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“Mobile phone technology can help to bring financial services to the 80 percent of African women who do not have a bank account and bolster the growth of the world's poorest continent. It's not just about empowering women, it's about economic growth. Unless we can make access to finance easier for women in their businesses, we will be missing out on a significant portion of growth within our economies”

Author:Susan Rice

“In practice, socialism didnt work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.”

Humans Practice Economy Psychology Ignorance Socialism Gross Premises

Book:The Black Book of the American Left: The Collected Conservative Writings of David Horowitz

Source: The Black Book of the American Left: The Collected Conservative Writings of David Horowitz

“How did the economy produce all these amazing things that we have around us - computers and cell phones and so on? There were a bunch of ideas, and the good ones grew and prospered. And the bad ones were pretty ruthlessly weeded out.”

Ideas Economy Produce Grew Computer Phones Bunch Cells Cell Phone Amazing Things

Author:Tim Harford

“Synthetic Worlds is a surprisingly profound book about the social, political, and economic issues arising from the emergence of vast multiplayer games on the Internet. What Castronova has realized is that these games, where players contribute considerable labor in exchange for things they value, are not merely like real economies, they are real economies, displaying inflation, fraud, Chinese sweatshops, and some surprising in-game innovations.”

“We have benefited greatly from the globalization of the economy in the last 30 years.”

Years Lasts Economy Globalization

Author:Phil Gramm

“There is a wise old saying 'Eat it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without'. Thrift is a practice of not wasting anything. Some people are able to get by because of the absence of expense. They have their shoes resoled, they patch, they mend, they sew, and they save money. They avoid installment buying, and make purchases only after saving enough to pay cash, thus avoiding interest charges. Frugality means to practice careful economy.”

People Mean Enough Able Interest Pay Practice Economy Wise Shoes Careful Absence Saving Buying Expenses Cash Avoiding Patches Saving Money Thrift Frugality Old Saying

Author:James E. Faust

“If we expect our children to thrive at our colleges and universities, and succeed in our economy once they graduate - first we must make quality, affordable early childhood education accessible to all.”

Ifs Firsts Children Quality Economy Childhood College Succeed Our Children University Thrive Graduates Affordable Early Childhood Colleges And Universities Early Childhood Education

Author:Kirsten Gillibrand

“I want to talk about jobs, the economy, foreclosures. I want to talk about energy prices.”

Want Jobs Energy Economy Foreclosure

Author:Dean Heller

“Progressive economic policies lead to a sustainable economy.”

Economy Economic Policy Progressive Economic Policy

Author:Keith Ellison

“In a time of serious budget deficits, immense war costs and a sluggish economy, we cannot afford to grant such outlandish subsidies to some of our Nations largest corporations.”

War Nations Economy Serious Cost Budgets Corporations Grants Immense Deficit Subsidies Sluggish Outlandish Budget Deficit

Author:Ron Kind

“The annual cost of cybercrime to the global economy is more than $4 billion”

Economy Cost Billions Annuals Global Economy Cybercrime

Author:Mark Rutte

“Of all the public services, education is the one I'm most interested in. You get a more dynamic economy, you deal with most social problems, and it's morally right.”

Problem Social Deals Economy Public Service Social Problems

Author:George Osborne

“The positive news is that the British economy is continuing to grow and is creating jobs. And it is positive news too that at a time of real international instability we are a safe haven in the storm.”

Real Jobs Grows Economy Havens Safe Creating News International British Storm Continuing Instability Safe Haven Creating Jobs British Economy Continuing To Grow

Author:George Osborne

“The savings rate in Italy is high, but the markets do not trust Italy even though it's the third largest economy in the European Union and the eighth in the world.”

World Economy Thirds Unions Rate Saving Savings European Union

Author:Anibal Cavaco Silva

“Most intellectuals outside the field of economics show remarkably little interest in learning even the basic fundamentals of economics. Yet they do not hesitate to make sweeping pronouncements about the economy in general, businesses in particular, and the many issues revolving around what is called 'income distribution'.”

Littles Shows Interest Economy Issues Fields Particular Economics Fundamentals Income Distribution Sweeping Revolving Income Distribution

Author:Thomas Sowell

“During the 1930s, some of the leading intellectuals in America condemned our economic system and pointed to the centrally planned Soviet economy as a model -- all this at a time when literally millions of people were starving to death in the Soviet Union, from a famine in a country with some of the richest farmland in Europe and historically a large exporter of food.”

People Country America Millions Economy Economic Models Europe Unions Soviet Soviet Union Starving Famine 1930s Economic Systems Farmland

Book:Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)

Source: Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)

“The economic disasters of socialism and communism come from assuming a blanket superiority of those who want to run a whole economy.”

Want Whole Running Economy Economic Assuming Disaster Socialism Communism Superiority Blanket

Author:Thomas Sowell

“The president has very little effect on the economy. If you want to put blame or credit, the main person who influences the business cycle is the head of the Federal Reserve Bank.”

Ifs Want Littles Persons President Economy Influence Effects Blame Credit Cycles Reserves Federal Reserve

Author:Robert Fogel

“Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum. No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.”

Way Humans Stuff Economy Successful Human Nature Function Corruption Characteristics Fraud Minimum Embezzlement

Author:Alan Greenspan

“The Fed is the biggest enemy of this economy. In fact, Ben Bernanke, as far as I'm concerned, he's public enemy No. 1. We're never going to have a recovery while this guy's in charge.”

Facts Guy Enemy Economy Concerned Recovery Feds This Guy Public Enemies

Author:Peter Schiff

“We've clearly seen that Tea Party Republicans are willing to take our economy hostage just to score political points, but I'm not willing to do that.”

Political Party Economy Willing Republican Tea Score Tea Party Hostage

Author:Martin Heinrich

“The Italian economy has been held back for decades.”

Has Beens Economy Decades Italian

Author:Mario Monti

“The key thing was to learn the value of economy with words and to never insult the viewer by telling them what they can already see.”

Values Economy Keys Insult Viewers Cricket Key Things

Author:Richie Benaud

“We (British) have reached the state where the private sector is that part of the economy the government controls and the public sector is that part that nobody controls.”

States Government Economy British Private Sector Public Sector

Author:James Goldsmith

“We don't need more politicians insisting we have deficits because you're not taxed enough. Those deficits ballooned from an economy that didn't grow enough and from 50 years of government spending too much.”

Needs Years Enough Government Grows Economy Too Much Politician Spending Deficit American Politics Insisting Government Spending

Book:Ronald Reagan

Source: Ronald Reagan

“Revenues should be increased not by increasing the tax rates on the individual but by building a bigger economy for everybody.”

Should Individual Economy Building Taxes Bigger Rate Revenue American Politics

Author:Ronald Reagan

“The low carbon economy is at the leading edge of a structural shift now taking place globally...”

Economy Lows Edges Carbon

Author:William Hague

“The total economy of Latin America is bigger than China.”

America Economy Bigger China Latin Latin America

Author:William Hague

“I can see television much more easily than I can see features, because the economy and politics of making big, big features seems to me to be narrowing even from what it was.”

I Can Bigs Seems Economy Television Features

Author:William Gibson

“Openness fundamentally affects a lot of the core institutions in society - the media, the economy, how people relate to the government and just their leadership.”

People Government Economy Media Institutions Core Relate Openness

Author:Mark Zuckerberg

“The basic issue of an American society which is fair, which is providing opportunity for all, is nowadays being replaced by the correct perception that we're living in a rigged economy - where it doesn't matter how hard you worked, the result will be all the income goes to the people at the very top. It's leading to a lot of frustration and anger, and people want some fundamental changes to the way we do economics and growth.”

People Way Want Matter Hard Opportunity Growth Results Economy Issues Perception Fairs Economics Fundamentals Income Frustration Providing Replaced American Society Rigged

Author:Bernie Sanders

“I don't look down on tourism. I live in Hawaii where we have 7 million visitors a year. If they weren't there, there would be no economy. So I understand why a tourist economy is necessary.”

Ifs Years Looks Would Be Millions Economy Hawaii Tourists Tourism Visitors

Author:Paul Theroux

“When Hillary Clinton talks about adding more restrictions and complexity to our financial system, as she did in her economic policy speech, it shows how clueless she is about how the economy actually works.”

Shows Economy Economic Policy Speech Clinton Financial Complexity Restriction Economic Policy Clueless Financial System

Author:Carly Fiorina

“I would say nobody is perfect. I don't know all the answers. I have don't want to run people's lives and run the world and run the economy. So, my qualifications are a little bit different.”

People Knows World Want Littles Different Running Bits Answers Perfect Economy Little Bit Qualifications

Author:Ron Paul

“I thought not being part of the [Britain] union was a bad idea. We are better together. It was dangerous for business as there were no [concrete] plans around the currency or the economy.”

Ideas Together Economy Plans Dangerous Unions Britain Concrete Currency Bad Ideas Better Together

Author:Michelle Mone

“Whether or not [the company] maximizes resources, that's the job of the leader. How do I get greater results using less resources? That requires an enormous psychology when the economy is changing, the technology is changing, and the competition is worldwide.”

Jobs Results Company Leader Technology Economy Psychology Greater Resources Competition Enormous

Author:Tony Robbins

“China has seen a great deal of economic progress. It's certainly rather of a miracle. The growing role of the market in the economy will force China to open up its political system over time and to move toward a more democratic society. So taken as a whole, the one real failure in this whole business has been Russia.”

Has Beens Real Whole Moving Political Force Deals Roles Economy Taken Growing Progress Economic Miracle Democratic China Russia Political Systems Democratic Society Economic Progress

Author:Milton Friedman

“Student loan debt is crushing young people. And so they're not doing the things we would expect them to do. They're not moving out of their parents' homes in as big a numbers, they're not saving up money for down payments, they're not buying homes or cars or starting small businesses or doing any of the things that help move this economy forward.”

“There is a religious principle: Love thy neighbour as thyself. But it's also an economic asset. If you've got a neighbour, you've got help, and this implies another limit. If you want to have neighbours, you can't have a limitless growth economy. You have to prefer to have a neighbour rather than to own your neighbour farm.”

Ifs Want Helping Growth Religious Principles Economy Economic Limits Assets Farms Limitless Thyself Neighbour

Author:Wendell Berry

“People talk about "job creation," as if that had ever been the aim the industrial economy. The aim was to replace people with machines.”

People Ifs Jobs Economy Creation Machines Aim Job Creation

Author:Wendell Berry

“When you take away the subsistence economy, then your farm population is seriously exposed to the vagaries of the larger economy. As it used to be, the subsistence economy carried people through the hard times, and what you might call the housewife's economy of cream and eggs often held these farms and their families together.”

People Hard Might Together Used Economy Population Used To Be Hard Times Eggs Farms Exposed Cream Housewife Subsistence Family Together

Author:Wendell Berry

“There are lots of bad things that can happen to a food economy that's both extensive and centralized. There's no substitute for petroleum. To have a growth economy based on a declining fuel supply is bound to be stressful.”

Happens Growth Economy Bounds Fuel Bad Things Substitutes Stressful Petroleum

Book:Conversations with Wendell Berry

Source: Conversations with Wendell Berry

“I'm an adult and I know what power means in the modern world. In the modern world, power is mainly defined by such factors as the economy, defence and cultural influence. I believe that in terms of defence, Russia is without any doubt one of the leaders because we are a nuclear power and our nuclear weapons are perhaps the best in the world.”

Knows World Believe Mean I Believe Term Leader Economy Doubt Influence Modern Weapons Adults Nuclear Russia Factors Defined Nuclear Weapons Modern World Defence Nuclear Power World Power

Author:Vladimir Putin

“When Bill Clinton assembled the top minds of the nation to discuss the economy in 1992, no one mentioned the Internet.”

Mind Nations Economy Internet Bills Clinton

Author:David Leonhardt

“Revolutions are spiritual acts. They appear first in people, then in politics and the economy. New people form new structures. The transformation we want is first of all spiritual; that will necessarily change the way things are.”

People Way Want Firsts Spiritual Form Economy Revolution Transformation Structure

Author:Joseph Goebbels

“To keep farmers on the farm we must maintain a strong farm safety net, but we will also have to build a thriving companion economy to compliment production agriculture in rural America.”

America Strong Economy Safety Productions Companion Compliment Farms Farmers Agriculture Safety Net Rural America

Author:Tom Vilsack

“I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism. The spirit is opposed, not only to the splendor, but even to the very forms of monarchy, and many of its precepts have for their objects republican liberty and equality as well as simplicity, integrity, and economy in government. It is only necessary for republicanism to ally itself to the Christian religion to overturn all the corrupted political and religious institutions of the world.”

“The world is organised by the war economy and the war culture.”

World War Culture Economy Organised

Author:Eduardo Galeano

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