Economics Quotes

You can't repeal the laws of economics. Wages in China are so cheap, that you'll never make labor cheap enough in the United States to compete with that. - Robert Brusca

You can't drill a well when you don't know what the economics will be. - Ken Wonstolen

You always want to try to make something new, and, of course, America is the world leader in economics today. - Tadao Ando

With the president, Republicans are of two minds. With national security, there is a level of content. But with economics, there is a general level of discontent. - Chip Hanlon

With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper. - Thorstein Veblen

Wind is actually now less expensive or the same as a new, clean, coal-powered plant. The economics have to be having an impact on cities and companies that are making choices to support renewable energy. The price of coal tends to loosely follow the price of gas. Those prices are volatile. That's what makes wind so interesting. The fuel is free, stable and predictable. - Peter Mastic

Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a physical theory, a scientist would certainly be expected to give precise information? - Friedrich August Von Hayek

While we respect that businesses want to find ways to lower their normal costs of doing business, merchants have many options to improve their economics that do not include costly and time-consuming litigation. - Paul Cohen