Economy Quotes - Page 16

• The conditions conducive to deep thought have become increasingly rare in our highly mediated lives... Now we live in an attention economy, where the most in-demand commodity is 'eyeballs.

  Laura Miller

  Deep Thought, Attention, Demand

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• People think that their vote counts. They go to college, and everything gets mixed up. People stop caring, ... They raise the gas prices, but what the Everyman makes and welfare never seem to keep up. The HMO system is so ridiculous. I'm slightly educated. No one wants to hear what Hilary Duff thinks of the economy.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Caring, College, Thinking

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• Whatever reforms are carried out in the economy, without deep going changes in men?s mentality ? in their opinion about femininity ? women?s equality may not be possible.

  Velupillai Prabhakaran

  Women, Reform, May

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• The economy has settled into a sustainable, self-reinforcing growth path, .. All major categories of the economy have contributed to economic growth. Now that businesses have begun to add to payrolls, the current expansion is self-reinforcing. Only external shocks, such as terrorist attacks or a surge in oil prices, could derail the recovery.

  Sung Won Sohn

  Recovery, Self, Oil

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• To the extent that hiring in high-wage, developed economies continues to lag, the sustainability of any impetus to private consumption can be drawn into serious question.

  Stephen S. Roach

  Lag, Serious, Wages

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• Not understanding the process of a spontaneously-ordered economy goes hand-in-hand with not understanding the creation of resources and wealth. And when a person does not understand the creation of resources and wealth, the only intellectual alternative is to believe that increasing wealth must be at the cost of someone else. This belief that our good fortune must be an exploitation of others may be the taproot of false prophecy about doom that our evil ways must bring upon us.

  Julian Simon

  Believe, Hands, Evil

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• It is beyond doubt that the chief motive of Vegetarianism is the humane one. Questions of hygiene and of economy both play their part, and an important part, in a full discussion of food reform; but the feeling which underlies and animates the whole movement is the instinctive horror of butchery, especially the butchery of the more highly organized animals, so human, so near akin to man.

  Henry Stephens Salt

  Men, Animal, Vegetarianism

  "The Humanities of Diet". Book by Henry Stephens Salt, 1897.

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• Anyone who thinks that people can be fooled or pushed around has an inaccurate and pretty low estimate of people - and he won't do very well in advertising.

  Leo Burnett

  Educational, Thinking, People

  Leo Burnett (1961). “Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett”

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• The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.

  Leo Burnett

  New Relationship, Design, Secret

  Leo Burnett (1961). “Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett”

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• The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line.

  Leo Burnett

  Dream, Agency, Needs

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• There is no such thing as a permanent advertising success.

  Leo Burnett

  Advertising, Permanent

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• We live in an information economy. The problem is that information's usually impossible to get, at least in the right place, at the right time.

  Steve Jobs

  Information, Impossible, Obstacles

  Robert X. Cringley for a Public Broadcasting System [PBS] television series, "Triumph of the Nerds" (1995), "The Lost Interview: Steve Jobs Tells Us What Really Matters", Forbes, Steve Denning, November 17, 2011.

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• Republicans simply don't know how to manage the economy.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Republican, Know How, Knows

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• The economy has made me think I have no power. That is not true. I control the power to change my future.

  Jon Jones

  Inspirational, Thinking, Made

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• Indeed, as we begin the twenty-first century, the money and traditional economies are slowly destroying their own support system. Increasing demands of the two economies are surpassing the sustainable yields of the ecosystems that underpin them. For example, one-third of the world's cropland is losing topsoil at a rate that is undermining its long-term productivity, fully half of the world's rangeland is overgrazed and deteriorating into desert, and the world's forests have shrunk by about half since the dawn of agriculture and are continuing to shrink.

  Stuart L. Hart

  Support Systems, Yield, Land

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• The Recovery Act, which helped saved the economy and prevented us going into the Great Depression, was the largest investment in green technology, the largest investment in education. We rebuilt roads and bridges.

  Barack Obama

  Recovery, Technology, Bridges

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• If you do the things that Britain needs to do - namely, withdraw from NATO, get rid of the bomb, and stop being aligned with one side of the Cold War - then presumably the run on the pound, the result in the stock exchanges of the world, will be fairly catastrophic for the economy. But some sort of political realignment is plainly what this country needs.

  David Hare

  Running, Country, War

  "New Again: David Hare". Interview with Kathleen Tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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• The U.S. economy and workers benefit from a strong, healthy relationship between government and business.

  Harold Ford, Jr.

  Strong, Government, Healthy

  "A little advice for Obama at the half" by Harold Ford, Jr., fortune.com. November 18, 2010.

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• Today's business model is bad for people, bad for the economy and bad for stability and democracy.

  Sharan Burrow

  People, Democracy, Today

  "Davos: unions call for businesses to share fruits of growth with employees" by Larry Elliott, Jill Treanor, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2015.

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• The progressive historical role of capitalism may be summed up in two brief propositions: increase in the productive forces of social labour, and the socialisation of that labour. But both these facts manifest themselves in extremely diverse processes in different branches of the national economy.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Two, Historical, Different

  "The Development of Capitalism in Russia". Book by Vladimir Lenin. Chapter VIII: "The Formation of the Home Market", www.marxists.org. 1899.

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• The Marxist doctrine is omnipotent because it is true. It is comprehensive and harmonious, and provides men with an integral world outlook irreconcilable with any form of superstition, reaction, or defence of bourgeois oppression. It is the legitimate successor to the best that man produced in the nineteenth century, as represented by German philosophy, English political economy and French socialism.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Philosophy, Men, Political

  Vladimir Il'ich Lenin (1975). “Izbrannye Proizvedenii͡a V Trekh Tomakh”

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• Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds - it's the production of food and fiber from the world's land and waters. Without agriculture it is not possible to have a city, stock market, banks, university, church or army. Agriculture is the foundation of civilization and any stable economy.

  Allan Savory

  Food, Army, Agriculture

  "Holistic Management: A New Framework for Decision Making". Book by Allan Savory and Jody Butterfield, 1999.

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• Nobody disputes that cheap natural gas would be a good thing for the economy. The question is, is this a sustainable new development that can be counted on for decades to come, or simply a 'bubble' brought on by a land grab and drilling frenzy?

  Jeff Goodell

  Land, Would Be, Development

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• Games are work. There are economies popping up in games now because people value them.

  Jane McGonigal

  Games, People, Popping

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• A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Evil, Giving, Checks

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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