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• The last thing they want is a revitalized economy now. I'm not saying the Democrats don't want a strong economy. Don't misunderstand. They just don't want it now.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Strong, Want, Lasts

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• In this global economy, no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost, skilled labor overseas are an explosive combination.

  Bob Taft

  Jobs, Connections, Cost

  "The Jobs Agenda". Bob Taft's State of the State Address, 2004.

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• The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as the Italian proverb says, "The man that lives by hope, will die by despair.

  Joseph Addison

  Italian, Men, Despair

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• Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow the vulgar great, the vainly rich, the miserable proud, the mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings, and with blind feelings reverence the power that grinds them to the dust of misery.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Kings, Power, Dust

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.10

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• Economy is a way of spending money without getting any pleasure out of it.

  Armand Salacrou

  Way, Pleasure, Spending

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• With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.

  Barack Obama

  College, Community, Employment

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• Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?

  John Foster

  Book, Reading, Order

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• No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Mean, Rich, Poor

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1859). “Nature and Human Nature”, p.279

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• In the dog-eat-dog economy, the Doberman is boss.

  Edward Abbey

  Funny, Dog, Boss

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• The statists want to control the economy.

  Grover Norquist

  Want

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• Qualities not regulated run into their opposites. Economy before competence is meanness after it. Therefore economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Running, Opposites, Quality

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• The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.

  Alan Greenspan

  Numbers, Generations, Today's Generation

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• People ask me, how is managing in the New Economy different from managing in the Old Economy? Actually, it's a lot the same. It's about the financial discipline of the bottom line, understanding your customers, segmenting your customers by their needs, and building a world-class management team.

  Meg Whitman

  Team, Class, Discipline

  Interview with Stephen B. Shepard, www.bloomberg.com. March 19, 2001.

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• Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence.

  Brooks Stevens

  Environmental, Sustainability, Obsolescence

  Quoted in Vance Packard The Waste Makers (1960), ch.6. This is thought to be the first use of the phrase 'planned obsolescence'.

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• Our economy is robust and will remain strong as more Americans who want a job find one. Republican economic policies based on tax relief are working for the American people.

  Dennis Hastert

  Strong, Jobs, People

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• Economy is half the battle in life, but it is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well. Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Money, Battle, Half

  "John Ploughman's Talks".

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• According to the Bank of England the economy is growing too fast so interest rates must rise to counter the supposed inflationary threat.

  Harry Enfield

  Growing, England, Threat

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• A collapse in U.S. stock prices certainly would cause a lot of white knuckles on Wall Street. But what effect would it have on the broader U.S. economy? If Wall Street crashes, does Main Street follow? Not necessarily.

  Ben Bernanke

  Wall, White, Doe

  "A Crash Course for Central Bankers" by Ben Bernanke, foreignpolicy.com. November 20, 2009.

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• Politics is about power. It is about the power of the state. It is about the power of the state as applied to individuals, the society in which they live and the economy in which they work. Most critically, our responsibility in this parliament is how that power is used: whether it is used for the benefit of the few or the many.

  Kevin Rudd

  Leadership, Responsibility, Power

  Kevin Rudd (2017). “Not for the Faint-hearted: A Personal Reflection on Life, Politics and Purpose 1957-2007”, p.9, Macmillan Publishers Aus.

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• One only has to look at the performance of the economy to understand how it shapes the perspective of America's youth about military service.

  John M. McHugh

  Military, America, Perspective

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• People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, People, Revenue

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• As our economy faces up to potential labour shortages due to our ageing population and as it moves to a new level of sophistication to compete with the rest of the world, we're going to need every Australian on board pulling their weight, rejoining the workforce, gaining new skills. Writing off individuals and communities suffering from poverty just creates a dead weight for our economy to drag along.

  Julia Gillard

  Jobs, Moving, Writing

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• The message from Wal-Mart today to the rest of the business community is there need not be any conflict between the environment and the economy. We will find the way not only to reconcile (those), but to find new profits and new opportunities as we do the right thing.

  Al Gore

  Business, Opportunity, Community

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• Be thrifty, but not covetous.

  George Herbert

  Thrifty, Economy And Economics

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.8

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• We see community organizations as major service providers and economic drivers rather than as recipients or distributors of charity, and coordinators of volunteers. Today they constitute what's referred to as 'the social economy'.

  Julia Gillard

  Organization, Volunteer, Community

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