12 Movie Quotes about Economy (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Oct 12, 2025

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

1 Dead? No, we have but slept, for five million years. Nothing much seems to have changed. -Slept? -Yes, through the economic recession.

Richard Evelyn Vernon as Slartibartfast in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

2 Well, anyway, the recession came and we thought, thought it would save a lot of bother if we just slept through it. So we programmed the computers to revive us when it was all over.

Richard Evelyn Vernon as Slartibartfast in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

3 Hey, how great. I mean, for you to have so much, considering the current economic situation.

Lorenzo Music as Garfield in Garfield on the Town

4 When fall the banks of England, England falls!

Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins in Mary Poppins

5 We're happy to get the kind of money that jingles, but we'd rather get the kind that folds.

Eddie Murphy as Prince Akeem in Coming to America (1988)

6 Provide your customers with products they need and encourage that need a little bit to stimulate your market...

Bruce Lee as Lee in Enter the Dragon (1973)

7 And, not only that, it's the wrong time. It's a terrible idea. I mean, you got the economy. You got the credit bubble, the Supreme Court. I mean, look at Haiti.

Seth Macfarlane as Ted Bear in Ted (2012)

8 Well, I guess we should have a staff meeting. I'd like to meet all the employees. -You just did. -You mean, you and me? That's it?

George O'Hanlon as George Jetson in Jetsons: The Movie (1990)

9 They were index-linked to the Galactic stock market prices, you see. So that we'd all be revived when everybody else had rebuilt the economy enough to be able to afford our rather expensive services.

Richard Evelyn Vernon as Slartibartfast in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

10 Maybe I didn't make myself clear. Gold is money. And whether you realize it or not, you need money.

David Hasselhoff as Michael Knight in Knight Rider (1982)

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