Economy Quotes - Page 7

• To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.

  Alvin Toffler

  Business, Thinking, Textiles

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• You know there are very few Marxists left in the world... they're all in American universities.

  Milton Friedman

  America, World, Economic

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• In todays economy, the most important resource is no longer labor, capital or land; it is knowledge

  Peter Drucker

  Land, Important, Today

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• The more one considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of free income from the richer to the poorer, as we imagined, than a redistribution of power from the individual to the State.

  Bertrand de Jouvenel

  Power, Government, Matter

  Baron Bertrand de Jouvenel, Bertrand De Jouvenel (2010). “The Ethics of Redistribution”, p.73, Cambridge University Press

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• Nothing contributes so much to the prosperity and happiness of a country as high profits.

  David Ricardo

  Happiness, Happy, Country

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1846). “The Works of David Ricardo ...”, p.474

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• I am excited about focusing full-time on talking about my job-creation agenda and building a new economy for Washington state. We have a great chance to seize our own destiny, build our own industries, and create our own technological revolutions right here at home.

  Jay Inslee

  Jobs, Home, Destiny

  "Jay Inslee, Washington Congressman, Resigning To Focus On Gubernatorial Campaign" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 10, 2012.

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• The confidence is really driven by the woman - whether she can have the confidence that there will be enough earning or income to finance all the domestic spending - but also by the middle-income class, which for many Asian countries has become the growth power for the economy.

  Sri Mulyani Indrawati

  Country, Class, Growth

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• When a woman earns a dollar, the payback is higher. She'll invest in her children, in their education, health care, and basic needs. The impact of a woman's role in the economy benefits society at large.

  Andrea Jung

  Children, Impact, Dollars

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• I became CEO at the beginning of the hit on old economy stocks. When something like that occurs in your first six months as a CEO of a more traditional branded firm, it makes for a fast learning curve.

  Andrea Jung

  Curves, Six Months, Firsts

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• None of us has control over the economy, the job market, or anything else in the global sense. But we are 100% in charge of how we respond to challenges that come our way, be it the loss of a job, a career derailment, or some other disappointment.

  Edward Whitacre, Jr.

  Jobs, Disappointment, Loss

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• Tonight Illinois has set a tone for the nation, that we won't stand idle hoping that our economy improves. This is a brand new day for the Illinois Republican Party.

  Adam Kinzinger

  Party, Illinois, New Day

  "Kinzinger topples Manzullo in Illinois" by Alex Isenstadt and David Catanese, www.politico.com. March 21, 2012.

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• Our economy is built upon convergent thinkers, people that execute things, get them done. But artists and designers are divergent thinkers: they expand the horizon of possibilities.

  John Maeda

  Artist, People, Horizon

  "John Maeda: Innovation is born when art meets science". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2010.

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• The more we can get Washington out of the way, the stronger our economy and our country will be.

  Josh Mandel

  Country, Stronger, Way

  "Glenn interviews Marco Rubio and Josh Mandel". Interview with Glenn Beck, www.glennbeck.com. November 2, 2012.

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• Small businesses are really the engine in the economy.

  Karen Mills

  Small Business, Engines

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• If all you think we need to do to get this economy going and get this country on the right track is to cut government and reduce taxes, you don't understand America. America is a moral enterprise, not an economic enterprise.

  Rick Santorum

  Country, Cutting, Thinking

  "Rick Santorum Plans Offensive Against Mitt Romney, Ron Paul In South Carolina" by Shushannah Walshe, abcnews.go.com. January 15, 2012.

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• But certainly I didn't know he was doing anything that was criminal.

  Kenneth Lay

  Criminals, Knows

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• But I can't take responsibility for criminal conduct of somebody inside the company.

  Kenneth Lay

  Responsibility, Criminals, Company

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• I knew German history well, and out of my experiences in the rest of the world I believed to know the German kind; therefore I never doubted that, although for the time being all indications were against it, one day a change would come.

  Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach

  One Day, German History, World

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• The West has been able to bring Afghanistan a much better health service, better education, better roads, a better economy, though some have benefited more; some have benefited less from that economic well-being in Afghanistan.

  Hamid Karzai

  Able, West, Economic

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• The American economy has always been the innovator in the world, and we're starting to see some tremendous increases in innovation, especially in the clean energy sector.

  Tim Kaine

  Innovation, Energy, World

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• The first bill that President Obama signed into law was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. I think it says something about his priorities that the first bill he put his name on has my name on it too. As he said that day with me by his side, "Making our economy work means making sure it works for everyone."

  Lilly Ledbetter

  Mean, Thinking, Law

  Lilly Ledbetter's speech at the Democratic National Convention, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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• In the 1980s, we were advised, why don't you follow Reaganomics or Thatcherite economics. We said, yes, there are good points, let's see how we can fit them in the Indian economy. Every country has its own way of moving forward.

  Pranab Mukherjee

  Country, Moving, Way

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• The spy boom has been a beautiful windfall for architects, construction companies, IT specialists, and above all defense contractors, enriching thousands of private companies and dozens of local economies hugging the Capital Beltway.

  Rachel Maddow

  Beautiful, Hug, Spy

  Rachel Maddow (2012). “Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power”, p.6, Broadway Books

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• I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food.

  Thomas Malthus

  Men, Earth, Able

  Thomas Robert Malthus (1959). “Population: The First Essay”, p.4, University of Michigan Press

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• It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.

  Thomas Malthus

  Philosophy, Theory, Experiments

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated”, p.11, eKitap Projesi

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