“However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products, and we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.” PeopleIfsLittlesCountryWisdomJobsPoliticalEnergyProductsPoliticianEatingMachinesWorkersIdeologyRoutineDistributionMachinery Book:Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity Source: Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity
“Politicians have a tremendous amount of ego to be able to do it. It's very hard when the product your selling to an entire country is yourself and you're just selling the hell out of it all the time.” CountryHardAbleHellProductsAmountPoliticianEgoSelling Author:George Clooney
“Companies watch what consumers are doing like a hawk. Just as one letter to a politician can signal an insipient problem, for companies, a trend where people are beginning to switch away from one of their key products to a rival offering on the basis of either claims or real improvements on performance, that's significant.” PeopleRealProblemCompanyWatchesProductsKeysPoliticianLettersPerformancesBasesClaimsImprovementSignificantConsumersTrendsOfferingSignalsRivalsHawks Author:John Elkington
“Never has the divide between the iPhone world and the politics world been so clear: I saw a bunch of people very well-served by their computers and telephones (very often Apple products) but undeniably shortchanged by our government-run cartel education system. And the tragedy for them - and for us - is that they will spend their energy trying to expand the sphere of the ineffective, hidebound, rent-seeking, unproductive political world, giving the . . .politicians. . .an even stronger whip hand over the Steve Jobses and Henry Fords - and we will be the poorer for it.” PeopleWorldGivingTryingWellsHandsGovernmentRunningPoliticalEnergyClearSawsProductsPoliticianComputerTragedyStrongerSeekingBunchApplesDividesSpheresTelephonesWhipsEducation SystemIphoneUnproductiveCartels Author:Kevin Williams
“Any politician or scientist who tells you these [GMO] products are safe is either very stupid or lying.” LyingStupidProductsPoliticianSafeScientistGmosVery Stupid Author:David Suzuki
“There's politics. When you talk about Asia - no one really wants to approach that full-force because it's very thin ice. No one wants to harm the relations with Asia, where most of those products are going to and being exported to. Many of the local institutions and politicians and veterinarians are involved in illegal trade. To crack that down, it's a big crime and big names to reveal.” WantBigsNamesForceCrimeProductsInvolvedPoliticianApproachRelationInstitutionsTradeHarmLocalsIceIllegalCracksAsiaVeterinarian Author:Veronika Varekova
“When you're selling a product or service, you don't have - it doesn't have to be absolutely perfect, although I've provided language that is. When you're a politician, one wrong word changes the entire - changes the meaning of something.” LanguagePerfectProductsPoliticianSellingWrong Words Author:Frank Luntz
“I think it's interesting that a lot of times people want celebrities to give back in the way that they want them to give back. They want them to give money to the cause they think is important and when that doesn't happen they say, "Oh, they're not doing anything." People think celebrities are going to solve their problems. People think because someone is famous or an athlete or a politician that the solution begins with them. All they're there to do is sell you a product.” PeopleThinkingWayWantGivingImportantProblemHappensCausesInterestingProductsPoliticianSolutionsSellsAthleteSolveGiving Back Author:Rhymefest