economics Quotes

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.

Socialism never arises in the earlier phases of capitalism, as, for instance, among the pioneers of civilisation in a country where there is plenty of land available for private appropriation by the last comer.

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I'm not based in Monaco... I think my country helped me.