes · 52 reads

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• There won't be any miracles. We never promised any. But as we have said before, when things are done properly, the results come in.

  

  Mariano Rajoy

  PoliticianSpanish1955 · 20th century

  3.0 · 59 votes · 106 reads

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• There's no conflict between the social-welfare state and open markets.

  

  Gerhard Schroder

  PoliticianGerman1944 · 20th century

  3.2 · 51 votes · 32 reads

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• We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  3.4 · 26 votes · 173 reads

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• We can't go to people who have lost their job at GM and say, 'Oh, by the way, we are going to pay money to build a road here or inoculate children there,' unless we can demonstrate that it is in America's interest. I happen to think it is.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.8 · 17 votes · 157 reads

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• We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation and reform the labor laws.

  

  Mariano Rajoy

  PoliticianSpanish1955 · 20th century

  3.8 · 57 votes · 186 reads

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