26 Movie Quotes about Economics (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

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.

21 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.

Myrna Loy as Milly Stephenson in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

22 We all know that the Arabs control $16 billion in this country. They own a chunk of 5th Avenue, twenty downtown pieces of Boston, a part of the port of New Orleans, an industrial park in Salt Lake City.

Peter Finch as Howard Beale in Network (1976)

23 Straight economics, man.

Johnny Depp as Raoul Duke in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

24 It's the law of economics.

Bruce Lee as Lee in Enter the Dragon (1973)

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

Sacha Baron Cohen as Admiral General Aladeen in The Dictator (2012)

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

Mel Gibson as William Wallace in Braveheart (1995)