Economy quotes

“ If society was throwing us away, and sending us, the workhorse, out to the pasture, we workhorses had to gather together and take care of each other. And that’s what this is all about. The way I see it is that the Titanic is sinking, and economic times are changing. And so my goal is to get the lifeboats out and get as many people into the...” (continue)(continue reading)
Bob Wells - Bob

“The premise is simple: One economy and one environment, and they're interdependent.”
William Dennis Weaver

“What do you think will happen when they run off this dough... and there's trillions of extra dollars, francs, and marks floating around? You've got a collapse of confidence in the currency. People are gonna panic. There's gonna be gold riots, atonal music... political chaos, mass suicide. Right? It's Germany before Hitler. You can see that....” (continue)(continue reading)
Peter Falk - Vince Ricardo

“It's strange that you encourage people to invest their whole life savings, go into debt, just to buy a house they can't afford.”
Frances McDormand - Fern

I worked for corporate America, you know, for twenty years. And my friend, Bill, worked for the same company, and he had liver failure. A week before he was due to retire, HR called him in hospice, and said, “Now, let’s talk about your retirement.” And he died ten days later, having never been able to take that sailboat that he bought out of his... (continue)(continue reading)
Merle Redwing - Merle

“I spent my entire academic career studying the Great Depression. The depression may have started because of a stock market crash, but what hit the general economy was a disruption of credit. Average citizens unable to borrow money, to do anything. To buy a home, start a business, stock their shelves.”
Paul Giamatti - Ben Bernanke

“Buying and selling, Frank. You know. Life.”
John Malkovich - Basie

“America's heavy manufacturing is dead.”

Craig T. Nelson - Salinger

“Well, I've got to go. I haven't done any shopping in three hours and I don't want to hurt the economy.”
Cassie Yates - Carla Robbins

“The problem with the economy isn't that people aren't paying their fair share of taxes.”
Jon Lovitz

“I'm confident that China's economic growth will definitely not slow to below 9 percent in the next two years.”
Justin Lin

“I don't really understand why there needs to be so much tension about this. The country is facing the worst economy since the Great Depression. If the financial system collapses, it will take every one of you down.”
Paul Giamatti - Ben Bernanke

“Credit has the ability to build a modern economy, but lack of credit has the ability to destroy it, swiftly and absolutely.”
Paul Giamatti - Ben Bernanke

“I see you have the machine that goes ping. This is my favorite. You see we lease it back from the company we sold it to and that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.”
Michael Palin - Hospital Administrator

“I haven't been this excited since Gucci became a publicly traded stock!”
Reese Witherspoon - Elle Woods

“The entire economy is flat. We're in the middle of a damn recession.”

Tommy Lee Jones - Gene McClary

“What's good for the economy is good for the country.”
Eugene Levy - Eugene Levy

“- Salinger: Our stock's in the fucking toilet.
- Gene: Everybody's stock's in the toilet.”
Craig T. Nelson - Salinger
Tommy Lee Jones - Gene McClary

- Nick Beam: "Diversify! You can't trust banks, Nick. The whole economy could crumble at any second". That bastard's so heavily leveraged it would wipe him out.
- Terrance Paul Davidson: What, am I hearing you right? Mr. High-and-Mighty's gonna rob his boss? You hear that, gila monsters? Old Nick Beam here's gonna rob his boss! I say, do you... (continue)(continue reading)
Tim Robbins - Nick Beam
Martin Lawrence - Terrance Paul Davidson

“Some big-shot over at the wiener company got together with some big-shot over at the bun company and decided to rip off the American public. Because they think the American public is a bunch of trusting nit-wits who will pay for everything they don't need rather than make a stink.”
Steve Martin - George Banks

“I’ll wager you anything you like that if American women stopped wearing brassieres your whole national economy would collapse overnight!”
Terry-Thomas - J. Algernon Hawthorne

“I think what our insightful young friend is saying is that we welcome the inevitable seasons of nature, but we're upset by the seasons of our economy.”

Melvyn Douglas - Benjamin Rand

“For years the government has been wisely coercing teenagers to buy products they normally wouldn't want, just to get their money.”
Eugene Levy - Eugene Levy

“- Sheldon Flender: Quantity affects quality!
- David Shayne: Says who?
- Sheldon Flender: Karl Marx!
- Rita: Oh, so now we're talking economics.
- Sheldon Flender: Sex is economics!”
Rob Reiner - Sheldon Flender
John Cusack - David Shayne
Stacey Nelkin - Rita

“I found the people at the Oscars singularly unattractive, didn't you? I noticed a general decline in facelifts and hair transplants. Must be the economy, don't you think?”
Maggie Smith - Diana Barrie