26 Movie Quotes about Economics (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

Updated: Mar 1, 2026

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.

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

Harrison Ford as Jack Ryan in Clear and Present Danger

12 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)

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

Jodi Benson as Thumbelina in Thumbelina (1994)

14 Look at that printing press. -And all those new $20 bills on the table.

Nicole Jaffe as Velma Dinkley; Casey Kasem as Shaggy Rogers in Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (1969)

15 Right now the Arabs have screwed us out of enough American dollars to come right back and, with our own money, buy General Motors IBM, ITT, AT and T, Dupont, U.S. Steel and 20 other American companies.

Peter Finch as Howard Beale in Network (1976)

16 It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet.

Ned Beatty as Arthur Jensen in Network (1976)

17 We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business.

Ned Beatty as Arthur Jensen in Network (1976)

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

Robert Morse as Jack Frost in Jack Frost (1979)

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

Humphrey Bogart as Andrew Morton in Knock on Any Door (1949)

20 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)