全英文演讲稿Quotations about U.S. Economy Troubles

Quotations about U.S. Economy Troubles

My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99 cents a can.

That's almost $$7.00

in dog money.

~Joe Weinstein

The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters.

~Jean-Paul Kauffmann

I don't know if I can live on my income or not - the government won't let me try it.

~Bob Thaves,

People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't

live within its income.

~Robert Half

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

~Errol Flynn

Inflation hasn't ruined everything.

A dime can still be used as a screwdriver.

~Quoted in P

.S. I

Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Budget: a mathematical confirmation of your suspicions.

~A.A. Latimer

People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the

30-year mortgage.

~Doug Larson

When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?

~Chuck Palahniuk

It

isn't

so

much

that

hard

times

are

coming;

the

change

observed

is

mostly

soft

times

going.

~Groucho Marx

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

~Earl Wilson

The waste of money cures itself, for soon there is no more to waste.

~M.W. Harrison

October:

This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in.

The others

are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.

~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar for 1894

If

inflation

continues

to

soar,

you're

going

to

have

to

work

like

a

dog

just

to

live

like

one.

~George Gobel

In

the

old

days

a

man

who

saved

money

was

a

miser;

nowadays

he's

a

wonder.

~Author

Unknown

Inflation is taxation without legislation.

~Milton Friedman

When written in Chinese the word

and the other represents opportunity.

~John F. Kennedy, address, 12 April 1959

There

are

so

many

men

who

can

figure

costs,

and

so

few

who

can

measure values.

~Author

Unknown

The only reason a great many American families don't own an elephant is that they have never

been offered an elephant for a dollar down and easy weekly payments.

~Mad Magazine

The only man who sticks closer to you in adversity than a friend is a creditor.

~Author Unknown

Who goeth a borrowing

Goeth a sorrowing.

~Thomas Tusser

Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.

~Dutch Proverb

Debt is the worst poverty.

~Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

Today,

there

are

three

kinds

of

people:

the

have's,

the

have- not's,

and

the

have-not-paid-for-what-they-have's.

~Earl Wilson

When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage.

~Bill Balance

Credit buying is much like being drunk.

The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift....

The hangover comes the day after.

~Joyce Brothers

Bankruptcy stared me in the face, but one thought kept me calm; soon I'd be too poor to need an

anti-theft alarm.

~Gina Rothfels

There

is

much

in

the

world

to

make

us

afraid.

There

is

much

more

in

our

faith

to

make

us

unafraid.

~Frederick W. Cropp

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

~Thomas Fuller

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

~Bob Dylan

If people behaved like governments, you'd call the cops.

~Kelvin Throop

Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.

~Herbert Hoover, attributed

A survey says that American workers work the first three hours every day just to pay their taxes.

So

that's

why

we

can't

get anything

done

in

the

morning:

We're

government

workers.

~Jay

Leno

Everybody wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes.

~Werner

Finck

For each new morning with its light,

For rest and shelter of the night,

For health and food, for love and friends,

For everything Thy goodness sends.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you count all your assets, you always show a profit.

~Robert Quillen

Every

tomorrow

has

two

handles.

We

can

take

hold

of

it by

the

handle

of

anxiety,

or

by

the

handle of faith.

~Author Unknown

The key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.

~Peter Lynch

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

~Henry David Thoreau

We can't quite decide if the world is growing worse, or if the reporters are just working harder.

~The Houghton Line, November 1965

George Washington is the only president who didn't blame the previous administration for his

troubles.

~Author Unknown

Who is rich?

He who rejoices in his portion.

~The Talmud

Thrift was never more necessary in the world's history than it is today.

~Francis H. Sisson

He who does not economize will have to agonize.

~Confucius

It's

a

recession

when

your

neighbor

loses

his

job;

it's

a

depression

when

you

lose

your

own.

~Harry S. Truman

[O]f

all

the

aspects

of

social

misery

nothing

is

so

heartbreaking

as

unemployment.

~Jane

Addams, 1910

If things go wrong, don't go with them.

~Roger Babson

A hundredload of worry will not pay an ounce of debt.

~George Herbert

Worry bankrupts the spirit.

~Berri Clove

The gap in our economy is between what we have and what we think we ought to have - and that

is a moral problem, not an economic one.

~Paul Heyne

Politicians

say

they're

beefing

up

our

economy.

Most

don't

know

beef

from

pork.

~Harold

Lowman

The

government

’

s

view

of

the

economy

could

be

summed

up

in

a

few

short

phrases:

If

it

moves,

tax

it.

If

it

keeps

moving,

regulate

it.

And

if

it

stops

moving,

subsidize

it.

~Ronald

Reagan

Economic

advance

is

not

the

same

thing

as

human

progress.

~John

Clapham,

A

Concise

Economic History of Britain, 1957

I once met an economist who believed that everything was fungible for money, so I suggested he

enclose himself in a large bell-jar with as much money as he wanted and see how long he lasted.

~Amory Lovins

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

~George Bernard

Shaw

If the nation's economists were laid end to end, they would point in all directions.

~Arthur H.

Motley

They

talk

about

the

economy

this

year.

Hey,

my

hairline

is

in

recession,

my

waistline

is

in

inflation.

Altogether, I'm in a depression.

~Rick Majerus

I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the

money.

~Arthur Godfrey