Gdp Quotes - Page 5

• Equity, dignity, happiness, sustainability - these are all fundamental to our lives but absent in the GDP.

  Helen Clark

  Fundamentals, Dignity, Sustainability

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• While we have put an utmost emphasis on Gross Domestic Products (GDP) as a barometer for the overall economy until now, we have not paid much attention in detecting a level of social welfare. We, as a member of the society, must now take steps to create an index to indicate other critical elements to be focused on in order to restore reliability of world statistics.

  Jose Angel Gurria

  Order, Elements, World

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• You won't be reading reviews of the dystopian sci-fi flick Aeon Flux in the papers today because it wasn't screened for the press-and, given that it cost the GDP of a small country and that Charlize Theron and the director, Karyn Kusama, are critics' darlings, this could mean but one thing: A stinker. A weapon of mass destruction. A planet-killer. Folks, I'll never understand studios. Aeon Flux is not that terrible.

  David Edelstein

  Country, Reading, Mean

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• I think the main figure that matters to all of us, including people in the media, is: How does GDP per capita grow? And those figures have been very good. There is a huge flux both up and down, so it isn't like we're all static in status. What's important is that pie grows.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Media, Pie

  "Berkshire Behind the Scenes: Part 2". Interview with Rick Casterline, www.fool.com. May 27, 2006.

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• The quality of the medical care delivered, including the pharmaceutical industry, has improved a lot. I don't think it's crazy for a rich country like the USto spend 15% of GDP on healthcare, and if it rose to 16-17%, it's not a big worry.

  Charlie Munger

  Country, Crazy, Thinking

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• It's my guess that something like 5% of GDP goes to money management and itsattendant friction. I define it broadly - annuities, incentive pay, all trading, etc. Nobody else has used figures that high, but that's my guess. Worst of all, the people doing this are among the best and the brightest. Hundreds and thousands of engineers, etc. are going into hedge funds and investment banking. That is not an intelligent allocation of the brainpower of the civilization.

  Charlie Munger

  Intelligent, Civilization, People

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• Six percent, 5 percent of our GDP for him [Vladimir Putin] to match us, he has to spend 25 percent of his GDP and it will bankrupt his country.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Country, Six, Putin

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• You have these crops of poppies that supply something like 90% of the heroin sold in Europe and actually represents more than half of the Afghanistan's GDP.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Europe, Half, Poppies

  Source: www.diablomag.com

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• Is it in the UK's interests to leave the EU? It depends on your values. The answer can't be read off of GDP statistics under various scenarios or some measures of global influence.

  Dale Jamieson

  Answers, Statistics, Influence

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The political establishment has brought about the destruction of our factories, and our jobs, as they flee to Mexico, China and other countries all around the world. Our just-announced job numbers are anemic. Our gross domestic product, or GDP, is barely above 1 percent. And going down. Workers in the United States are making less than they were almost 20 years ago, and yet they are working harder.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Jobs, Numbers

  Trump's campaign rally in West Palm Beach, FL, October 13, 2016.

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• From the recycling miracles in the soil; an army of predators ridding us of unwanted pests; an abundance of life creating a genetic codebook that underpins our food, pharmaceutical industries and much more, it has been estimated that these and other services are each year worth about double global GDP

  Tony Juniper

  Nature, Army, Creating

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• I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta, drinking wine. It's in my blood. I need it.

  Franco Nero

  Crazy, Drinking, Wine

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• Western Buddhists in many ways are much serious Buddhists than Tibetans are.

  Richard Gere

  Buddhist, Way, Serious

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• It is born to every Western girl to like outdoor life and to do all kinds of wild, daring things.

  Pearl White

  Girl, Kind, Born

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• Today's market action is driven by the slower GDP growth rate. Despite oil being higher, I think the GDP kind of overruled everything and just makes the market feel better about what the Fed is going to do, or rather not do.

  L'Wren Scott

  Feel Better, Thinking, Oil

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• If I can save 25 billion dollars in terms of reduction of import, I will be adding one percent to the GDP. By conserving the oil energy by the people, the GDP will become 5.5 percent, and this will change the economy of the country.

  Veerappa Moily

  Country, Oil, People

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• Charitable giving in the United States has remained at 2% of GDP since 1970.

  Jeff Henderson

  Leadership, Christian, Giving

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• Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.

  Kenneth Clark

  Men, Opera, Next

  Kenneth Clark, British Broadcasting Corporation (1970). “Civilization”, London : British Broadcasting Corporation

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• I think we have a society which is spending more and more of its money on healthcare as a percent of GDP as a percent of a lot of things. I think that's a measure of success.

  Dean Kamen

  Thinking, Healthcare, Spending

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. June 9, 2009.

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• All of our competitors around the world, every country is investing more in infrastructure as a percentage of their GDP than we are. And down the road our children and grandchildren will have to compete with that more and more.

  Douglas R Oberhelman

  Country, Children, Investing

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• I'm going to create tremendous jobs. And we're bringing GDP from, really, 1 percent, which is what it is now, and if Hillary Clinton got in, it will be less than zero. But we're bringing it from 1 percent up to 4 percent. And I actually think we can go higher than 4 percent. I think you can go to 5 percent or 6 percent.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Zero, Thinking

  The third presidential debate between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

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• What the Affordable Care Act started was a change in the American health care system from paying for procedures to paying for outcomes, paying for health. Other nations have already made that move. We pay for procedures and we get the best procedures in the world and we get the most procedures in the world, and then we spend a huge chunk of our GDP on health care, but we don't have the best outcomes.

  Tim Kaine

  Moving, Outcomes, Pay

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Nations that pay for outcomes and health actually spend a lower percentage of GDP, and they have better outcomes. And so the Affordable Care Act is starting to make that migration, but we've got to keep down that path, and we'll improve outcomes and reduce cost.

  Tim Kaine

  Migration, Path, Affordable Care Act

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I'm not worried they're all about the investments we make. I mean, listen, this country - we've got $46,000 or $47,000 of GDP per capita. Now, we've done pretty darn well. We'll do better in the future.

  Warren Buffett

  Country, Mean, Done

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". Interview With Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• We've actually been pretty good on exports. I mean we are exporting 12% of our GDP now roughly.

  Warren Buffett

  Mean, Exporting

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