“We know taxes slow down economic growth, so if you add a carbon tax you have to also minus other taxes. You can't take more money out of people's pockets. I don't think you can build a consensus in this country about environmental policy if you're going to make people poor.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsCountryGrowthPoorEconomicPolicyTaxesAddEnvironmentalPocketsMore MoneyCarbonSlow DownConsensusEconomic GrowthMinusEnvironmental PolicyCarbon Tax Author:Christy Clark
“We're up at almost seven billion people on the planet and most of that growth has been in the developing world.” PeopleWorldHas BeensGrowthPlanetsSevenBillionsDeveloping Author:Kevin Bales
“If I could say something about Capricornia, and it came out in your previous report, there is no doubt that the end of the mining boom has led to an economic downturn in central Queensland, and that is why people in Capricornia, and elsewhere in central Queensland too, are so desperate for a government that will protect their jobs and create new opportunities for jobs in the future. And that is why [Malcolm] Turnbull government's message of jobs and growth and its six point economic plan is so important to them.” PeopleIfsImportantEndsGovernmentJobsOpportunityGrowthDoubtPlansEconomicProtectSixMessagesNo DoubtDesperateIf I CouldReportsElsewhereMiningNew OpportunityQueenslandDownturnEconomic Downturn Author:George Brandis
“The people who see the population explosion in the Malthusian way - as a geometric progression - forget that population growth is not a biological issue. People are not increasing in numbers out of stupidity and ignorance. Population growth is an ecological phenomenon linked very intimately to other issues, such as the usurpation of the resources which allow people to live.” PeopleWayGrowthForgetNumbersIssuesIgnoranceResourcesPopulationStupidityPhenomenonLinkedExplosionsProgressionEcologicalPopulation GrowthGeometricStupidity And IgnoranceUsurpationPopulation Explosion Author:Vandana Shiva
“When there's deflation, it means that although most markets are shrinking and people have less to spend, the 1% that hold the 99% in debt are getting all the growth in wealth and income. Deflation means that income is being transferred to the 1%, that is, to the creditors and property owners.” PeopleMeanGrowthWealthPropertyDebtIncomeOwnersShrinkingCreditorsDeflation Author:Michael Hudson
“There is a role for growth and experiencing the world, and pushing the boundaries of that, and then there is a time to bring it within. All people are at different stages of that journey.” PeopleWorldDifferentGrowthRolesJourneyStageBoundariesPushingExperiencing The World Author:Karan Bajaj
“People on a spiritual path - personal growth, spiritual practice, recovery, yoga and so forth - are the last people who should be sitting out the social and political issues of our day. And there’s an important reason for this: People on such journeys are adepts at change. They know that the mechanics of the heart and mind are the fundamental drivers of transformation.” PeopleKnowsShouldMindHeartImportantReasonLastsSpiritualPoliticalSocialGrowthPracticePathIssuesJourneyYogaSittingTransformationFundamentalsPersonal GrowthRecoveryDriversMechanicHeart And MindSpiritual PathSpiritual PracticePolitical Issues Author:Marianne Williamson
“What we can do is to shape how that process of global integration proceeds, so that it's increasing opportunity for ordinary people, so that it's creating better jobs, so that we are strengthening protections for workers, so that we are addressing some of the environmental challenges that come with rapid growth.” PeopleJobsOpportunityProcessGrowthCan DoChallengesShapesCreatingOrdinaryEnvironmentalWorkersProtectionIntegrationOrdinary PeopleRapidsStrengtheningBetter JobsRapid GrowthEnvironmental Challenges Author:Barack Obama
“Like Lucas [Goodman] has said, between the people we've met, and the experiences we've had, it's just our growth. It's just something that represents all of what Lion Babe started as and where we're going.” PeopleSaidGrowthMetsLionsBabeGoodman Author:Jillian Hervey
“I wrote the book [Today Matters] because I have a passion to help people personally grow. Really what it is, it's a personal growth book.” PeopleBookMatterHelpingTodayPassionGrowsGrowthPersonal Growth Author:John C. Maxwell
“For many many years, I've taught, not only leadership, but I've taught people that they need a personal growth plan. Growth is not an automatic process for you or me or anybody.” PeopleNeedsYearsProcessGrowthPlansTaughtPersonal Growth Author:John C. Maxwell
“People say, "John, what's your personal growth?" And ask "How do you grow?" And I tell them. I thought, "Why do I keep telling them, why don't I just write a book on what I call personal growth?" And that's what this [Today Matters] book is.” PeopleWritingBookMatterTodayAsksGrowsGrowthPersonal Growth Author:John C. Maxwell
“When you finish reading the book [Today Matters], take the daily dozen and list them in order of how well you do them. For example, the one that I would put at the highest for me is attitude or relationships because I'm really strong at both of those. At the bottom would be health. What I tell people is, "Take one month and work on one of the daily dozen for a whole year." And so it's really a one-year personal growth plan.” PeopleYearsWellsBookMatterWholeWould BeTodayOrderReadingStrongGrowthAttitudePlansExampleMonthsHighestPersonal GrowthBottomListsDozenWhole Year Author:John C. Maxwell
“Well I'm not making predictions. But the point I can - what I can say to you to contribute to your thinking is as somebody who has been out knocking on doors, doing the street corners, speaking to constituents right across the country is that the Government - that people understand that the Government's message of jobs and growth is addressing their concerns and they have a level of - a high level of confidence that Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison are the people who can deliver.” PeopleThinkingWellsHas BeensI CanCountryGovernmentJobsGrowthLevelsDoorsStreetsMessagesConcernCornersPredictionsKnockingHigh LevelConstituentsStreet CornersKnocking On Doors Author:George Brandis
“You asked me about Queensland in particular and regional Queensland where our message of jobs and growth is resonating strongly because that's what is on people's mind, and when the election results are in on 2nd July, I'm confident that that message will be translated into the ballot box.” PeopleMindJobsGrowthResultsParticularMessagesElectionBoxesJulyBallotsQueenslandResonatingElection Results Author:George Brandis
“I think the critical point, really, is that we need to focus black economic empowerment more on the creation of new wealth rather than on these big deals that have been characteristic of this process in the past, of people going to banks, borrowing a lot of money, buying this and when the shares don't perform very well, the shares go back to the banks, because there's other people who own this anyway. I think we need to re-focus it so that it really does impact on growth, new investment, new employment and a general, better spread of wealth in South Africa.” PeopleThinkingNeedsWellsDoeHas BeensBigsPastProcessBlackGrowthWealthDealsFocusShareEconomicCreationEmpowermentImpactInvestmentSouthSpreadCriticalEmploymentCharacteristicsBuyingLots Of MoneySouth AfricaBig DealBorrowingEconomic Empowerment Author:Thabo Mbeki
“I think that in the last eight years, we were averaging economic growth of about 2 percent. It's not good. It's very slow. It's a slow pace. People are expecting that pace to continue if Hillary Clinton becomes president.” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsLastsGrowthPresidentEconomicPercentClintonEightPaceExpectingEconomic Growth Author:Maria Bartiromo
“It's moderate growth, with some parts of the world better than people think, and better than last year [2015].” PeopleThinkingWorldYearsLastsGrowthLast YearModerates Author:Jamie Dimon
“The yen is trading where it's trading because people are guessing about people's future interest rates, dollar and yen and about the future growth potential of the economies. And, if this policy works, then the yen will probably strengthen.” PeopleIfsGrowthInterestEconomyPolicyDollarsRateTradingGuessingInterest RateFuture Growth Author:Jamie Dimon
“I think it's going to be a tough century; I also think people are starting to rise up, and that a growth in human solidarity will help compensate for the loss of margin in the natural world that will make life harder.” PeopleThinkingWorldHumansHelpingGrowthNaturalLossCenturyToughHarderStartingSolidarityNatural WorldMargins Author:Bill McKibben
“I think what is true is that there's been an underlying division in the United States. Some of it has to do with the fact that economic growth and recovery tends to be stronger in the cities and in urban areas. In some rural areas, particularly those that were reliant on manufacturing, there has been weaker growth, stagnation, people feeling as if their children won't do as well as they will.” PeopleIfsThinkingWellsChildrenHas BeensStatesFactsFeelingsGrowthUnitedCitiesUnited StatesEconomicAreasStrongerRecoveryDivisionUrbanEconomic GrowthManufacturingStagnationRural AreasUrban Areas Author:Barack Obama
“Keep in mind that, when I came in, we had had a crisis that was the worst we've seen since the 1930s, and working with people like Chancellor Merkel, working with the G-20 and other institutions internationally, we were able to stabilize the financial system, stabilize the US economy and return to growth.” PeopleMindAbleGrowthEconomyWorstReturnCrisisInstitutionsFinancial1930sFinancial System Author:Barack Obama
“Growth in productivity has diverged from growth in the share that working people can expect right across advanced economies, but this trend started earlier and has been more pronounced in the U.S.” PeopleHas BeensGrowthEconomyShareProductivityTrends Author:Mariana Mazzucato
“People don't scream or swear or pout or sulk when there's compatibility. But most growth occurs when there's incompatibility. When it comes to resilience, when it comes to pulling yourself up when you've fallen down, you don't learn those things when things are going well. You learn those things when you're struggling.” PeopleWellsGrowthStruggleResilienceFallenScreamSwearPullingCompatibilityIncompatibility Author:Ross W. Greene
“I think the thing we must look for actually is a growth in our people and in whoever comes in a quality of courage to tell our people just what world conditions are.” PeopleThinkingWorldLooksGrowthQualityConditions Author:Eleanor Roosevelt
“Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.” PeopleIfsMeanGrowthEconomicEconomic Growth Author:Jack Kemp
“I'm very primitive in terms of economics. The kind of new business in which stock gets more valuable because the company grows, but there must be limits to growth. But if publishing is expanding to fill that retail space, it seems like there may be a necessary and unpleasant correction waiting down the road. How many books to people WANT?” PeopleIfsWantKindMayBookSeemsGrowsWaitingGrowthTermSpaceCompanyLimitsEconomicsValuablePrimitivePublishingExpandingCorrectionsDown The RoadRetailNew Business Author:William Gibson
“If you can clean up the cesspool of the tax code and give us a pro-growth tax code, that is how you grow the economy. That`s how you take power and money out of Washington and give it back to the people and we are so excited. We have a president [Donald Trump] that is here to work with us in doing that.” PeopleIfsGivingGrowsGrowthPresidentEconomyTrumpTaxesCleanExcitedCode Author:Paul Ryan
“People don't tend to notice, but in the past 10 years especially there's been a lot of growth in how I write songs and what goes into them. You can listen to Mountain Goats from 1991 to 2007 and never hear a seventh chord. In 2007 or 2008, I started working on the piano to grow as a songwriter. I started throwing major sevens in and sixes and more interesting stuff.” PeopleWritingYearsPastSongGrowsStuffGrowthInterestingMountainMajorsPianoThrowingSongwritersChordsGoatsInteresting Stuff Author:John Darnielle
“I just feel like the people who are discouraged about religion, it's [really] the connotation of people that go to church. People that go to church love the Lord and they like to be around people who love the Lord. It's a fellowship and it's a growth and it's a feeding for them that when they're in a social group of people who believe, it makes them grow spiritually.” PeopleFeelsBelieveSocialGrowsGrowthChurchLordGroupsFeedingDiscouragedFellowshipConnotationSocial Groups Author:Reba McEntire
“I think it is important that we are targeting HIV/AIDS resources into the communities where we're seeing the highest growth rates. That means education and prevention, particularly with young people.” PeopleThinkingMeanImportantYoungGrowthCommunitySeeingHighestResourcesRateAidsHivPreventionHiv Aids Author:Barack Obama
“You can't have 23 million people struggling to get a job. You can't have an economy that over the last three years keeps slowing down its growth rate. You can't have kids coming out of college, half of them can't find a job today, or a job that's commensurate with their college degree. We have to get our economy going.” PeopleYearsKidsTodayJobsLastsThreeGrowthHalfMillionsStruggleEconomyCollegeDegreesRateComing OutThree YearsSlow DownSlowingCollege Degree Author:Mitt Romney
“For me I'm natural not because somebody else believes I'm natural, I'm natural because I don't use steroids, I don't use growth hormone, I don't use any of those enhancers. I'm natural in my own right because I don't do that and not because other people accept the fact that I'm natural or not.” PeopleBelieveFactsUseGrowthNaturalMy OwnAcceptingHormonesSteroidGrowth Hormones Author:Kai Greene
“Common, ordinary, everyday Democrats, not leftists, there may be - if the agenda gets implemented and this country starts humming on the domestic side and if jobs come back and if the economy gets up to 3% growth and is sustained and the job market expands accordingly and people's wages go up, it won't matter.” PeopleIfsMayCountryMatterJobsSidesGrowthCommonEconomyOrdinaryDemocratEverydayGet UpAgendasWagesLeftistsHumming Author:Rush Limbaugh
“For the three decades after WWII, incomes grew at about 3 percent a year for people up and down the income ladder, but since then most income growth has occurred among the top quintile. And among that group, most of the income growth has occurred among the top 5 percent. The pattern repeats itself all the way up. Most of the growth among the top 5 percent has been among the top 1 percent, and most of the growth among that group has been among the top one-tenth of one percent.” PeopleWayYearsHas BeensThreeGrowthGroupsGrewPercentPatternsDecadesIncomeRepeatsLaddersUp And DownWwii Author:Robert H. Frank
“We've got to make sure that we rebuild the infrastructure in America, because we used to be - have the best bridges, the best roads, the best airports. And now, when you go to China or you go to Europe, you see that they are outstripping us in terms of infrastructure. And if we put people back to work, that would be good not only in the short term, but it would also lay the foundation, the framework for long-term economic and job growth.” PeopleIfsLongWould BeJobsAmericaUsedGrowthTermEconomicEuropeFoundationLaysChinaBe GoodUsed To BeBridgesLong TermAirportsInfrastructureFrameworkShort TermBack To WorkJob Growth Author:Barack Obama
“Do people have confidence? I think the real confidence you need is the confidence in your outlook, and I think people are pretty confident it is a low-growth world.” PeopleThinkingWorldNeedsRealGrowthLowsOutlookHave Confidence Author:Ken Moelis
“Whatever it is, in a 1% GDP world, I think people feel like there are other things they have to do other than just organic growth.” PeopleThinkingWorldFeelsGrowthGdp Author:Ken Moelis
“I'm a very wide reader. I read serious books and I read airplane, forgettable books. I never have fewer than four or five books beside my bed at night. I particularly enjoy reading about people who have gone through a personal growth.” PeopleBookNightReadingEnjoyGrowthGoneFiveFourSeriousReaderBedPersonal GrowthWideFewerAirplaneForgettable Author:Mary Robinson
“Initially, QE contributed to a pretty significant increase in inequality. It raised asset prices, which are owned primarily by the wealthy, while having relatively small if any positive impacts on bank lending, employment, wages or economic growth, so ordinary people haven't had much help. By the third round of QE in 2012-2014, the effects had likely muted quite a bit. There were probably not big impacts on asset prices from QE and the positive effects on employment growth might have strengthened somewhat.” PeopleIfsHelpingBigsMightBitsGrowthEconomicEffectsHavensOrdinaryThirdsIncreaseImpactRaisedRoundsSignificantEmploymentInequalityWealthyAssetsWagesOrdinary PeopleEconomic GrowthLendingPositive ImpactHaving StrengthBig Impact Author:Gerald Epstein
“America did not need to be discovered because quite simply America had the American-Indians. There were whole groups of people that already lived there including very developed societies such as the Incas, the Aztecs, and the Mayans. But then came the European vision that saw the conquest as a source of advanced growth away from medieval Europe. The new revolutionary bourgeois trend formed a new perspective on what was democracy that they saw as an improvement to the democracy of ancient Greece.” PeopleNeedsWholeAmericaGrowthVisionDemocracySawsGroupsSourcePerspectiveEuropeIncludingAncientImprovementRevolutionaryTrendsConquestGreeceMedievalBourgeoisNew PerspectiveAncient GreeceMayansMedieval EuropeIncas Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“There are times when a market such as housing, transportation or the stock or mortgage market keep rising and people with capital want to join in this growth. Soon the markets become overheated, partly because of the abundance of investment money and speculation. This is when the government should raise interest rates and increase the cost of borrowed money. Governments are shy about doing this because it could cause the very recession. Yet this is the best time to do this so that the inevitable recession never reaches the magnitude of the recent Great Recession.” PeopleWantShouldGovernmentCausesGrowthInterestCostIncreaseRaisesInvestmentRateInevitableRisingAbundanceShySpeculationHousingMortgageTransportationBorrowedMagnitudeRecessionsBest TimesInterest RateBorrowed MoneyGreat Recession Author:Philip Kotler
“London had always been different. There is the old saying that Britain is ten years behind America, and the country as a whole is ten years behind London. If you have a Mayor of London working for jobs and growth and strong businesses, that is going to create opportunities for businesses and people in Burnley or Hull and places all over the UK.” PeopleIfsYearsDifferentCountryWholeJobsAmericaOpportunityStrongGrowthBehindsTenLondonBritainMayorsOld SayingHull Author:Sadiq Khan
“When we talk about economic growth, we're not talking about bringing a bunch of companies in that can make a bunch of bucks and hope they spend 'em in our city. We're talking about creating jobs, creating new companies and then we move from there to talk about cooperatives which can become some of those jobs, some of the solidarity economy where we can begin to band together people so they'll understand that a job is not a single individual affair but a collective affair.” PeopleTogetherJobsMovingIndividualGrowthCitiesCompanyTalkingEconomyEconomicBandCreatingAffairBunchEmsCollectivesSolidarityEconomic GrowthBucksNot TalkingCooperativesCreating JobsNew Company Author:Chokwe Lumumba
“I am always looking for inspiration. I always live in big cities where I can go every day to a museum, see a lecture, meet people that are artists, go to the cinema. For me, it's like food. It is necessary for my personal growth as a person to grow as an artist, I go basically every week to three or four things. But it's real life that inspires me - when I meet somebody, when I see something.” PeoplePersonsI CanRealBigsInspirationArtistThreeGrowsGrowthCitiesFourWeekInspirePersonal GrowthReal LifeCinemaMuseumsLecturesBig CitiesLooking For Inspiration Author:Blanca Li
“I'm realizing that the people who criticize what I'm doing, their intentions and comments are not actually real.There's nothing happening in the real world outside of whatever they're writing on the internet. Whereas for the people who feel inspired by what I'm doing, there's something so concrete and powerful in what's happening when they feel empowered. There's actually some kind of growth or self-acceptance, some kind of self-love that's actually being triggered, hopefully. And that's real.” PeopleWorldWritingKindRealGrowthRealizingPowerfulInternetIntentionInspiredHopefullyCriticizeCommentReal WorldConcreteEmpowered Author:Amandla Stenberg
“Today's national income statistics make it appear that Goldman Sachs is productive. As if Donald Trump plays a productive role. The aim is to make it appear that people who take money from the rest of the economy without working are productive, despite not really providing any service that actually contributes to GDP and economic growth.” PeopleGrowthEconomyEconomicAimProductiveEconomic Growth Author:Michael Hudson
“Get support and be surrounded by people who love you. Sit with the discomfort and the emotions instead of distracting yourself and numbing the pain, or it will just haunt you in another form in the future. Don't be afraid of the pain and darkness. There's information there. There's a lesson to be learned. You can use the experience as a catalyst for growth.” PeoplePainGrowthEmotionDarknessSupportLove You Author:Amy Chan
“Try to look at the bigger picture. The majority of people you date will not be your destination. They were meant to be a bridge. So find the lesson, the growth opportunity so you don't have to keep repeating your pattern and crossing that same bridge over and over again. Once you learn what you need to learn and become more self-aware and emotionally healthy, you will then cross another bridge, and one day you'll get to your destination.” PeopleTryingOpportunityGrowthHealthyOne DayMeant To BeBigger Picture Author:Amy Chan
“When people talk about people being left behind - middle wages have not gone up for years, and we should recognize that, and there I think we need growth and skills - but there are these other people who have been left behind. When I say out loud, "Fifty percent of inner-city schoolkids do not graduate from high school," that is a national catastrophe. We should be ringing the alarm bells. It's not fair.” PeopleThinkingSchoolGrowthHigh SchoolGraduatesCatastropheLeft Behind Author:Jamie Dimon