Economic Growth Quotes - Page 9

• Getting the UK 'Climate Ready' has the potential to support economic growth for this country which should be a priority for all of us

  Rupert Ponsonby, 7th Baron de Mauley

  Country, Priorities, Support

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• A combination of very rapid population growth over the last 50 years and reckless economic growth during the same time has stored up massive problems for societies the world over. No nation is immune. The scientific evidence tells us all we need to know: carry on with business-as-usual growth-at-all-costs, and we're stuffed

  Jonathon Porritt

  Years, Growth, Usual

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• It was absolutely critical to renew the Bush tax cuts. Letting them expire would result in a massive tax increase that would retard economic growth.

  Mitt Romney

  Cutting, Growth, Economic

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• I wish someone would give me one shred of neutral evidence that financial innovation has led to economic growth — one shred of evidence.

  Paul Volcker

  Business, Giving, Innovation

  "‘Wake up, gentlemen’, world’s top bankers warned by former Fed chairman Volcker" by Patrick Hosking and Suzy Jagger, www.thetimes.co.uk. December 9, 2009.

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• It is clear that a temporary increase in the cap is needed to ensure high-tech companies can hire the specialized personnel they need to continue to help fuel California's economic growth.

  Pete Wilson

  Technology, California, Growth

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• This Budget reflects a choice - not an easy choice, but the right choice. And when you think about it, the only choice. The choice to take the responsible, prudent path to fiscal stability, economic growth and opportunity.

  George Pataki

  Opportunity, Thinking, Choices

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• The environmentalist's dream is an egalitarian society based on: rejection of economic growth, a smaller population, eating lower on the food chain, consuming a lot less, and sharing a much lower level of resources much more equally.

  Aaron Wildavsky

  Dream, Rejection, Growth

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• Continuing economic growth requires both recruitment of new companies and expansion of existing businesses.

  Phil Bredesen

  Growth, Expansion, Economic

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• We cannot choose between [economic] growth and sustainability - we must have both

  Paul Polman

  Business, Choices, Growth

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• The way to get a maximum rate of 'economic growth' assuming this to be our aim - is to give maximum encouragement to production, employment, saving, and investment. And the way to do this is to maintain a free market and a sound currency.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Encouragement, Giving, Growth

  Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.135, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• You need in the long run for stability, for economic growth, for jobs, as well as for financial stability, global economic institutions that make sure that growth to be sustained has to be shared, and are built on the principle that the prosperity of this world is indivisible.

  Gordon Brown

  Running, Jobs, Organization

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• If Ibsen's 'Enemy of the People' were alive today, he would recognize the ethic that has informed capitalist and communist countries alike - economic growth before public health and well-being. The true enemies of the people ar those who continue to sacrifice our long-term interests for short-term gains. But perhaps we should all look in the mirror.

  Susannah York

  Country, Sacrifice, Mirrors

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• Now is not the time to compromise on the economy. Instead, we should be doing everything in our power to support long-term economic growth. Permanent repeal of the death tax will mean more high-quality, high-paying jobs for Americans.

  Todd Tiahrt

  Jobs, Mean, Power

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• The mere possession of monopoly power, and the concomitant charging of monopoly prices, is not only not unlawful, it is an important element of the free-market system. The opportunity to charge monopoly prices - at least for a short period - is what attracts 'business acumen' in the first place; it induces risk taking that produces innovation and economic growth.

  Antonin Scalia

  Opportunity, Monopoly Power, Competition

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• In short, both experience and economic theory imply that the US could now t to a more competitive dollar without experiencing either increased inflation or decreased economic growth.

  Martin Feldstein

  Growth, Dollars, Economic

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• As a businessman, I know President Obama understands what it takes to spark economic growth, because I have seen him in action.

  Austin Ligon

  Growth, President, Sparks

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• Eventually economic growth reaches the point at which the accumulation of wealth in the families of achievers becomes so significant that the hatred and envy of success become stronger than the desire for continued economic growth, and a period dominated by resentment begins.

  Robert Sheaffer

  Envy, Hatred, Growth

  Robert Sheaffer (1988). “Resentment Against Achievement: Understanding the Assault Upon Ability”

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• Water is an astonishingly complex and subtle force in an economy. It is the single constraint on the expansion of every city, and bankers and corporate executives have cited it as the only natural limit to economic growth.

  Margaret Catley-Carlson

  Cities, Water, Growth

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• Our Government is fostering economic growth in Kitchener, Cambridge and all of the Waterloo Region by investing in our innovative businesses. Today's announcement is a great example of how we are helping high-potential companies bring great ideas to market faster. Helping our entrepreneurs and original thinkers export their products and services to the rest of the world creates jobs, growth and economic prosperity here at home.

  Gary Goodyear

  Jobs, Home, Ideas

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• When Mrs. Clinton ran for office, she promised economic growth across New York state, to bring in more than 200,000 jobs, ... She has not. We have lost jobs to outsourcing and globalization and to sending our jobs and industries to foreign countries.

  David Brenner

  Country, Jobs, New York

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• With a chip on his shoulder larger than his margin of victory, Barack Obama is approaching his second term by replicating the mistake of his first. Then his overreaching involved health care - expanding the entitlement state at the expense of economic growth. Now he seeks another surge of statism, enlarging the portion of gross domestic product grasped by government and dispensed by politics. The occasion is the misnamed "fiscal cliff," the proper name for which is: the Democratic Party's agenda.

  George Will

  Mistake, Party, Government

  "A cliff of Democrats' choosing" by George Will, www.washingtonpost.com. November 28, 2012.

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• The impact of climate change is relatively small. The average impact on welfare is equivalent to losing a few per cent of income. That is, the impact of a century worth of climate change is comparable to the impact of one or two years of economic growth.

  Richard Tol

  Impact, Average, Years

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• This investment will provide capital to help high-potential start-up companies transition from product development to market entry, while also providing skills training to help them position themselves to be more attractive to investors and commercial partners. We are pleased to support the entrepreneurial community in southern Ontario and contribute to economic growth and job creation.

  Gary Goodyear

  Jobs, Skills Training, Support

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• We have to have structural entitlement reform, major spending cuts and not tax increase-retardants on economic growth to reverse our current course toward national bankruptcy, but Obama steadfastly remains on the wrong side of all these solutions.

  David Limbaugh

  Cutting, Growth, Reform

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• Obamacare is the nation's biggest job killer and stands in the way of our country's economic growth and prosperity. It should be defunded and repealed. President Obama should hear the pleas from the untold number of Americans who are losing their jobs, wages, and healthcare plans, and Congress should act immediately to stop Obamacare from inflicting any more damage on the country on our hard-working citizens.

  Ted Cruz

  Country, Jobs, Hard Work

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