World Economy Quotes - Page 2

• The American president [George W. Bush] closes his eyes to the economic and human damages that are inflicted on his country and the world economy by natural disasters, like Katrina, through neglected climate protection.

  Jurgen Trittin

  Country, Eye, President

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• Maybe they'd use biological or chemical weapons instead. Maybe they'd crash the world economy. Maybe they'd turn every program on television into one of those reality shows." "That's mostly done already, Harry." "Oh. Well. I've got to believe that the world is worth saving anyway.

  Jim Butcher

  Believe, Reality, Weapons

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.2361, Penguin

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• Oil prices have certainly become a threat for the world economy.

  Rodrigo Rato

  Oil, World, Economy

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• Yes, twenty-seven million in slavery is a lot of people, but it is just .0043 percent of the world's population. Yes, $23 billion a year in slave-made products as services is a lot of money but it is exactly what Americans spent on Valentine's Day in 2005. If humans trafficking generates $32 billion in profits annually, that is still a tiny drop in the ocean of the world economy.

  Kevin Bales

  Valentine, Ocean, Years

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• What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia?

  Hans Rosling

  Country, Motivation, War

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• The entire world economy rests on the consumer;
  if he ever stops spending money he doesn't have
  on things he doesn't need -- we're done for.

  Bill Bonner

  Civilization, Needs, Done

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• Even small cults are a serious cost on the world economy, to victims, their families, employers, friends, and credit-card companies.

  Keith Henson

  Cards, Cost, Credit

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• Most people are great at absorbing information. Guerrilla marketing is needed because it gives small businesses a delightfully unfair advantage: certainty in an uncertain world, economy in a high-priced world, simplicity in a complicated world, marketing awareness in a clueless world.

  Jay Conrad Levinson

  Clueless, Complicated World, People

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• One thing I've learned from my short time trying to be a farmer is that our farmers have to be the bravest, most optimistic people in the world. To go back to the land year after year, after what nature throws at them and the world economy does to their income, takes a special kind of person.

  Sara Henderson

  Optimistic, Years, Land

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• You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.

  Wayne Swan

  Opportunity, World, Firsts

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

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• It is impossible to understand history, international politics, the world economy, religions, philosophy, or ‘patterns of culture’ without taking geography into account.

  Kenneth C. Davis

  Philosophy, Patterns, Culture

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• We escaped the last big bursting of a bubble - the dotcom bubble - with a relatively light U.S. recession. On that occasion, the world economy found its way back on track fairly quickly.

  Evan Davis

  Light, Track, Lasts

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• In a perfect world we would bring corporate tax rates down to 25% or less so we can get competitive in the world economy. Ultimately, I would love to see a flat tax.

  Eric Cantor

  Perfect, World, Economy

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• If you don't have a functioning financial system the world economy won't be revived. All the major economies have their responsibility to assist at a pace which is required to clean up the balance sheet of the banking system and to ensure that credit flows are resumed.

  Manmohan Singh

  Responsibility, Balance, Pace

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• To demonize state authoritarianism while ignoring identical albeit contract-consecrated subservient arrangements in the large-scale corporations which control the world economy is fetishism at its worst.

  Bob Black

  World, Libertarian, Corporations

  Bob Black (1986). “The Abolition of Work and Other Essays”, Loompanics Unltd

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• The world economy is not yet a community--not even an economic community...Yet the existence of the "global shopping center" is a fact that cannot be undone. The vision of an economy for all will not be forgotten again.

  Peter Drucker

  Shopping, Community, Vision

  Peter Drucker (2017). “The Age of Discontinuity: Guidelines to Our Changing Society”, p.111, Routledge

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• Production for sale in a market in which the object is to realize the maximum profit is the essential feature of a capitalist world-economy. In such a system production is constantly expanded as long as further production is profitable, and men constantly innovate new ways of producing things that will expand the profit margin.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Men, Long, World

  Immanuel Wallerstein (1979). “The Capitalist World-Economy”, p.15, Cambridge University Press

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• The world economy diffuses rather than concentrates wealth.

  Robert Gilpin

  World, Wealth, Economy

  Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.85, Princeton University Press

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• Structuralism argues that a liberal capitalist world economy tends to preserve or actually increase inequalities between developed and less developed economies.

  Robert Gilpin

  World, Arguing, Economy

  "The Political Economy of International Relations". Book by Robert Gilpin, 1987.

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• Today, you have 20 percent of the world controlling 80 percent of the Gross Domestic Product; you've got a $30 trillion (US) world economy, and $24 trillion of it is in the developed countries... These inequities can't exist. So if you are talking about systemic breakdown, I think you have to look in terms of social breakdown.

  James Wolfensohn

  Country, Thinking, Talking

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• Drawing a comparison to football, it could be said that the Spanish economy has, during this legislature, into the Champions League of the world economy, however bad that may seem to some.

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

  Football, Champions League, Drawing

  Speech in the Congress of Deputies, September 11, 2007.

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• I have no interest in celebrities. If all the superrich disappeared, the world economy would not even notice. The superrich are irrelevant to the economy.

  Peter Drucker

  World, Wealth, Economy

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• I think the producers, for the most part, don't want to see prices skyrocket because that will only create problems for them down the road and would also be a, you know, would be a very serious shock for a world economy that can't afford serious shocks right now.

  Daniel Yergin

  Thinking, World, Want

  "CNN American Morning with Paula Zahn". www.cnn.com. September 3, 2002.

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• It is really gratifying, for example, to visit India now and see that because they've had good educational institutions, and they've had a focus on it, there are more and more people in India participating in the world economy.

  Bill Gates

  Educational, People, Focus

  "Keynote Address to the Creating Digital Dividends Conference". voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu. October 18, 2000.

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• China has made important contribution to the world economy in terms of total economic output and trade, and the RMB has played a role in the world economic development. But making the RMB an international currency will be a fairly long process.

  Hu Jintao

  Long, Important, Roles

  The Wall Street Journal Interview, www.wsj.com. January 18, 2011.

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