20 Movie Quotes about Economics (Sound Clips) - page 2

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.

11 No, because it's no longer profitable to keep slaves. Slaves do not produce as much as free men. Let us do what is profitable, and right.

James Mason as Timonides in The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

12 Thumbelina, think of all you'll save on meals.

Quote from Thumbelina (1994)

13 And soon everybody was rich with their, uh... frozen assets, heh, to coin a phrase.

Quote from Jack Frost (1979)

14 Hello, young men. Welcome. Come in and buy. Buy or sell. Take or put.

Quote from Knock on Any Door (1949)

15 Monopoly in what? -Tungsten. That doesn't impress you. -Well, I don't know much about it. I mean, I don't know if it's worth getting shot at, for the pleasure of monopolizing it.

Glenn Ford as Johnny Farrell in Gilda (1946)

16 Well, I'll tell you, as I see it, we're headed for bad times in this country. Of course, we're in the backwash of the war boom now, but the tide is running out fast.

Quote from The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

17 Straight economics, man.

Quote from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

18 It's the law of economics.

Quote from Enter the Dragon (1973)

19 Oh, this is Joteph. He's from a Sudanese tribe that has no concept of money.

Quote from The Dictator (2012)

20 Arrows cost money. Use up the Irish. The dead cost nothing. And send in the infantry and cavalry.

Quote from Braveheart (1995)