Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pankaj Mishra

Minorities within nation-states frayed by global capitalism are naturally more resentful of hollowed-out but still heavily centralised systems of political and economic domination.

This project will have a tremendous positive impact on agriculture, grain prices and economic development in our area.

This project has unfolded just as we hoped it would. The traditional economic impacts have been substantial - including things such as investment and employment numbers.

This program will put people to work and help maintain the state's economic viability.

Lowering inflation to 3-4% annually should be a priority, a major instrument of economic policy, and we have the means to lower inflation to this level.

Losing one day in July is an economic disaster.

Leading economic indicators in general have indicated a slowing for some time.

Many states are having an unexpected surplus of revenue, and that is because of economic growth. It's mainly because their estimates on economic growth were very low.

sensible economic policies that put American families first.

We're looking at some positive expansion, solid growth in jobs and in general economic growth, and that's something we see continuing.

Maine's economic performance has been spotty for a long time.

Kate Warne

The overall tenor of the market has been very positive because the economic numbers are relaxing fears of a rate hike (by the U.S. Federal Reserve).

The overall intention is to try to have mares reside longer in the state. That's where the greatest economic development is derived.

Tim Jackson

The most staggering linguistic turnabout for me is the one that equates green economy with 'sustained economic growth.'

Brunello Cucinelli

To sum it all up, the objective of my life has been to give work a moral and economic dignity.

Vivek Wadhwa

Outsourcing was the bogeyman of the '90s. Protectionists portrayed it as an evil that would take American jobs away. Yes, some jobs did go offshore as people feared, but it made the global economic pie grow bigger.

Iris Apfel

The fashion industry has done itself in by neglecting the 60- to 80-year-old market. They have the time and the economic resources. They want to go shopping.

Steven Pinker

There is a correlation between economic inequality and personal violence. The explanation for the correlation isn't completely clear; there are a number of possibilities.

Vik Muniz

Drawing is not only a way to come up with pictures: drawing is a way to educate your eye to understand visual information, organizing it into a more hierarchical way, a more economical way. When you see something, if you draw often and frequently, you examine a room very differently.

Bill Owens

Americans no longer look to government for economic security; rather, they look to their portfolios.

Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral.

Bobby Seale

Revolution is about the need to re-evolve political, economic and social justice and power back into the hands of the people, preferably through legislation and policies that make human sense. That's what revolution is about. Revolution is not about shootouts.

Ernest Istook

Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights; government should never be permitted to take those away.

Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

Historically, philanthropy has been something that you do when you turn 65, and you are retired, and you have spent your life accumulating your financial resources, and now you finally have time to do it. But because of the Internet revolution, that in turn revolutionized economic growth and wealth generation.

Nikola Tesla

The harness of waterfalls is the most economical method known for drawing energy from the sun.

Albert Einstein

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of others.

You make more money gouging -- that's the problem. For strictly economic reasons, even with guidance and speeches by regulators, they're still not going to do it.

Oliver E. Williamson

The organization of the government itself is something which we ought to examine in a more self-conscious way - the Federal Reserve and the Treasury and the Securities and Exchange Commission. The mission that each of them has is mainly economic but should be informed by good organizational practices.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Our educational system should make the Filipino fit not just for whatever jobs happen to be on offer today, but also for whatever economic challenge life will throw in their way.

George Papandreou

The fact that we're going through a crisis is an opportunity for Europe to be more coordinated and more integrated. We're actually talking about a European Monetary Fund or euro bonds, about guarantees for countries, about economic governance in the European Union. That shows the strength of Europe.

The 1930s had been a time of tremendous economic distress. And the unemployment rate was enormously high by any historic standard.

Tom Price

The American people need to know that there are folks here fighting as hard as they can for individual liberty, economic freedom, appropriate national security and the fundamental moral values that have made our nation the greatest nation in the history of mankind.

We were all part of economic development back then.