Talk:Economics

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• Anyone who says minimum wage laws decrease unemployment disavows the law of demand and is therefore unqualified to speak as an economist.
  • Nobel Laureate James M. Buchanan

• Economics is a complex and complicated world about all the simple things we see everyday.
  • Justin Val R. Virtudazo

• Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
  • Calvin Coolidge

• Ultimately, property rights and personal rights are the same thing. The one cannot be preserved if the other be violated.
  • Calvin Coolidge

• Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
  • Henry Ford

• The prosperity we have known up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.
  • Aldous Huxley

• Things may come to those who wait. But only the things left by those who hustle.
  • Abraham Lincoln

• That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
  • Abraham Lincoln

• Economics is the science of greed.
  • F. V. Meyer

• The body of economic knowledge is an essential element in the structure of human civilization; it is the foundation upon which modern industrialism and all the moral, intellectual, technological, and therapeutical achievements of the last centuries have been built.
  • Ludwig von Mises

• All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out.
  • Ludwig von Mises

• An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
  • Alfred A. Knopf

• Ordinary human concern for human distress does not manifest itself ordinarily in the form of a gun aimed at the wallets and earnings of one's neighbors.
  • Ayn Rand

• While, politically, a mixed economy preserves the semblance of an organized society with a semblance of law and order, economically it is the equivalent of the chaos that had ruled China for centuries: a chaos of robber gangs looting--and draining--the productive elements of the country.
  • Ayn Rand

• If economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion
  • George Bernard Shaw

• No matter how worthy the cause, it is robbery, theft, and injustice to confiscate the property of one person and give it to another to whom it does not belong.
  • Walter Williams

Quotes from Pakistani newspaper and CEO of a local (Indian) NGO

These quotes were recently added:

• Everybody wants to see the economy improve, but more importantly, everybody wants to feel that improvement in their day-to-day lives.
  • Dawn, The economy in focus (September 17, 2019)

• Our broken economies are lining the pockets of billionaires and big business at the expense of ordinary men and women. No wonder people are starting to question whether billionaires should even exist.
  • Amitabh Behar, as quoted in Wealth of India's richest 1% more than 4-times of total for 70% poorest: Oxfam, Livemint

The quote is also in about 17 other wikiquote articles. The Dawn is a Pakistani newspaper. Amitabh Behar is a CEO of a local NGO in India (subject has no wikipedia page). Livemint is a news blog/website.

The topic of the economy of Pakistan is fine, and so are billionaires.

But this is a high level article about quotes on economics. This article should have more quotes from books, rather than websites or newspapers, that have timeless quotability. --დამოკიდებულება (talk) 10:08, 23 August 2020 (UTC)

The concern is of course not because the quote is from a particular country or newspaper/newsblog. I would have (almost) the same concern if random quotes from the NYT are quoted. There is an overabundance of quotes from newspapers when timeless quotes from books should be preferred at least in high level articles like this one. --დამოკიდებულება (talk) 11:21, 23 August 2020 (UTC)