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“People think that their vote counts. They go to college, and everything gets mixed up. People stop caring, ... They raise the gas prices, but what the Everyman makes and welfare never seem to keep up. The HMO system is so ridiculous. I'm slightly educated. No one wants to hear what Hilary Duff thinks of the economy.”

People Thinking Want Seems Economy College Vote Raises Caring Ridiculous Educated Welfare Gas Gas Prices Everyman Stop Caring

Author:Shia LaBeouf

“Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.”

People Wanted Economy Century Needed Advertising Nineteenth Century

Book:The affluent society

Source: The affluent society

“In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.”

States United Power United States Economy Expectations Power Corrupts

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.”

States Government Would Be Goal Economy Foolish Alternatives Aesthetic Custodians

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.”

Power Economy Underwear Discarded

Book:the new industrial state

Source: the new industrial state

“The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.”

Should Long Has Beens Cities Economy New York Should Have London Should Have Been City Life Tokyo Metropolis Cities At Night City Of London

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?”

Fiction Economy Why Not Biographies Escapists

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.”

Made Wealth Cases Economy Advantage Prosperity Contrary Finance Persuasive

Book:The affluent society

Source: The affluent society

“Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover either for grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much-cherished aspect of academic freedom.”

People Freedom Economy Aspect Criticism Extremes Graves Latter Academic Laziness Inadequacy Literary Criticism Cerebral Terminal Specialization Academic Freedom

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation.”

Has Beens Economy Particular Treats Scholar Indignation Marxist

Book:The Essential Galbraith

Source: The Essential Galbraith

“Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised.”

Mind Audience Economy Subjects Blessing Economics Ears Response Ill Boredom Topics Cliche

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.”

Stills States Economy Economic Labor Our Time Enterprise Free Enterprise Dialectics

Book:Economics in Perspective: A Critical History

Source: Economics in Perspective: A Critical History

“When there is some fear about accounting and growth and the economy, food stocks are a decent place to be, ... This company has been through a bit of a restructuring the last couple of years. Management is doing a great job. The company is improving and people are buying chocolate. So, what a great week to buy it.”

People Years Has Beens Jobs Lasts Bits Growth Company Economy Week Couple Management Decent Buying Chocolate Improving Accounting Great Job Restructuring

Author:Liz Miller

“I cite a good example, say, of agriculture, .. In agriculture we need to move with speed to bring to full utilization the land that is now in our possession. We need to curb aspects of corruption that are endemic in the economy. We need to be transparent in everything that we do. We need to be consistent in implementing the policies we would have agreed. And not implement policies one day and reverse them the other day.”

Needs Moving Economy Land Policy Example One Day Aspect Possession Corruption Speed Consistent Reverse Agriculture Transparent Good Examples Curb Citing Implementing Utilization

Author:Gideon Gono

“Whatever reforms are carried out in the economy, without deep going changes in men?s mentality ? in their opinion about femininity ? women?s equality may not be possible.”

Men May Women Opinion Economy Reform Mentality Femininity

Author:Velupillai Prabhakaran

“The economy has settled into a sustainable, self-reinforcing growth path, .. All major categories of the economy have contributed to economic growth. Now that businesses have begun to add to payrolls, the current expansion is self-reinforcing. Only external shocks, such as terrorist attacks or a surge in oil prices, could derail the recovery.”

Self Growth Economy Path Economic Majors Add Currents Oil Terrorist Recovery Shock Categories Expansion Economic Growth Terrorist Attacks Payroll Oil Price

Author:Sung Won Sohn

“The statists want to control the economy.”

Author:Grover Norquist

“To the extent that hiring in high-wage, developed economies continues to lag, the sustainability of any impetus to private consumption can be drawn into serious question.”

Economy Serious Sustainability Consumption Wages Hiring Impetus Lag

Author:Stephen S. Roach

“Obviously, the technology community in Massachusetts competes in a global economy, and our efforts to create a more competitive environment recognizes that competitiveness at a local level. We'd expect employers in other states to use this site as they consider where in Massachusetts to locate or expand their presence.”

States Use Community Levels Effort Technology Economy Environment Competition Locals Site Employers Global Economy Massachusetts Competitiveness

Author:Christopher Anderson

“The Unites States is the largest developed country. Canada enjoys a flourishing economy and advanced technology. Mexico is an important developing country. China attaches great importance to the friendly cooperation with the three countries,.”

Important Country States Three Enjoy Technology Economy Importance China Developing Canada Friendly Cooperation Mexico Flourishing Developing Countries Developed Country Advanced Technology

Author:Li Zhaoxing

“We have the most flexible and adaptive economy. Making sure we sustain the ability of the American economy to perform well is really the priority of economic policy.”

Wells Ability Economy Economic Policy Priorities Flexible Economic Policy American Economy Adaptive

Author:John W. Snow

“We're focused on doing the things that make the economy perform well, and as you do that, reduce deficits, for one, very important; secondly, keep growth rates high, very important.”

Wells Important Growth Economy Rate Focused Deficit

Author:John W. Snow

“Economy is a way of spending money without getting any pleasure out of it.”

Way Pleasure Economy Spending Spending Money

Author:Armand Salacrou

“Not understanding the process of a spontaneously-ordered economy goes hand-in-hand with not understanding the creation of resources and wealth. And when a person does not understand the creation of resources and wealth, the only intellectual alternative is to believe that increasing wealth must be at the cost of someone else. This belief that our good fortune must be an exploitation of others may be the taproot of false prophecy about doom that our evil ways must bring upon us.”

“Clean water is a necessity that we can no longer take for granted. Each year more people die of water related diseases than any other cause of death on this planet. With a higher rate of suffering and mortality than diabetes, cancer, high cholesterol, or war; or any two combined for that matter! An entire economy is growing around water. Those without money are suffering the most and risk severe illness from contaminated sources”

“We want consumers to say, 'That's a hell of a product' instead of, 'That's a hell of an ad.'”

Want Economy Hell Products Educational Advertising Consumers Ads Great Advertising Advertising Business

Author:Leo Burnett

“Anyone who thinks that people can be fooled or pushed around has an inaccurate and pretty low estimate of people - and he won't do very well in advertising.”

People Thinking Wells Economy Lows Educational Advertising Fooled Advertising And Marketing

Book:Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett

Source: Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett

“When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do.”

Men Can Do Economy Limits

Author:Charles M. Schwab

“All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them.”

Thinking Men Attention Economy Successful Excellence Expected Employment Performing Unusual Employers Stalking Stalking Me

Book:Succeeding With What You Have

Source: Succeeding With What You Have

“The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.”

Secret Economy Design Creation Familiar Advertising Originality Tricky New Relationship Great Advertising

Book:Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett

Source: Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett

“In studying the fate of our forest king, we have thus far considered the action of purely natural causes only; but, unfortunately, man is in the woods, and waste and pure destruction are making rapid headway. If the importance of the forests were even vaguely understood, even from an economic standpoint, their preservation would call forth the most watchful attention of government”

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“There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking.”

Has Beens Wisdom Three Politics Economy Fire Economics Invention Wheels Liberalism Banking Central Banking Great Inventions

Author:Will Rogers

“So here is the Great Society. It's the time - and it's going to be soon - when nobody in this country is poor.”

Country Poor Economy Great Society

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“Unity of command is essential to the economy of time. Warfare in the field was like a siege: by directing all one's force to a single point a breach might be made, and the equilibrium of opposition destroyed.”

Made War Might Force Economy Fields Essentials Unity Command Destroyed Opposition Warfare Equilibrium Breach Siege

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“God never made something out of nothing; it is not in the economy or law by which the worlds were, are, or will exist”

World Made Law Economy

Author:Brigham Young

“Fun without sell gets nowhere, but sell without fun tends to become obnoxious.”

Fun Economy Sells Obnoxious

Author:Leo Burnett

“The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line.”

Want Needs Humans Dream Lines Deals Economy Products Advertising Agency Assembly Human Needs Advertising Agencies Assembly Line

Author:Leo Burnett

“There is no such thing as a permanent advertising success.”

Economy Advertising Permanent

Author:Leo Burnett

“I have learned that you can’t have good advertising without a good client, that you can’t keep a good client without good advertising, and no client will ever buy better advertising than he understands or has an appetite for.”

Economy Advertising Appetite I Have Learned Clients

Book:Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett

Source: Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett

“We live in an information economy. The problem is that information's usually impossible to get, at least in the right place, at the right time.”

Problem Economy Impossible Information Obstacles Right Time Right Place

Author:Steve Jobs

“Republicans simply don't know how to manage the economy.”

Knows Know How Economy Republican Manage

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“Finally we got some good news about the economy. Barack Obama got $800 billion to rescue the economy. All I can say is, 'Thank you, Oprah.'”

I Can Economy News Billions Barack Rescue Good News

Author:David Letterman

“Education is 'the guardian genius of our democracy.' Nothing really means more to our future, not our military defenses, not our missiles or our bombers, not our production economy, not even our democratic system of government. For all of these are worthless if we lack the brain power to support and sustain them.”

“The economy has made me think I have no power. That is not true. I control the power to change my future.”

Thinking Inspirational Made Economy My Future Power To Change

Author:Jon Jones

“Indeed, as we begin the twenty-first century, the money and traditional economies are slowly destroying their own support system. Increasing demands of the two economies are surpassing the sustainable yields of the ecosystems that underpin them. For example, one-third of the world's cropland is losing topsoil at a rate that is undermining its long-term productivity, fully half of the world's rangeland is overgrazed and deteriorating into desert, and the world's forests have shrunk by about half since the dawn of agriculture and are continuing to shrink.”

“If in the human economy, a squash in the field is worth more than a bushel of soil, that does not mean that food is more valuable than soil; it means simply that we do not know how to value the soil. In its complexity and its potential longevity, the soil exceeds our comprehension; we do not know how to place a just market value on it, and we will never learn how. Its value is inestimable; we must value it, beyond whatever price we put on it, by respecting it.”

Ifs Knows Humans Mean Doe Values Know How Economy Land Fields Valuable Complexity Soil Longevity Exceed Comprehension Squash

Author:Wendell Berry

“The Recovery Act, which helped saved the economy and prevented us going into the Great Depression, was the largest investment in green technology, the largest investment in education. We rebuilt roads and bridges.”

Technology Economy Green Investment Saved Recovery Bridges Great Depression Investment In Education Green Technology

Author:Barack Obama

“If you do the things that Britain needs to do - namely, withdraw from NATO, get rid of the bomb, and stop being aligned with one side of the Cold War - then presumably the run on the pound, the result in the stock exchanges of the world, will be fairly catastrophic for the economy. But some sort of political realignment is plainly what this country needs.”

Ifs World Needs War Country Running Political Sides Results Economy Cold Britain Bombs Pounds Cold War Nato Stock Exchange

Author:David Hare

“With work increasingly invisible, it's much harder to grasp the human effects, the social contours, of the Internet economy.”

Humans Social Economy Effects Internet Harder Invisible

Author:George Packer

“The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line and, later, the service economy.”

Age Lines Economy Workers Digital Assembly Digital Age Invisibility Assembly Line

Author:George Packer