“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
“Now there are two or three teams who are very ethical in their outlook who have opened up the economic benefits and that is probably going to be a turning point in the sport.” TwoThreeSportsTeamEconomicBenefitsEthicalOutlookTurning Points Author:David Millar
“You know, when I made a series of overtures to the Republicans, going over to meet with both Republican caucuses, you know, putting three Republicans in my cabinet -- something that is unprecedented -- making sure that they were invited here to the White House to talk about the economic recovery plan, all those were not designed simply to get some short-term votes. They were designed to try to build up some trust over time. And I think that, as I continue to make these overtures, over time, hopefully that will be reciprocated.” ThinkingKnowsTryingMadeThreeHouseTermWhitePlansEconomicRepublicanVoteSeriesRecoveryHopefullyWhite HouseInvitedShort TermCabinetsUnprecedentedCaucusEconomic Recovery Author:Barack Obama
“For nearly three decades there has been, by and large, peace and tranquility on the India-China border. Not a single bullet has been fired for over a quarter-century. Both countries are showing great maturity and a commitment to economic cooperation.” Has BeensCountryThreeEconomicCenturyCommitmentIndiaChinaDecadesBordersMaturityCooperationQuartersBulletsTranquilityPeace And TranquilityEconomic Cooperation Author:Narendra Modi
“The genius of the corporation as a business form, and the reason for its remarkable rise over the last three centuries , was - and is - its capacity to combine the capital, and thus the economic power, of unlimited numbers of people.” PeopleReasonLastsFormThreeNumbersEconomicCenturyGeniusCapacityCorporationsRemarkableUnlimitedEconomic Power Book:The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power Source: The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power
“Economists believe there are three reasons why the Russian economy is doing so poorly. One, economic sanctions are working. Number two, low-price oil. And number three, Lindsay Lohan has quit drinking vodka.” BelieveTwoReasonThreeNumbersEconomyEconomicLowsDrinkingOilQuittingReason WhyEconomistSanctionsVodkaNumber ThreeQuit DrinkingEconomic SanctionsRussian Economy Author:David Letterman
“There are but three political-economic roads from which we can choose... We could take the first course and further exacerbate the already concentrated ownership of productive capital in the American economy. Or we could join the rest of the world by taking the second path, that of nationalization. Or we can take the third road, establishing policies to diffuse capital ownership broadly, so that many individuals, particularly workers, can participate as owners of industrial capital. The choice is ours.” WorldFirstsPoliticalChoicesThreeCoursesPoliticsIndividualEconomyPathEconomicPolicyThirdsWorkersLiberalismProductiveOwnersOwnershipAmerican Economy Author:Russell B. Long
“There are those, of course, who claim we must give up freedom in exchange for economic progress. Well, pardon me, but anyone trying to sell you that line is no better than a three-card-trick man. One thing becoming more clear every day is that freedom and progress go hand in hand. Throughout the developing world, people are rejecting socialism because they see that it doesn't empower people, it impoverishes them.” PeopleMenWorldGivingTryingWellsHandsThreeCoursesLinesClearProgressOne ThingEconomicBecomingGiving UpClaimsSellsTricksSocialismCardsDevelopingEmpoweringPardonHand In HandBecoming MoreRejectingPardon MeEconomic ProgressCard Tricks Author:Ronald Reagan
“Israel's economic and cultural progress is due to three things: the pioneering spirit that inspires the best of our immigrant and Israeli youth, who respond to the challenge of our desolute areas and the ingathering of the exiles; the feeling of Diaspora Jewry that they are partners in the enterprise of Israel's resurgence in the ancient homeland of the Jewish people; and the power of science, and technology which Israel unceasingly, and not without success, tries to enhance.” PeopleTryingFeelingsSpiritThreeChallengesTechnologyProgressEconomicYouthInspireAreasAncientIsraelDuesPartnersEnterpriseImmigrantsExileThree ThingsIsraeliHomelandScience And TechnologyDiasporaPioneeringResurgencePioneering Spirit Author:David Ben-Gurion
“Unless we do change our whole way of thought about work, I do not think we shall ever escape from the appalling squirrel-cage of economic confusion in which we have been madly turning for the last three centuries or so, the cage in which we landed ourselves by acquiescing in a social system based upon Envy and Avarice. A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste.” ThinkingWayHas BeensWholeLastsOrderThreeSocialWorkEconomicCenturyWasteEconomicsProductionsEnvyConfusionConsumptionCagesTrashAvariceSquirrelsSocial Systems Author:Dorothy L. Sayers
“The United States, which has been called the home of the persecuted and the dispossessed, has been since its founding an asylum for emotional orphans. For over three hundred years, refugees from political oppression, religious persecution, famine, poverty, and a rigid class system which limited educational and economic opportunities have been leaving their native villages and cities and coming to the United States in search of freedom and a better life.” YearsHas BeensStatesHomePoliticalThreeOpportunityReligiousUnitedCitiesClassPovertyUnited StatesEconomicEmotionalHundredLeavingEducationalOppressionNativeVillagePersecutionFoundingRefugeeBetter LifeFamineOrphanAsylumsPersecutedClass SystemReligious PersecutionPolitical Oppression Author:Eileen Simpson
“Economists suffer from a deep psychological disorder that I call 'physics envy'. We wish that 99 percent of economic behavior could be captured by three simple laws of nature. In fact, economists have 99 laws that capture 3 percent of behavior. Economics is a uniquely human endeavor.” HumansFactsLawSufferingThreeWishSimpleEconomicBehaviorPercentEconomicsInvestingEnvyPhysicsPsychologicalEndeavorCaptureDisorderEconomistLaws Of NatureCapturedPsychological Disorders Author:Andrew Lo
“My personal belief is that because technology and economic logic has gotten so sophisticated, cruelties can be perpetrated now that would have been unimaginable two or three hundred years ago.” YearsHas BeensTwoThreeBeliefTechnologyEconomicHundredYears AgoLogicCrueltySophisticatedUnimaginablePersonal Beliefs Author:David Foster Wallace
“There is a sort of myth of History that philosophers have.... History for philosophers is some sort of great, vast continuity in which the freedom of individuals and economic or social determinations come and get entangled. When someone lays a finger on one of those great themes--continuity, the effective exercise of human liberty, how individual liberty is articulated with social determinations--when someone touches one of these three myths, these good people start crying out that History is being raped or murdered.” PeopleHumansThreeIndividualSocialLibertyHistoryEconomicCryExerciseDeterminationLaysFingersPhilosopherMythThemeGood PeopleContinuityIndividual Liberty Author:Michel Foucault
“Three factors--the belief that child care is female work, the failure of ex-husbands to support their children, and higher male wages at work--have taken the economic rug from under that half of married women who divorce.” ChildrenCareThreeBeliefHalfSupportTakenEconomicHigherHusbandMarriedFemaleMalesDivorceFactorsWagesExesMarried WomenChild CareEx Husband Author:Arlie Russell Hochschild
“For three decades and longer we have been developing the ideas, science, and technological wherewithal to build a sustainable society. The public knows of these things only in fragments, but not as a coherent and practical agenda indeed the only practical course available. That is our fault and we should start now to put a positive agenda before the public that includes the human and economic advantages of better technology, integrated planning, coherent purposes, and foresight.” KnowsShouldHumansHas BeensIdeasPurposeThreeCoursesTechnologyEconomicAdvantageFaultsEnvironmentalAvailableDecadesPlanningPracticalsDevelopingAgendasSustainabilityTechnologicalFragmentsIntegratedForesight Author:David W. Orr
“It is very important for our long-term economic future that the relationship with Japan, Korea and China, who are our three biggest trading partners, be ever stronger.” LongImportantThreeTermEconomicStrongerChinaPartnersLong TermJapanTradingKoreaTrading Partners Author:Tony Abbott
“The start of the New Year is a perfect time to start a stop doing list and to make this the cornerstone of your New Year resolutions, be it for your company, your family or yourself. It also is a perfect time to clarify your three circles, mirroring at a personal level the three questions... 1) What are you deeply passionate about? 2) What are you are genetically encoded for - what activities do you feel just "made to do"? 3) What makes economic sense - what can you make a living at?” FeelsYearsMadeThreePerfectLevelsBusinessCompanyEconomicActivityPassionateListsCirclesOur FamilyResolutionNew YearCornerstonesNew Years ResolutionMirroringFeels Just Author:James C. Collins
“...we're going to be in an economic slowdown for a couple of years. So to take three months, four months, six months to spend this money the right way-we're not going to get a chance to spend a trillion dollars again! Ever. So let's do it the right way.” WayYearsThreeChanceFourEconomicMonthsCoupleSixDollarsRight WaySix MonthsThree Months Author:Van Jones
“Polak, a psychiatrist, has applied a behavioral and anthropological approach to alleviating poverty, developed by studying people in their natural surroundings. He argues that there are three mythic solutions to poverty eradication: donations, national economic growth, and big businesses. Instead, he advocates helping the poor earn money through their own efforts of developing low-cost tools that are effective and profitable.” PeopleHelpingBigsThreeGrowthNaturalPoorEffortPovertyStudyEconomicCostApproachSolutionsLowsToolsArguingDevelopingSurroundingsProfitableEconomic GrowthPsychiatristBig BusinessDonationSolutions To Poverty Author:Amy Lockwood
“First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.” FirstsBigsDesireTimeThreeEconomicEconomicsStomachMacsInsatiableEconomy And EconomicsBig Mac Author:Douglas Horton
“Our country today is at a cross-point of several crises that were triggered by three groups of causes: the effects of the 2008 world crisis, the external political and economic pressure, and the internal problems and constraints that have built up in our economy” WorldCountryProblemTodayPoliticalThreeCausesEconomyGroupsEconomicEffectsBuiltCrossesPressureCrisisOur CountryInternalsConstraints Author:Dmitry Medvedev
“In these tough economic times, everybody has to cut back. I am down to three tabs of ecstasy a day.” ThreeCuttingEconomicToughEcstasyTough Economic Times Author:Chelsea Handler
“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 more subtle thing is more speculative. The world is well past its long-term carrying capacity for human beings living a European, much less an American, lifestyle predicated on planned obsolescence. International economic growth is largely a matter of accelerated movement of materials from mines and forests to the dump. Instead of saving and buying decent furniture we can pass on to our children, we charge our credit cards for shaped heaps of sawdust and glue that fall apart in less than three or four years.” WorldYearsHumansWellsChildrenLongMatterPastFallThreeGrowthTermHuman BeingsFourEconomicMovementMinesMaterialsCapacityOur ChildrenInternationalCreditLifestyleForestsCardsSavingLong TermDecentBuyingSubtleFour YearsFalling ApartFurnitureEconomic GrowthCredit CardDumpGlueObsolescenceSawdustPlanned Obsolescence Author:Denis Hayes
“We hope that more assistance will be available to the nations of the region, to include Egypt, on the three pillars that I discussed today: civic society development, education and economic development.” TodayThreeNationsEconomicDevelopmentAvailableRegionsEgyptAssistanceCivicsPillarsEconomic Development Author:Colin Powell
“When you look at police violence, over the last three or four years, whether you call it a social, economic or racial thing, these are the guys that we're supposed to trust. These are the guys who are given these guns and weapons to protect us. Not to use them upon us, but to protect us, and they can't even get it right. So, if they can't get it right, how can you fault a society for fearing them, and fearing them in a way that makes them want to take up arms and fight back.” IfsWayWantYearsLooksUseLastsGuyFightingThreeGivenSocialFourViolenceEconomicArmsProtectWeaponsGunPoliceFaultsFour YearsPolice Violence Author:Edwin Hodge
“So many times, white - non-college-education - educated white males have voted Republican. They voted against their own economic interests because of guns, because of gays, and because of God, the three G's, God being the woman's right to choose.” ThreeInterestWhiteEconomicCollegeRepublicanGayGunMalesEducatedCollege Education Author:Judy Woodruff