In our time, the
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries. Ezra Pound
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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries. Ezra Pound
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists. Ernest Hemingway
I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes. Edward Gibbon
Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits. Edmund Burke
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. Edmund Burke
Ask five economists and you’ll get five different answers – six if one went to Harvard. Edgar Fiedler
But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings. Franklin D. Roosevelt
First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time. Douglas Horton
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores. Charles Caleb Colton
Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow. Calvin Coolidge