Global Economy Quotes

• A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today's global economy.

  Rod Blagojevich

  Successful, Skills, Focus

  "Gov. Blagojevich Announces Major Opportunity Returns Investment to Bring Leading Manufacturer and 480 Jobs to Macomb". Illinois Government Network, February 22, 2005.

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• Henry Ford was right. A prosperous economy requires that workers be able to buy the products that they produce. This is as true in a global economy as a national one.

  John J. Sweeney

  Fog, Able, Economy

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• Today, local economies are being destroyed by the 'pluralistic,' displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in a locality. The global economy is built on the principle that one place can be exploited, even destroyed, for the sake of another place.

  Wendell Berry

  Principles, Today, Sake

  New Perspectives Quarterly, www.poetryfoundation.org. 1992.

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• Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy.

  Sam Harris

  Brain, Influence, Economy

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• We are moving toward a global economy. One way of approaching that is to pull the covers over your head. Another is to say: It may be more complicated - but that's the world I am going to live in, I might as well be good at it.

  Philip M. Condit

  Moving, Over You, World

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• Our view is that economic isolationism is the wrong way to go. Vibrant, successful growing economies that advance the interests of their citizens engage the global economy. And, we're committed to engaging the global economy.

  John W. Snow

  Successful, Views, Citizens

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• Clearly, the Global Economy isn't working for workers in China and Indonesia and Burma any more than it is for workers here in the United States.

  John Sweeney

  Nike, United States, Economy

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• In the 'Nike Economy,' there are no standards, no borders and no rules. Clearly, the global economy isn't working for workers in China and Indonesia and Burma any more than it is for workers here in the United States.

  John J. Sweeney

  Nike, United States, Borders

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• To ensure continuing prosperity in the global economy, nothing is more important than the development and application of knowledge and skills.

  Martin Rees

  Skills, Important, Development

  "The stimulus of science" by Martin Rees, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2009.

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• There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Power, Hunger And Poverty, Hunger Poverty

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• By preventing pneumonia and other diseases, we are giving men, women and children the chance to live healthy productive lives and participate in the global economy. In doing so, we are not only enhancing their futures - we are enhancing our own.

  Mandy Moore

  Children, Men, Pneumonia

  "Remembering the Forgotten Killer" by Mandy Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2011.

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• The question is what will Mitt Romney do as president if his policy is simply to be hands off and let the government be made so small it can be drowned in a bathtub. In the 21st century global economy, no state alone has the ability to compete against China.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Government, Hands, President

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• I don't want the United States to be in a global economy where our economic future is bound to that of Zimbabwe. We can't necessarily trust the decisions that are being made financially in other countries.

  Michele Bachmann

  Country, Zimbabwe, Decision

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• All the politics of the post-war period was about the clash between the Soviet Union and America, and virtually all issues ended up being subordinated to that. Now, the question is, what is the most a socialist can achieve in a global economy?

  Ken Livingstone

  War, America, Issues

  "I would have loved to be PM" by John Harris, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2008.

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• Our system of private health insurance that fails to provide coverage to so many of our citizens also contributes to the double-digit health care inflation that is making America less competitive in the global economy.

  John Conyers

  America, Citizens, Care

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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 global economy is becoming a place where women are more successful than men, and these economic changes are starting to rapidly affect our culture - what our romantic comedies look like, what our marriages look like, what our dating lives look like, and our new set of superheroes.

  Hanna Rosin

  Motivation, Inspiration, Successful

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• In today's global economy, however, it is important to raise the bar of excellence even higher. Today's students must be prepared to compete effectively on an international level.

  Kenny Marchant

  Competition, Excellence, Important

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• The economic owning class is always the political ruling class.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Class, Political, Economic

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• The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population.

  Bill Bryson

  Two, Population, World

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• The accepted ideas of any period are singularly those that serve the dominant economic interest...What economists believe and teach, whether in the United States or in the Soviet Union, is rarely hostile to the institutions - the private business enterprise, the Communist Party - that reflect the dominant economic power. Not to notice this takes effort, although many succeed.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Party, Believe, Ideas

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• There is no way to turn off this global economy, nor should one try. Every previous expansion of global capitalism has led to greater prosperity across the world.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Trying, Expansion, World

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• In the new conditions created by the global economy, the information revolution and the growth of smart technologies, it is more necessary than ever for all companies to be guided by their rich spiritual inheritance, as spiritual enterprises.

  Ted Malloch

  Spiritual, Smart, Technology

  "Doing Virtuous Business: The Remarkable Success of Spiritual Enterprise". Book by Ted Malloch, 2011.

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• We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.

  Barack Obama

  America, Innovation, Today

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union, delivered 28 January 2014

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• Viewed as a means to the end of political freedom, economic arrangements are important because of their effect on the concentration or dispersion of power. The kind of economic organization that provides economic freedom directly, namely, competitive capitalism, also promotes political freedom because it separates economic power from political power and in this way enables the one to offset the other

  Milton Friedman

  Mean, Organization, Political

  Milton Friedman (2009). “Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition”, p.9, University of Chicago Press

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