20 Movie Quotes about Economics (Sound Clips)

Last updated on: June 5, 2025

Memorable quotes about economics, selected from famous or less known movies and other sources 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.

Quote from 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.

Quote from 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.

Quote from 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.

Quote from 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?

Quote from Clear and Present Danger