Browse Quotes

Learned helplessness is the giving up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Hope is the enduring belief in the attainability of fervent wishes.

The preservation of fodder is not merely a technical achievement, but a cornerstone of agricultural sustainability.

Econometrics is the art of extracting the maximum information from minimum data.

Most of the people of the world are poor, so if we knew the economics of being poor, we would know much of the economics that really matters.

The Kuznets curve suggests that as an economy develops, market forces first increase and then decrease overall economic inequality.

The bile acids represent a fascinating bridge between the animal kingdom and the world of organic synthesis.

The ultimate aim of economic policy is to create a society in which every individual can develop his or her full potential.

Economic theory without statistical verification is a mere exercise in logic.

The fermentation process, once thought to require living cells, proceeds just as vigorously in the absence of life.

The American Creed is the cement in the structure of this great and disparate nation.

The unearned increment of land value is the natural fund from which all public expenses should be defrayed.

Political Economy is the science which treats of the nature, the production, and the distribution of wealth.

The earth is the sole source of wealth and it is agriculture which multiplies it.

The true wealth of a nation is its land and its people.

All the inhabitants of a State are supported and maintained from the produce of the Land and from the Labour of Men.

Trade is a continual circulation of buying and selling, and the more buying and selling there is, the more trade there is.

The best way to acquire wealth is to manage well what you have.

The theory of value is the theory of choice.

The purpose of the economy is to serve the people, not the other way around.