21 Movie Quotes about Economics (+ Sound Clips)

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Memorable quotes about economics, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 To me, a dollar was a dollar in any language.

Glenn Ford as Johnny Farrell in Gilda (1946)

2 I've got 40 more minutes of home economics, then down with the textbooks and up with the comics.

Bill Farmer as Goofy in A Goofy Movie (1995)

3 It's been a bad harvest. The people have nothing. How can we increase the taxes? They won't be able to live.

Quote from Shaolin Prince

4 Slaves are wealth, Commander. The more slaves we have, the more bricks we make.

Charlton Heston as Moses in The Ten Commandments (1956)

5 You have taken in $15, and given away 50 cents' worth of crap. Which gives us a net profit of $14.50.

Steve Martin as Navin R. Johnson in The Jerk

6 They make the honey, and we make the money.

Ray Liotta in Bee Movie

7 Posit, people think a bank might be financially shaky. -Consequence, people start to withdraw their money. -Result, pretty soon, it is financially shaky. -Conclusion, you can make banks fail.

Ben Kingsley as Cosmo; Robert Redford as Martin Bishop in Sneakers (1992)

8 It'll all be going out, and nothing coming in to live on.

Paul Winfield as Mr. Eskridge in The Greatest (1977)

9 Do you know how much money it costs to go to New York? -Nobody knows. It changes practically every day.

Gaby Hoffmann in Sleepless in Seattle

10 Can we agree that as long as Americans demand drugs, someone will supply them?

Harrison Ford as Jack Ryan in Clear and Present Danger

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