Economy Quotes - Page 14

• We also know that China and India, as their economies ramp up, are using more and more energy.

  Gale Norton

  Energy, India, China

  "Interior Secretary Gale Norton". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. March 9, 2005.

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• Heads know that failing to invest in good, nutritious food is a false economy and parents won't tolerate reconstituted turkey being put back on the menu.

  Jamie Oliver

  Turkeys, Parent, Failing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The most important feature of an information economy, in which information is defined as surprise, is the overthrow, not the attainment, of equilibrium. The science that we have come to know as information theory establishes the supremacy of the entrepreneur because it appreciates the powerful connection between destruction and what Schumpeter described as "creative destruction," between chaos and creativity.

  George Gilder

  Powerful, Creativity, Appreciate

  George Gilder (2013). “Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World”, p.33, Regnery Publishing

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• Labor was marching toward the goal of industrial democracy and contributing constructively toward a more rational arrangement of our domestic economy.

  John L. Lewis

  Goal, Democracy, Rational

  Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.

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• To be a leader in this new economy, you have to love risk-which means patterning your life on the heroic, not on the strategic. Acting boldly is better than acting knowingly.

  Harriet Rubin

  Mean, Leader, Risk

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• Technology has changed things, same as everywhere. But the economy has changed drastically. When Jamaica first won independence, our dollar was stronger than the U.S. dollar. Now ours is about 90 to one. That's had a big impact on crime and poverty.

  Damian Marley

  Technology, Jamaica, Impact

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

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• Republican governors are leading the way in helping the private sector create new jobs, reforming government and getting our economy back on track.

  Bob McDonnell

  Jobs, Government, Track

  "Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell Named RGA Chairman". www.rga.org. August 15, 2011.

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• Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.

  Ed Markey

  School, Technology, Engineering

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• Home Star is a common sense idea that would create jobs and provide a boost to local economies, while helping families afford their energy bills. By encouraging homeowners to invest in energy efficiency retrofits, Home Star would create 170,000 manufacturing and construction jobs that could not be outsourced to China.

  Peter Welch

  Stars, Jobs, Home

  "Creating Jobs by Investing in Energy Efficiency" by Peter Welch, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 5, 2010.

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• The rhetoric on the Hill is getting very heated and it's getting quite dangerous. The gun is at the head of the American economy and Congress is holding it and its got a hair trigger. We've got to pay our bills.

  Peter Welch

  Gun, Hair, Pay

  "Arena Profile: Rep. Peter Welch". Interview with Erika Lovley, www.politico.com. July 18, 2011.

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• Democrats can neither control nor predict whether our GOP counterparts are really ready to play chicken with the U.S. economy. But we can assure the American people that our party takes the nation's faith and credit seriously.

  Peter Welch

  Party, Play, People

  "Playing chicken with U.S. economy". www.politico.com. March 17, 2011.

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• Writing good ads is easy when you have something to say.

  Roy H. Williams

  Writing, Easy, Ads

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• Too-easy credit and millions of bad loans made during the U.S. housing bubble paved the way for the financial calamity and Great Recession that followed. Today, by contrast, credit is too tight. Mortgage loans are particularly hard to get, creating a problem for the housing market and the broader economy.

  Mark Zandi

  Creating, Credit, Today

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• I went back to graduate school with the clear intention that what I wanted to do with my life was to improve societies, and the way to do that was to find out what made economies work the way they did or fail to work.

  Douglass North

  School, Way, Graduates

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• The free-trade idea, logically applied, will abolish usury; and with usury will disappear the chief bone of contention between labor and capital. But, just at this point, free-traders go over to the enemy; and many writers on political economy, in flat contradiction of the essential principles of that science, have made elaborate arguments to prove self-government in finance, impossible! What shall we think of men who, having dethroned kings, demolished popes, destroyed slave oligarchies and assailed tariff monopoly, advise submission to the most oppressive and dishonest of despotisms, Usury?

  Ezra Heywood

  Kings, Men, Thinking

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• In the next decade, we need to think and act like revolutionaries. We have to innovate, not merely imitate. We will succeed not be following the footsteps of the incumbent, but by introducing new dimensions into play. We need Singaporeans who can lead the way in creating new wealth for our economy.

  Goh Chok Tong

  Thinking, Introducing New, Play

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• Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.

  Booker T. Washington

  Character, Men, Skills

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• To my mind, there is a solution which has to do with democracy, because democratic governments are subject to the will of the people. So, if the people will it, you can actually create international institutions through the democratic states.

  George Soros

  Government, People, Mind

  Interview with Mark Shapiro, September 05, 2000.

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• Hating clouds the mind. It gets in the way of strategy. Leaders cannot afford to hate

  Nelson Mandela

  Wisdom, Hate, Clouds

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• Near-term deficits are temporary and manageable if - and only if - we keep spending in check, the tax burden low and the economy growing.

  Jim Nussle

  Ifs And, Growing, Burden

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• Teach economy. That is one of the first and highest virtues. It begins with saving money.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Saving, Firsts, Virtue

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• Everyone says Francois Mitterrand had huge charisma. But before he was president they used to call him badly dressed, old, archaic and say he knew nothing about the economy until the day he was elected. It's called universal suffrage. When you're elected, you become the person that embodies France.

  Francois Hollande

  President, France, Used

  "François Hollande: from marshmallow man to Sarkozy's nemesis?" by Angelique Chrisafis, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2012.

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• The people of the United States don't recognize it, but the oil industry has given the greatest gift to the people of the nation, and that gift is the low cost of energy. Bottom line is this enables the country to be very competitive manufacturing-wise and in the world economy.

  Ray L. Hunt

  Wise, Country, Oil

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• In the future, it's going to become more and more impossible for the economy to support how expensive medical care is and the number of sick people we have. Why don't we just get our population healthier so we don't need medical care?

  Joel Fuhrman

  Numbers, Sick, People

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• You would have thought that our first priority would be to ask what the ecologists are finding out, because we have to live within the conditions and principles they define. Instead, we've elevated the economy above ecology.

  David Suzuki

  Priorities, Principles, Would Be

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