“Why are drugs so profitable? Essentially, many argue, it’s because they are illegal. By making drugs a criminal enterprise, it creates an enormous black market economy where drugs fetch far greater prices than they would if legal.” IfsBlackEconomyGreaterDrugCriminalsArguingEnormousEnterpriseIllegalProfitableMarket EconomyFetch Author:James Morcan
“Words change their meanings, just as organisms evolve. We would impose an enormous burden on our economy if we insisted on payment in cattle every time we identified a bonus as a pecuniary advantage (from the Latin pecus , or cattle, a verbal fossil from a former commercial reality).” IfsRealityEconomyAdvantageBurdenEnormousFormerEvolveLatinOrganismsFossilsPaymentCattleBonus Book:The Structure of Evolutionary Theory Source: The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
“Africa's agricultural sector has enormous scope for development, which would benefit both the continent's economy and its people.” PeopleEconomyDevelopmentBenefitsEnormousContinentsScope Author:Richard Attias
“What saved the economy, and the New Deal, was the enormous public works project known as World War II, which finally provided a fiscal stimulus adequate to the economy’s needs.” WorldNeedsWarDealsKnownEconomyProjectsSavedEnormousWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War IAdequateStimulusNew Deal Author:Paul Krugman
“If you economically empower a woman, she represents enormous opportunity that can actually be transformative not only for her family and for her community, but at the aggregate level for the economy.” IfsOpportunityCommunityLevelsEconomyEnormousEmpowering Author:Sheryl WuDunn
“If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner.” IfsMenWisdomPoliticalPoliticsLeaderEconomyFateProgramLeavingEnormousLiberalismOblivionUtopiaPolitical LeadersInitiate Author:R. Buckminster Fuller
“I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable, but the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property.” WisdomPoliticsEconomyMankindEqualConsciousConsequencePropertyMiseryEnormousInequalityLiberalismDevicesDivisionLegislators Book:The Essential Jefferson Source: The Essential Jefferson
“It takes an enormous amount of energy, creative energy withdrawn from the total economy of the person, to hold a trait underground, and, unfortunately, needs and drives do not go underground alone; they carry with them useful parts of the personality, depriving it of richness and the possibility of a variety of response.” NeedsPersonsEnergyEconomyCreativePossibilityPersonalityAmountResponseEnormousVarietyDenialTraitsRichnessCreative EnergyDepriving Book:Advice from a Failure Source: Advice from a Failure
“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.” JobsResultsCompanyLeaderTechnologyEconomyPsychologyGreaterResourcesCompetitionEnormous Author:Tony Robbins
“The problems with willpower are many, but they may hardly be noticed by the person focused narrowly on success. First, there is little economy of means; in systems thinking terms, we act without leverage. We attain our goals, but the effort is enormous and we may find ourselves exhausted and wondering if it was worth it when we have succeeded. Ironically, people hooked on willpower may actually look for obstacles to overcome, dragons to slay, and enemies to vanquish--to remind themselves and others of their own prowess.” PeopleIfsThinkingFirstsLooksMayMeanLittlesPersonsProblemGoalTermEffortWonderEnemyEconomyOvercomingObstaclesFocusedEnormousDragonsWorth ItExhaustedWillpowerHookedSystems ThinkingProwessVanquish Author:Peter Senge
“In an economy, an act, a habit, an institution, or a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a series of effects. Of these effects, the first only is immediate; it manifests itself simultaneously with its cause - it is seen. The others unfold in succession - they are not seen. Now this difference is enormous, for it is often true that when the immediate consequence is favorable, the ultimate consequences are fatal, and the converse.” GivingFirstsLawCausesDifferencesEconomyEffectsBirthHabitConsequenceUltimateInstitutionsSeriesInvestingEnormousSuccessionConverses Author:Frederic Bastiat
“The only people benefiting in Iraq war are George Bush's Jr. friends in the oil industry. He has done the American economy and the global economy an enormous disfavor, but his Texan friends couldn't be happier.” PeopleWarDoneEconomyIndustryIraqOilEnormousIraq WarGlobal EconomyTexanAmerican EconomyOil Industry Author:Joseph Stiglitz
“Martin Luther King was talking about racism, war and poverty. I think we have made progress enormous progress in racism and war, but we have made little or no progress in poverty. And it's because the economy has gotten more and more complex as we have globalized.” ThinkingLittlesMadeWarTalkingPovertyEconomyProgressKingsRacismComplexesEnormousLuther Author:Andrew Young