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“One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that”

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Book:Why Some Positive Thinkers Get Powerful Results

Source: Why Some Positive Thinkers Get Powerful Results

“All stakeholders must participate in the gains and losses of any particular situation.”

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Author:Christine Lagarde

“A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.”

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Book:Economic heresies: some old-fashioned questions in economic theory

Source: Economic heresies: some old-fashioned questions in economic theory

“Listen to the women. Women say exactly what they want. Who has concrete plans - not macroeconomics but kitchen table economics. Who will change the situation for their families, and help restore the middle class. Women are also sick to death of having their bodies and their lives treated as a political football.”

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Author:Celinda Lake

“Knowledge is more a matter of learning than of the exercise of absolute judgment. Learning requires time, and in time the situation dealt with, as well as the learner, undergoes change.”

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Book:Risk, Uncertainty and Profit

Source: Risk, Uncertainty and Profit

“Economics is about creating win-win situations. But in sports, someone loses.”

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Author:Stan Kroenke

“There's a very good reason for why economics developed the way it did, and that is that in many situations, the assumption that people will exploit the opportunities available to them is very plausible, and it simplifies the analysis of how markets will behave.”

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Author:Daniel Kahneman

“There are people who think that plunder loses all its immorality as soon as it becomes legal. Personally, I cannot imagine a more alarming situation.”

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Author:Frederic Bastiat

“We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.”

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Book:Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays

Source: Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays

“People who are very aware that they have more knowledge than the average person are often very unaware that they do not have one-tenth of the knowledge of all of the average persons put together. In this situation, for the intelligentsia to impose their notions on ordinary people is essentially to impose ignorance on knowledge.”

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Author:Thomas Sowell

“To stick to the present situation would be something like a man who was observed in Times Square looking earnestly along the pavement. He was asked what he was looking for. He said "I lost my watch."”

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Author:William Vickrey

“Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks-no form of government can render us secure. To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea, if there be sufficient virtue and intelligence in the community, it will be exercised in the selection of these men. So that we do not depend on their virtue, or put confidence in our rulers, but in the people who are to choose them.”

Source: James Madison's

“Economics and a reliance on science and technology to solve our problems has led to an unsustainable situation where continued growth in consumption is required for governments and business to be considered successful. This is a form of insanity. Economics is at the heart of our destructive ways and our faith in it has blinded us”

“This is why moral uneasiness is destined to become even more acute. It is obvious that a fundamental defect, or rather a series of defects, indeed a defective machinery is at the root of contemporary economics and materialistic civilization, which does not allow the human family to break free from such radically unjust situations.”

Source: The Encyclicals of John Paul II