“The world political system is till based on the concept of the national sovereign state. For the first time therefore, in three hundred years economy and sovereignty are becoming divorced from each other.” WorldYearsFirstsStatesPoliticalThreeEconomyBecomingHundredConceptsFirst TimeSovereignSovereigntyDivorcedPolitical Systems Author:Peter Drucker
“The economy - once a great scatter of small productive units in autonomous balance, has become dominated by two or three hundred giant corporations, administratively and politically interrelated... The political order, once a decentralized set of several dozen states with a weak spinal cord, has become a centralized executive establishment which has taken up into itself many powers previously scattered... The military order, once a slim establishment in a context of distrust fed by state militia, has become the largest and most expensive feature of government.” TwoStatesGovernmentPoliticalOrderThreeEconomyTakenMilitaryBalanceHundredWeakCorporationsFeaturesGiantsExpensiveProductiveExecutivesFedsEstablishmentDozenUnitsDistrustCordsMilitiaSlimAutonomousSpinal Cord Author:C. Wright Mills
“Without investments in research and science that will create the next Apple, create the next new innovation that will sell products around the world, we will lose. If we're not training engineers to make sure that they are equipped here in this country, then companies won't come here. Those investments are what's going to help to make sure that we continue to lead this world economy not just next year, but 10 years from now, 50 years from now, a hundred years from now.” IfsWorldYearsCountryHelpingNextLosesCompanyEconomyThis WorldProductsTrainingResearchHundredInnovationSellsInvestmentAround The WorldApplesEngineersNext YearWorld Economy Author:Barack Obama
“Our economy is a hundred times better, than the average African economy. Outside South Africa, what country is [as good as] Zimbabwe?.. What is lacking now are goods on the shelves - that is all.” CountryEconomyHundredSouthAverageGoodsSouth AfricaLackingShelvesZimbabwe Author:Robert Mugabe
“Two hundred years ago the first liberal economist, Adam Smith, warned businessmen that they could absorb only a certain amount of rigidity. In the easy days after World War II... wage rises could be financed out of inflationary price increases.” WorldYearsFirstsTwoWarWisdomCertainPoliticsEasyEconomyAmountHundredYears AgoIncreaseWar Of The WorldsLiberalismWorld War IiAdamWorld War IBusinessmanEconomistRigidityEasy Days Author:John Chamberlain
“Of the land which the Romans gained by conquest from their neighbours, part they sold publicly, and turned the remainder into common; this common land they assigned to such of the citizens as were poor and indigent, for which they were to pay only a small acknowledgment into the public treasury. But when the wealthy men began to offer larger rents, and drive the poorer people out, it was enacted by law that no person whatever should enjoy more than five hundred acres of ground.” PeopleMenShouldPersonsLawPoliticsEnjoyPoorCommonPayEconomyFiveLandCitizensOffersHundredLiberalismWealthyConquestNeighbourTreasuryAcresAcknowledgment Book:Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Dryden's Source: Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Dryden's
“Over hundred years ago Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act. There was wide distribution of land and they didn't confiscate anyone's privately owned land... We need an industrial Homestead Act.” NeedsYearsWisdomPoliticsEconomyLandHundredYears AgoWideLiberalismDistributionAbrahamHomestead Act Author:Ronald Reagan
“I don't think you can pump carbon dioxide into the atmosphere indefinitely and not have a reaction. But there are great scientists such as Freeman Dyson, one of the greatest physicists of the last hundred years, who has studied the question, who believes quite the opposite. The reason transnational action is so difficult is because the major problem with climate change is, A, that there is no consensus, and, B, that the economic cost is simply staggering. Reversing it completely might mean undoing the modern industrial economy.” ThinkingYearsBelieveMeanReasonProblemMightActionLastsDifficultEconomyEconomicModernCostMajorsHundredOppositesScientistClimateClimate ChangeReactionsAtmosphereCarbonPhysicistConsensusPumpsStaggeringCarbon DioxideFreemanUndoingGreat ScientistMajor Problems Author:Charles Krauthammer
“The economy is a ponzi scheme. People are working harder than they ever have for less wages, but we have so many bobbles because manufacturing has come up so quickly over the past hundred years that people have the illusion of wealth.” PeopleYearsPastWealthEconomyIllusionHundredHarderCome UpSchemesWagesManufacturingOver The PastPonzi Scheme Author:Alex Jones
“I am not a believer in large salaries. I hold that every man should be paid for personal production. Our big men at Bethlehem seldom get salaries of over one hundred dollars a week; but all of them receive bonuses computed entirely on the efficiencies and the economies registered in their departments.” MenShouldBigsEconomyWeekHundredPaidDollarsProductionsBelieverEvery ManDepartmentEfficiencySalaryBonusBethlehem Book:Succeeding With What You Have Source: Succeeding With What You Have
“People are are moving away from the fossil fuel-based economy, to a more renewable economy. That is what is called the 'transition town' movement. There are three hundred towns in Britain that are making this transition. Taking energy from solar power, from wind power, from water power.” PeopleMovingThreeEnergyWaterEconomyMovementWindHundredTownsFuelBritainTransitionFossilsFossil FuelMoving AwaySolar PowerWind PowerWater Power Author:Satish Kumar
“It's no surprise that if you look at the development of the economy, of consumerism, of all these things that have gotten out of hand over the last hundred years, it happened when men were purposeless, when they didn't actually have a legitimate reason to be moving the species forward because the machines were doing all the hard work.” IfsMenYearsLooksHardReasonHandsLastsMovingEconomyHappenedHard WorkDevelopmentHundredMachinesSurpriseSpeciesConsumerism Author:Peter Buffett
“Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.” YearsMadeTwoNationsSimpleEconomyMilitaryGreatnessPrideHundredYears AgoSizeHeightTonightPatrioticDeclarationPremisesSkyscraper Author:Barack Obama
“It takes a big idea to attract the attention of consumers and get them to buy your product. Unless your advertising contains a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night. I doubt if more than one campaign in a hundred contains a big idea.” IfsIdeasBigsNightAttentionEconomyDoubtProductsHundredCampaignsShipsAdvertisingConsumersBig Ideas Author:David Ogilvy
“Entrepreneurship rests on a theory of economy and society. The theory sees change as normal and indeed as healthy. And it sees the major task in society – and especially in the economy – as doing something different rather than doing better what is already being done. This is basically what Say, two hundred years ago, meant when he coined the term entrepreneur.” YearsTwoDifferentDoneTermEconomyCreativeTheoryHealthyNormalMajorsHundredYears AgoTasksDestructionEntrepreneurEntrepreneurshipUpsetDeclarationDissentBeing DoneManifestosCreative Destruction Author:Peter Drucker