Household Decisions Quotes

If the public understands the central bank's views on the economy and monetary policy, then households and businesses will take those views into account in making their spending and investment plans; policy will be more effective as a result.

I was raised Catholic. But if someone says I was raised in some religion, that's insufficient information to actually know what was going on. The real question is Was the religion in the household? The answer is no. Important decisions in the household were executed rationally and secularly. So as a result, the foundations of my reasoning derive not from religion but from the rational analysis of circumstances.

I respect that my husband makes decisions he feels are sensible and intelligent... It's not my place to give him political advice.

Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live.

I like to joke with my wife that she's the CEO of... certainly of our household.

I remember the old joke, while women are deciding which schools the kids go to, where you're going to live, how the money's going to be spent, and where your health care is coming from, the men are out standing around the barbecue solving all the big world problems. So I think this is a well known fact and we're not breaking any new ground here.

When you're a man, you want to make decisions for your family, and sometimes the lady doesn't see what you see.

As a woman finds economic opportunity, even if she's only earning a couple of dollars a day, if she can save it on her phone, she then makes different decisions for her household than her husband might.