Economic Quotes - Page 28

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• To recover from the current economic downturn, it has been estimated that we need to create on the order of 17 million to 20 million new jobs in the coming decade...And it's very hard to imagine where those jobs are going to come from unless we seriously get busy reinventing manufacturing.

  Susan Hockfield

  Jobs, Order, New Job

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• A few years ago the idea that extreme poverty was harmful was on the fringes of the economic and political debate. But having made the case we are now seeing an emerging consensus among business leaders, economic leaders, political leaders and even faith leaders.

  Winnie Byanyima

  Years, Ideas, Leader

  "New Oxfam report says half of global wealth held by the 1%" by Larry Elliott, Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2015.

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• Global trade has advantages. For starters, it allows those of us who live through winter to eat fresh produce year-round. And it provides economic benefits to farmers who grow that food.

  David Suzuki

  Winter, Years, Benefits

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• There are going to be a lot of questions, not just in my country, but across the Middle East. Is Israel going to continue to be "Fortress Israel"? Or, as we all hope, become accepted into the neighborhood, which I believe is the only way we can move forward in harmony. And no matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment - the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.

  Abdallah II

  Country, Spring, Moving Forward

  Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. September 22, 2011.

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• You can't have a healthy economy without sound money, which is why we're on the verge of very serious economic problem.

  Ron Paul

  Healthy, Sound, Serious

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The "environmental movement" is becoming an economic movement, is joining the social justice movement, is becoming a sustainability movement. It's leaving behind the "People's Needs versus Nature's Needs" conflict in favor of making the case for environmental health as the essential underpinning of prosperous and stable human civilization.

  Edward Norton

  Environmental Health, Civilization, Justice

  "Dialogues on the Environment: Q&A With Edward Norton". Interview with Mark Tercek, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2013.

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• It's important that we recognize how extreme the Republicans are in almost every case and how against our self-interest it is to vote for them whether or not we are disappointed with the current crew. At least they believe in the Constitution. At least they have an idea of economic justice. The Republicans are devoted to creating more rich folks.

  Gloria Steinem

  Believe, Self, Ideas

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 28, 2010.

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• It's the biggest economic influence in a woman's life whether she can decide when and whether to have children or not.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Influence

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• The only economic paradigm that movies have ever known is capitalism. There were no church sponsors or state patronage. The idea was that if you'd pay to see it, we'll make it for you.

  Paul Schrader

  Ideas, Church, Pay

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• If small business goes, big business does not have any future except to become the economic arm of a totalitarian state.

  Philip D. Reed

  Doe, Arms, Small Business

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• The clinical definition of "fascism" is when private concentrated economic power takes government away from the people, turns government into a guarantor, a subsidizer, a covering of corporate power.

  Ralph Nader

  Power, Government, People

  "Ralph Nader on the Candidates, Corporate Power and His Own Plans for 2008". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. July 9, 2007.

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• One needs either equality or political and economic superiority.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Political, Needs, Superiority

  Andrea Dworkin (2000). “Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel and Womens' Liberation”, p.336, Simon and Schuster

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