“Three hundred men, who all know each other direct the economic destinies of the Continent and they look for successors among their friends and relations. This is not the place to examine the strange causes of this strange state of affairs which throws a ray of light on the obscurity of our social future.” KnowsMenLooksStatesLightThreeSocialCausesDestinyEconomicStrangeHundredDirectRelationAffairJewRaysContinentsObscuritySuccessorsRays Of Light Author:Walther Rathenau
“Haitian diplomacy will be oriented toward the influx of foreign capital, direct investments that create jobs and stimulate economic growth.” JobsGrowthEconomicDirectInvestmentDiplomacyEconomic GrowthHaitian Author:Laurent Lamothe
“This high proportion of history's decisive campaigns, the significance of which is enhanced by the comparative rarity of the direct approach, enforces the conclusion that the indirect is by far the most hopeful and economic form of strategy.” FormEconomicMilitaryApproachDirectStrategyCampaignsConclusionProportionHopefulSignificanceIndirectRarityDirect Approach Author:B. H. Liddell Hart
“Air forces offered the possibility of striking a the enemy's economic and moral centres without having first to achieve 'the destruction of the enemy's main forces on the battlefield'. Air-power might attain a direct end by indirect means - hopping over opposition instead of overthrowing it.” FirstsMeanEndsMightForceMoralEnemyAirEconomicAchieveMilitaryPossibilityDirectDestructionOppositionCentreBattlefieldsAir ForceIndirectAir PowerHopping Author:B. H. Liddell Hart
“State intervention in economic production arises only when private initiative is lacking or insufficient, or when the political interests of the State are involved. This intervention may take the form of control, assistance or direct management.” MayStatesFormPoliticalInterestEconomicInvolvedEconomicsDirectManagementProductionsAriseSocialismFascismInitiativeLackingAssistanceInterventionInsufficient Author:Benito Mussolini
“Like so many empires before it, the Soviet Union eventually imploded and fragmented, falling victim not so much to a direct military defeat as to disintegration accelerated by economic and social strains.” FallSocialEconomicMilitaryDirectVictimUnionsDefeatEmpiresSovietSoviet UnionStrainFragmentedDisintegration Book:The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives Source: The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives
“The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.” RealitySocialEconomicMovementDirectOrganizationTradeUnionsWorkersOrganizedLabor UnionEconomic PowerTrade UnionsUnion Solidarity Author:Samuel Gompers
“Three hundred men, all of whom know one another, direct the economic destiny of Europe and choose their successors from among themselves.” KnowsMenThreeDestinyEconomicHundredEuropeDirectNew World OrderWorld OrderSuccessors Author:Walther Rathenau
“The idea wasn't to make a direct political statement since the current economic collapse hadn't begun when we started on the book. The parallels I'm most interested in are the ways that human nature never changes, no matter how far back in time you look.” WayHumansLooksBookIdeasMatterPoliticalEconomicHuman NatureDirectCurrentsStatementsCollapseParallelsNever ChangeBack In TimeEconomic Collapse Author:James Vance