Economic Growth Quotes - Page 4

• I'm not afraid of a world with less consumerism, less 'stuff' and no economic growth. I'm far more frightened of the opposite

  Rob Hopkins

  Opposites, Growth, World

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• In order to spur economic growth we need to put the brakes on out of control spending, lower Ohioans tax burden and create a most efficient and effective government.

  Ken Blackwell

  Government, Order, Growth

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• Economic growth which strips out the planet’s ecosystems is not sustainable

  Helen Clark

  Ecosystems, Growth, Economic

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• I'm not saying [economic] growth is wrong, but throughout the years of growth, many things didn't get better. ... If you look at America, the proportion of Americans with no one to talk to about important things went up from a tenth to a quarter.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Years, America, Growth

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• The average well-being of our societies is not dependent any longer on national income and economic growth. ... But the differences between us and where we are in relation to each other now matter very much.

  Richard G. Wilkinson

  Motivation, Inspiration, Average

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• One cannot have economic growth without security.

  John Bruton

  Growth, Economic, Security

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• Growth is improving the lot of the poor in many countries, reducing poverty by half since 1981. Freer trade could accelerate progress.

  Francois Bourguignon

  Country, Growth, Progress

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• I want Canada to be the country that is the best in the world at combining economic growth, social justice and environmental sustainability.

  Stephane Dion

  Country, Justice, Growth

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• We want a strong, growing economy

  John Baird

  Strong, Growth, Growing

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• Corporations are mandated, in effect, to 'grow or die,' a rule also called 'the growth imperative.'

  Michele Simon

  Growth, Corporations, Economic

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• In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.

  Tim Bishop

  Block, Cutting, Innovation

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• Well-functioning financial systems are important in achieving sustained economic growth. They play a crucial role in channeling household savings into the corporate sector and allocating investment funds among firms.

  Toshihiko Fukui

  Play, Growth, Important

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• The world has also learned that economic growth, by itself, cannot close the gap between rich and poor.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Growth, World

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• The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, is dialectic. Peace, poverty, and backwardness cannot mix in one region.

  King Hussein I

  Hands, Growth, Links

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• High quality water is more than the dream of the conservationists, more than a political slogan; high quality water, in the right quantity at the right place at the right time, is essential to health, recreation, and economic growth.

  Edmund Muskie

  Dream, Rivers, Water

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• The great challenge to management today is to make productive the tremendous new resource, the knowledge worker. This, rather than the productivity of the manual worker, is the key to economic growth and economic performance in today's society.

  Peter Drucker

  Business, Keys, Challenges

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• We cannot afford the EPA's continued expansion of red tape that is slowing economic growth and threatening to entangle millions of small businesses.

  Fred Upton

  Growth, Expansion, Tape

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• You can't fuel real economic growth with indiscriminate credit. You can only fuel it with well-allocated, long-term investment.

  James Surowiecki

  Real, Long, Growth

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• Where others fear trade and economic growth, we see opportunities for creating new wealth and undreamed-of opportunities for millions in our own land and beyond. Where others seek to throw up barriers, we seek to bring them down; where others take counsel of their fears, we follow our hopes.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, Hope, Fear

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1988). “Presidential address: State of the Union, Monday, January 25, 1988”

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• Through pro-growth policies, by abolishing Obamacare and eliminating other Obama-imposed impediments to economic growth, we will get our economy back on track.

  Mitt Romney

  Obamacare, Track, Growth

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• When you're in an economic downturn, what you want is to create jobs and economic growth. And the recipe isn't Republican or Democrat. It's low taxes, low spending, less regulation, free trade.

  Nancy Pfotenhauer

  Jobs, Growth, Recipes

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• In an ecological perspective, in other words, there are few accidents or anomalies, only outcomes based on system structure and dynamics. Climate change and glittering malls, Calcuttan poverty and sybaritic wealth, biotic impoverishment and economic growth, militarism and terrorism, global domination and utter vulnerability are not different things but manifestations of a single system.

  David W. Orr

  Perspective, Growth, Environmental

  David W. Orr (2012). “The Last Refuge: Patriotism, Politics, and the Environment in an Age of Terror”, p.44, Island Press

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• The United States is locked in a new arms race for that most precious resource - the future entrepreneurs upon whom economic growth depends. Substantial research shows that immigrants play a key role in American job creation.

  Eric Ries

  Jobs, Play, Keys

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• Obama's presidency hasn't been dedicated to achieving economic growth in the short term, or about creating jobs.

  John Podhoretz

  Jobs, Creating, Growth

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• Japan is a model already to the lie that economic growth is the key to our future. If they can really show an alternative to nukes and fossil fuels, then they will be the poster boy for the renewable energy for the future.

  David Suzuki

  Lying, Boys, Keys

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