Economic Limitation Quotes

We can't continue to spend where there isn't any money.

At the age of 20 I bought a used Fiat 127. This was the only one I could afford!

The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody...It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.

The common good may sometimes demand that the right to own be limited by public involvement in the planning or ownership of certain sectors of the economy.

The problem is not that the PC you need always costs more than you can afford. The problem is that whatever the price, it is still too much.

The people of Hong Kong are criticized for only being interested in business, but it's the only thing they've been allowed to do.

I never really had the money to be a sneakerhead.

The key problem is to find out why that sector of society of the past, which I would not hesitate to call capitalist, should have lived as if in a bell jar, cut off from the rest; why was it not able to expand and conquer the whole of society?... [Why was it that] a significant rate of capital formation was possible only in certain sectors and not in the whole market economy of the time?

I started dressing vintage when I was a teenager because I didn't have money for designer clothes.

I have a million ideas. The country can't afford them all.

I have never had the money to make too many large purchases.

Traditional Republicanism grew up in the 1850s as opposed to the Democrats, who always saw the world kind of as a 'us vs. them' proposition. That the world was limited; the economy was limited.

You can tax the rich all you want. The problem is there aren't enough of the rich.

I don't even have my own computer.

Iraq has, in effect, one export of any consequence. That's oil.

Because the world to-day is so constructed that no one can do what he would like to do, and he is forced, instead, to do what others wish him to do. Because the question of money always intrudes—into what we do, into what we are, into what we wish to become, into our work, into our highest aspirations, even into our relations with the people we love!

I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment.