Economic Sense Quotes

Good economics is good politics.

It doesn't make sense to have a bitumen export economy.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens.

Our supplies of natural resources are not finite in any economic sense. Nor does past experience give reason to expect natural resources to become more scarce. Rather, if history is any guide, natural resources will progressively become less costly, hence less scarce, and will constitute a smaller proportion of our expenses in future years.

Economy has frequently nothing whatever to do with the amount of money being spent, but with the wisdom used in spending it.

It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little.

A dollar saved is a dollar earned but seldom vice versa.

The extent to which all people in our society are made to count, and believe that they count, is not just a measure of decency; it makes sound economic sense.

If it doesn’t make economic sense, it doesn’t happen

For decades, we've been told that it doesn't make economic sense to switch to renewable energy. Today, that's no longer true.

Money is of no value; it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.

Whoever wants to reach socialism by any other path than that of political democracy will inevitably arrive at conclusions that are absurd and reactionary both in the economic and the political sense.

The truth of anything doesn't matter anymore. What's right doesn't matter. What makes economic common sense doesn't matter. I'm blue in the face over it.

Why would I spend $5 billion for something in order to wreck it?

A populist is someone who fights for common sense economic policies that sustain and expand the middle class.

The most important thing is to not waste your money.

Right from the start [1902] every Senator … wanted a project in his state. Every representative wanted one in his district. They didn’t care whether they made economic sense or not.

The reality is that Rachel Notley's adherence to pipelines and exporting raw bitumen doesn't make sense for Alberta's economy and it doesn't make sense for Canada.

We will work to modify and remove some European parameters, but regarding the euro, I remain convinced that the single currency is destined to end: not because I want it but because the facts, common sense, and the real economy dictate it.

I'm trying to develop an approach to putting out a movie in wide release that makes some kind of economic sense for the filmmakers and the people that have a participation in the movie.

Grounded in international human rights, gender equality doesn’t just improve the lives of individual women, girls, and their families; it makes economic sense, strengthens democracy, and enables long-term sustainable progress.

Most economists, including me, agree that longevity insurance would make sense for a lot of people.

It makes no sense economically that public money goes to help foreign workers and migrants in a region where unemployment is higher than national average.

One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.