In these tough times, when economies all across the world are facing difficult times, here are a few quotes to make you think and, perhaps, smile :

Never spend your money before you have earned it. ?? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? Thomas Jefferson

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.
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Economy is how to spend money without enjoying it.
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The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world’s population.
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When everything is worth money, then money is worth nothing.

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All public resources go to the rich. The poor, if they can survive in the labor market, fine. Otherwise, they die. That’s economics in a nutshell.
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The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another’s labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live.?? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Leo Tolstoy

The superior person understands rightness; the inferior person understands profit.? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Confucius

If we only have great companies, we will merely have a prosperous society, not a great one. Economic growth and power are the means, not the definition, of a great nation.
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Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.
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