Economic Quotes - Page 17

• I do think there is a sort of natural balance in nature between men and women, and that it's being thrown off-balance by the social and economic inequities between men and women.

  Natalie Portman

  Men, Thinking, Balance

  "Natalie Portman on Her New Role: Giving Women Hope". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.

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• I put forward a budget of what I called "middle-class economics" that continues to be fiscally prudent but makes necessary investments for us to continue the economic momentum and job growth.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Class, Growth

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• What you have to do is to look at what's going to keep our economic growth going, what's going to make sure jobs are being created.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Growth, Looks

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• There's five factors or characteristics of places where kids from poor backgrounds don't do very well. And those are places that have more economic and racial segregation, places with more income inequality.

  Gwen Ifill

  Kids, Income, Segregation

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you take the same child and put them in two different places, it will dramatically shape the way in which their economic outcomes are realized later in life.

  Gwen Ifill

  Children, Two, Later In Life

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Today, we have our own concentrations of economic power. Instead of Standard Oil, U.S. Steel, the Union Pacific Railroad, and J. P. Morgan and Company, we have Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft.

  George Packer

  Oil, Apples, Google

  "Where Have All the Workers Gone?" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. February 24, 2014.

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• In business, I look for economic castles protected by unbreachable 'moats'.

  Warren Buffett

  Castles, Moats, Looks

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.63, John Wiley & Sons

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• When a war is waged by two opposing groups of robbers for the sake of deciding who shall have a freer hand to oppress more people, then the question of the origin of the war is of no real economic or political significance.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Real, War, Hands

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• We shall not bind ourselves by treaties. We shall not allow ourselves to be entangled by treaties. We reject all clauses on plunder and violence, but we shall welcome all clauses containing provisions for good-neighbourly relations and all economic agreements; we cannot reject these.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Agreement, Violence, Welcome

  "Concluding Speech Following the Discussion on the Report of Peace (October 26/November 8, 1917)". Collected Works, Volume 26, www.marxists.org.

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• Whoever wants to reach socialism by any other path than that of political democracy will inevitably arrive at conclusions that are absurd and reactionary both in the economic and the political sense.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Political, Democracy, Want

  "Two Tactics of Social Democracy in the Democratic Revolution". "Collected Works", 9, Marxists, (p. 29), 1905.

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• A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce.

  Rod Blagojevich

  Successful, Skills, Focus

  "Gov. Blagojevich Announces Major Opportunity Returns Investment to Bring Leading Manufacturer and 480 Jobs to Macomb". Illinois Government Network, February 22, 2005.

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• We have lots of studies about what's wrong with our education system. We need to accept responsibility, be bold, find solutions and move forward to make education a centerpiece of our economic development.

  Christine Gregoire

  Moving, Responsibility, Needs

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• There is a massive economic opportunity out there to be taken without waiting for government legislation.

  Ellen MacArthur

  Taken, Opportunity, Government

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• Sustainability is a seemingly laudable goal - it tells us we need to live within our means, whether economic, ecological, or political - but it's insufficient for uncertain times. How can we live within our means when those very means can change, swiftly and unexpectedly, beneath us?

  Jamais Cascio

  Mean, Goal, Political

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• President Reagan, Jack Kemp and other advocates of supply-side economics understood that pro-growth tax, spending and economic policies were essential to America's long-term economic and fiscal health.

  Bob Beauprez

  America, Long, Growth

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• How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support network is in place at the site of arrival.

  Daniel Alarcon

  Land, Support, Emigration

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• In the distance, I see a frightful storm brewing in the form of un-tethered government debt. I choose the words -“frightful storm' - deliberately to avoid hyperbole. Unless we take steps to deal with it, the long-term fiscal situation of the federal government will be unimaginably more devastating to our economic prosperity than the subprime debacle and the recent debauching of credit markets that we are working right now so hard to correct.

  Richard W. Fisher

  Distance, Government, Long

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• Walmart's Global Women's Economic Empowerment Initiative is working to create opportunity and empower women and girls in markets around the world.

  Sylvia Mathews Burwell

  Girl, Opportunity, Empowering

  "Helping Women Achieve a Common Dream" by Sylvia Mathews Burwell, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 11, 2012.

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• Peace should be understood in a human way - in a broad social, political and economic way. Peace is threatened by unjust economic, social and political order, absence of democracy, environmental degradation and absence of human rights.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Rights, Order, Political

  Muhammad Yunus (2007). “Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism”, p.229, Hachette UK

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• Today's reports confirm that, unfortunately, post-crisis America is still not back to its good economic self.

  Mohamed El-Erian

  Self, America, Today

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• The Obama administration's agenda of maximizing dependency involves political favoritism cloaked in the raiment of "economic planning" and "social justice" that somehow produce results superior to what markets produce when freedom allows merit to manifest itself, and incompetence to fail. The administration's central activity - the political allocation of wealth and opportunity - is not merely susceptible to corruption, it is corruption.

  George Will

  Opportunity, Justice, Political

  "Tincture of Lawlessness". www.realclearpolitics.com. May 14, 2009.

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• Freedom of mind and mind itself have been most fully developed in regions where trade developed at the same time. In all ages, without exception, every intense production of art, ideas, and spiritual values has occurred in some locality where a remarkable degree of economic activity was also manifest.

  Paul Valery

  Spiritual, Art, Ideas

  "Reflections on the World Today" by Paul Valery, (pp. 167-168), 1931.

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• It is doubly chimerical to build peace on economic foundations which, in turn, rest on the systematic cultivation of greed and envy, the very forces which drive men into conflict.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Men, Envy, Greed

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• It takes a certain brashness to attack the accepted economic legendsbut noneat all toperpetuatethem. So theyare perpetuated.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Accepted, Certain

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• Economic theory is the most prestigious subject of instruction and study. Agricultural economics, labor economics and marketing are lower caste fields of study.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Marketing, Fields, Study

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2015). “The New Industrial State”, p.154, Princeton University Press

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