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The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters. (Babangida Ibrahim)
Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance. (Babangida Ibrahim)
The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems -- the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion. (Babangida Ibrahim)
If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid. (Babangida Ibrahim)
A nation is not in danger of financial disaster merely because it owes itself money. (Babangida Ibrahim)
Much in little. (Babangida Ibrahim)
If you laid ever economist in the country end to end you would still not reach a conclusion. (Babangida Ibrahim)
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries. (Babangida Ibrahim)
We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule. (Babangida Ibrahim)
But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings. (Babangida Ibrahim)
Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade. (Babangida Ibrahim)
Profit is the ignition system of our economic engine. (Babangida Ibrahim)
Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation of man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of future generations; as long as you have not shown it to be uneconomic you have not really questioned its right to exist, grow, and prosper. (Babangida Ibrahim)
Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil. (Babangida Ibrahim)
Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse. (Babangida Ibrahim)
If all the economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. (Babangida Ibrahim)
Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow the vulgar great, the vainly rich, the miserable proud, the mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings, and with blind feelings reverence the power that grinds them to the dust of misery. (Babangida Ibrahim)
The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road. (Babangida Ibrahim)
Give me a one-handed economist! All my economics say, On the one hand on the other. (Babangida Ibrahim)
An economist is someone who knows more about money than the people who have it. (Babangida Ibrahim)
The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by. (Babangida Ibrahim)
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