Economic Condition Quotes

The history of interest rates is really the history of inflation. When inflation is high, interest rates are high, and when inflation is low, interest rates are low.

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

I ask to be judged on the issue of unemployment.

Take immediate and decisive steps to better the condition of the peasant. Abandon the system of war-time Communism by which we practically took from the peasant all his surplus, and sometimes what was not his surplus but part of his necessary subsistence.

People who say that money isn't the most important thing in the world are usually broke.

I wasn't rich.

General well-being is incompatible with lowness of wages.

The President also talked at length about how well the American economy is doing. Apparently, he got his information on this topic from his millionaire supporters. For the average working family, these are trying economic times.

Labour is the source of all wealth, the political economists assert. And it really is the source -- next to nature, which supplies it with the material that it converts into wealth. But it is even infinitely more than this. It is the prime basic condition for all human existence, and this to such an extent that, in a sense, we have to say that labour created man himself.

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

The surpluses of the [19]90s were the result of a growing economy. They were not the result of government policy.

The war on poverty had not been undertaken at the request of the poor.

The outlook for the Federal budget is bleak.

Nothing was made in Trinidad.

The global economy is in pretty good shape.

I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation.

Our rate moves will have an impact on the economy in 2013. Whether we raise or lower rates depends on how the economic situation develops.

When times were good, we made more money. When times are bad, we make less money.

Thank God the economy is not as bad as you read in the newspaper every day.

The fact that some poor, illiterate people have ‘gone Communist’ does not prove that poverty caused them to do so.

It is clear that the economy has not gotten better for everyone.

The condition of white people in this State is such that they must labor in competition with the negro laborer.

Poverty is an artificial imposition on a human being.

Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population.

Wealth brings with it refinement, the spirit of conservation, while poverty inspires adventurous ideas, the desire to change things, and has little care for life.