Minoru Yamasaki Quotes

Let’s throw the economists out and use common sense instead.

I mean, I'm very serious with my kids about them comprehending the intricacies of global finance.

Humans have trouble with economics, as you may have noticed, and not just because economic circumstances sometimes cause them to starve. Humans seem to have an innate inability to pay attention to economic principles.

Mitt Romney, you can criticize him for a lot of things, and that's fair, but he knows how the economy works.

I'm just saying that if you understand how the economic machine works, it just works like a machine. There are cause-effect relationships.

The media simply does not understand Econ 101.

Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right.

Start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient.

Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.

Economics is everywhere, and understanding economics can help you make better decisions and lead a happier life.

If ignorance paid dividends, most Americans could make a fortune out of what they don't know about economics.

We should improve economic guidance and management as demanded by the developing reality.

Nobody is more capable of detecting eventual economic fluctuation than women, since they monitor the increases and decreases of their home's budgets.

My interest in economics just basically comes because I think I'm a curious person, and I'm interested in how the world works.

A finance minister should have a basic understanding of the country, know where the shoe pinches and, hence, have some compassion in policy formulation. An ability to understand economic issues should certainly be there.

It is a misfortune of the times that all of us must needs be amateur economists-including, and perhaps especially, the professionals.

Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, but it cannot so be disposed of.

The tradition of Chicago price theory is a good one, and it is a low-tech methodology that tries to apply simple economic theory to the world.

As you know, low demand and high supply means a drop in value of anything, including the dollar.

Until we have comprehensive financial education, we'll never see the end of our booms and busts.

Paying for disasters and being fiscally responsible are not mutually exclusive.

No one is entertained by economics.

I don't think most of Congress understands how economics works.

There's a great lack of financial literacy and understanding in this nation, even among college-educated people.

I was desperate to understand money. Not to make it, to understand it. I wanted to know how it worked, and I wanted to know so that I would have enough and would be able to make good financial decisions. That led me to Ariel.