David Miliband Quotes About Economics

Quotes about: Economics

• Turning every business into an environmental industry will involve applying new principles...first, we need to make more with less...second, we need to design out waste...third, we must begin to decarbonise our energy supply

  David Miliband

  Business, Design, Environmental

• In the future, every industry should be an environmental industry. In a world where energy and carbon emissions are constrained, every business must take resource productivity seriously

  David Miliband

  Business, Carbon Emissions, Environmental

• I'm a great believer in the Arsene Wenger school of management - which is, you don't worry about the opposition, you just get your own act together.

  David Miliband

  Business, School, Worry

  "We nearly threw it away. We must be more radical". Interview with Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2006.

• Today, the UK must be the pioneer of a new model of economic change, that integrates social and environmental consideration. This is not just a question of values and moral duty. It is about our economy's capacity to sustain itself

  David Miliband

  Business, Environmental, Pioneers

• Economic dynamism can be combined with environmental and social responsibility. High financial returns can go hand in hand with respect for human rights, and the preservation of the planet's natural resources

  David Miliband

  Business, Responsibility, Rights

• Thirty years ago, if you said the country was living beyond its means, people would have thought about economics. Now, if you talk about the country, or the planet living beyond its means, you think about the environment. We are taking out more than we are giving back. We are consuming energy, water, and other natural resources in a way that is leading to huge and often irreversible damage to the planet. So too are most other developed nations. And so too will China and India if they follow the same path of economic development as us

  David Miliband

  Country, Mean, Thinking

• One of the jewels in the crown of Labour's time in office was the rescue of the National Health Service. As the Commonwealth Fund, the London School of Economics and the Nuffield Foundation have all shown, health reforms as well as additional investment were essential to improved outcomes, especially for poorer patients.

  David Miliband

  School, Jewels, Office

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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