Ask five economists and you’ll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard).    —Edgar R. Fiedler

If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion.        —George Bernard Shaw

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.          —Henry Ford

Social values and habits dictate economic activity and not the other way around.            —Alexander Hamilton

Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum of moo.                 —Terry Pratchett

Money is like manure; it’s not worth a thing unless it’s spread around encouraging young things to grow.                 —Thornton Wilder

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.         —Edmund Burke

We have for the first time an economy based on a key resource [Information] that is not only renewable, but self-generating. Running out of it is not a problem, but drowning in it is.

—John Naisbitt

If the misery of our poor is caused not by the laws of nature, but by our great institutions, great is our sin.              —Charles Darwin

If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.

—Henry Fielding

Beware of small expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.

—Benjamin Franklin

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.          —Robert Frost

Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.          —John Kenneth Galbraith

Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.

—Herbert Hoover

In the 1980s capitalism triumphed over communism. In the 1990s it triumphed over democracy.               —David C. Korten

The gap in our economy is between what we have and what we think we ought to have — and that is a moral problem, not an economic one.         —Paul Heyne

A dynamic economy begins with a good education.     —Bob Taft

Above and beyond the question of how to grow the economy there is a legitimate concern about how to grow the quality of our lives.

—Paul Wellstone

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.

—Milton Friedman

The man who will live above his present circumstances is in great danger of living in a little time much beneath them, or, as the Italian proverb says: The man who lives by hope will die by despair.

             —Joseph Addison