Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Akerlof

Economic theorists, like French chefs in regard to food, have developed stylized models whose ingredients are limited by some unwritten rules. Just as traditional French cooking does not use seaweed or raw fish, so neoclassical models do not make assumptions derived from psychology, anthropology, or sociology. I disagree with any rules that limit the nature of the ingredients in economic models.

Frances O'Grady

The TUC's new slogan 'a future that works' sets a profound challenge. Austerity and rapid deficit reduction is failing in its own terms, but even at its best it is short-sighted, muddle-through politics with no vision of a new economic model.

Hugo Chavez

We must reduce all the emissions that are destroying the planet. However, that requires a change in lifestyle, a change in the economic model: We must go from capitalism to socialism.

Joseph Stiglitz

Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile the models with every day observation.

Lars Peter Hansen

I work on the boundary between economics and statistics in this field called econometrics. Part of my interest is understanding how you use statistics in productive ways to analyze dynamic economic models.

Nicholas Negroponte

I grew up with free television. Now, it wasn't free, there was these commercials, and so the economic model was driven through commercials and through advertising.

Mikhail Gorbachev

I remember Secretary of State [George] Shultz one day saying that America is an economic model for the world. I replied to him that America represents 5 percent of the world's population and consumes 30 percent of the world's energy. What if everyone in the world lives like Americans? Where do we get the energy for this standard of living?

Naomi Klein

So the need for another economic model is urgent, and if the climate justice movement can show that responding to climate change is the best chance for a more just economic system...

B. Carroll Reece

We approach closer and closer to socialism.

Adolf Hitler

Basically National Socialism and Marxism are the same.

Daniel De Leon

Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.

Aneurin Bevan

There can be no immaculate conception of socialism.

E. O. Wilson

Karl Marx was right, socialism works, it is just that he had the wrong species

Benjamin Tucker

Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism

Ludwig von Mises

Socialism is the renunciation of rational economy.

Ludwig von Mises

The system that would stand midway between capitalism and socialism.

George Bernard Shaw

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

Demi Lovato

Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses, not lifestyle choices.

Chris Evans

I've managed to do movies and still keep a lifestyle where I can go to ballgames, go to a grocery store like everybody else.

Craig Kilborn

I lived in a studio apartment until my mid-30s. I don't have an extravagant lifestyle.

Dominic Cooper

In whatever work environment, whether we admit it or not, there is always a little part of us that has been or will be tempted by a lifestyle for the wrong reasons.

Cynthia Nixon

Talk with your doctor, make healthy lifestyle choices and most importantly, know your body - as that can make all the difference in the world.

Anne Hathaway

I love the short-haired lifestyle.

John Paxson

He would have an above-average lifestyle that would put him in a position that most other people aren't in,

Jack Hannah

Our lifestyle has always been cowboy. We were raised that way as a way of life.

Steve Case

When I saw it, I really thought it could be more of a lifestyle brand, much like Nike.