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“If you don't have a functioning financial system the world economy won't be revived. All the major economies have their responsibility to assist at a pace which is required to clean up the balance sheet of the banking system and to ensure that credit flows are resumed.”

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Author:Manmohan Singh

“A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today's global economy.”

“Henry Ford was right. A prosperous economy requires that workers be able to buy the products that they produce. This is as true in a global economy as a national one.”

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Author:John J. Sweeney

“As economic life relies more and more on the Internet, the potential for small bands of hackers to launch devastating attacks on the world economy is growing.”

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Author:Evgeny Morozov

“The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population.”

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Author:Bill Bryson

“Maybe they'd use biological or chemical weapons instead. Maybe they'd crash the world economy. Maybe they'd turn every program on television into one of those reality shows." "That's mostly done already, Harry." "Oh. Well. I've got to believe that the world is worth saving anyway.”

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Book:The Dresden Files Collection 7-12

Source: The Dresden Files Collection 7-12

“There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed.”

“I have no interest in celebrities. If all the superrich disappeared, the world economy would not even notice. The superrich are irrelevant to the economy.”

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Author:Peter Drucker

“World economies are always so tenuous and we are subject to so many losses in life, but a compassionate attitude is something we can always carry with us.”

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Book:The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living

Source: The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living

“I feel more confident than ever that the power to save the planet rests with the individual consumer.”

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Author:Denis Hayes

“Oil prices have certainly become a threat for the world economy.”

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Author:Rodrigo Rato

“The American president [George W. Bush] closes his eyes to the economic and human damages that are inflicted on his country and the world economy by natural disasters, like Katrina, through neglected climate protection.”

“Nuclear terrorism is still often treated as science fiction. I wish it were. But unfortunately we live in a world of excess hazardous materials and abundant technological know-how, in which some terrorists clearly state their intention to inflict catastrophic casualties. Were such an attack to occur, it would not only cause widespread death and destruction, but would stagger the world economy... [creating] a second death toll throughout the developing world.”

“Our view is that economic isolationism is the wrong way to go. Vibrant, successful growing economies that advance the interests of their citizens engage the global economy. And, we're committed to engaging the global economy.”

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Author:John W. Snow

“Our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics.”

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Author:David Korten

“We are moving toward a global economy. One way of approaching that is to pull the covers over your head. Another is to say: It may be more complicated - but that's the world I am going to live in, I might as well be good at it.”

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Author:Philip M. Condit

“Our system of private health insurance that fails to provide coverage to so many of our citizens also contributes to the double-digit health care inflation that is making America less competitive in the global economy.”

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Author:John Conyers

“In this global economy, no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost, skilled labor overseas are an explosive combination.”

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Author:Bob Taft

“Instead of saying that globalization is a fact, that it's inevitable, we've also got to demonstrate that while the growing interdependence of the world economy is indeed a fact, it's not uncontrollable.”

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Author:Peter Mandelson

“In today's global economy, however, it is important to raise the bar of excellence even higher. Today's students must be prepared to compete effectively on an international level.”

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Author:Kenny Marchant

“It is historically the case that virtually every new zone incorporated into the world-economy established levels of real remuneration which were at the bottom of the world-system's hierarchy of wage-levels.”

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Book:Capistalist Civilisation

Source: Capistalist Civilisation

“I rather wish to rest my case on material considerations, not those of the social future but those of the actual historical period of the capitalist world-economy.”

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Book:Capistalist Civilisation

Source: Capistalist Civilisation

“The second reason why we haven't observed the growing gap is that our historical and social science analyses have concentrated on what has been happening within the 'middle classes' - that is, to that ten to fifteen percent of the population of the world-economy who consumed more surplus than they themselves produced. Within this sector there really has been a relatively dramatic flattening of the curve between the very top (less than one percent of the total population) and the truly 'middle' segments, or cadres (the rest of the ten to fifteen percent).”

“The very concept of universal formal education is a product (and a relatively late product) of the capitalist world-economy.”

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Book:Capistalist Civilisation

Source: Capistalist Civilisation

“It's not just global warming, it's not just a loss of biodiversity, it's not just the pollution of our oceans and the clearing of our rainforests and all these complicated systems, The [11th Hour] movie talks about the world economy, it talks about politics, it talks about personal transformation and environmental consciousness that we need to have in this generation to implement a lot of these changes that need to occur.”

“In today's integrated world economy, ... eradicating poverty may contribute as much to U.S. security as eradicating terrorism.”

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Author:Lester R. Brown

“A few months ago people were talking about seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. Now the only hope is keeping the world economy from total deterioration. And you get a sense that it is all now truly left to Adam Smith's invisible hand--it's beyond any country's ability, and institution's ability to control.”

“In this new world economy, national boundaries are increasingly becoming obsolete.”

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Book:Ronald Reagan

Source: Ronald Reagan

“America knows it has got to deal with its deficit problems so that it, too, can promise it is making its proper and best contributions to the world economy.”

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Author:Gordon Brown

“Leadership of a world-economy is an experience of power which may blind the victor to the march of history.”

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Book:Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century: The perspective of the world

Source: Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century: The perspective of the world

“If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them.”

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Author:Dan Glickman

“It says something about this new global economy that USA Today now reports every morning on the day's events in Asian markets.”

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Author:Lawrence Summers

“It hit me very early on that something was terribly wrong, that I would see silos full of food and supermarkets full of food, and kids starving. ... In Fair Trade, we see ourselves as this infinitesimal part of the world economy. But somebody's got to come up with an alternative model that says children eating is No. 1.”

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Author:Medea Benjamin

“... the place where [adults] pass the most time and submit to the closest control is at work. Thus, without even entering into the question of the world economy's ultimate dictation within narrow limits of everybody's productive activity, it's apparent that the source of the greatest direct duress experienced by the ordinary adult is _not_ the state but rather the business that employs him. Your foreman or supervisor gives you more or-else orders in a week than the police do in a decade.”

Source: The Abolition of Work and Other Essays

“To demonize state authoritarianism while ignoring identical albeit contract-consecrated subservient arrangements in the large-scale corporations which control the world economy is fetishism at its worst.”

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Book:The Abolition of Work and Other Essays

Source: The Abolition of Work and Other Essays

“Well, I think the global economy is in the position for continuing good growth with inflation well in check.”

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Author:John W. Snow

“Yes, twenty-seven million in slavery is a lot of people, but it is just .0043 percent of the world's population. Yes, $23 billion a year in slave-made products as services is a lot of money but it is exactly what Americans spent on Valentine's Day in 2005. If humans trafficking generates $32 billion in profits annually, that is still a tiny drop in the ocean of the world economy.”

“The entire world economy rests on the consumer; if he ever stops spending money he doesn't have on things he doesn't need -- we're done for.”

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Author:Bill Bonner

“Even small cults are a serious cost on the world economy, to victims, their families, employers, friends, and credit-card companies.”

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Author:Keith Henson

“Most people are great at absorbing information. Guerrilla marketing is needed because it gives small businesses a delightfully unfair advantage: certainty in an uncertain world, economy in a high-priced world, simplicity in a complicated world, marketing awareness in a clueless world.”

“One thing I've learned from my short time trying to be a farmer is that our farmers have to be the bravest, most optimistic people in the world. To go back to the land year after year, after what nature throws at them and the world economy does to their income, takes a special kind of person.”

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Author:Sara Henderson

“You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.”

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Author:Wayne Swan

“It is impossible to understand history, international politics, the world economy, religions, philosophy, or ‘patterns of culture’ without taking geography into account.”

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Author:Kenneth C. Davis

“We escaped the last big bursting of a bubble - the dotcom bubble - with a relatively light U.S. recession. On that occasion, the world economy found its way back on track fairly quickly.”

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Author:Evan Davis

“In a perfect world we would bring corporate tax rates down to 25% or less so we can get competitive in the world economy. Ultimately, I would love to see a flat tax.”

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Author:Eric Cantor

“China has made important contribution to the world economy in terms of total economic output and trade, and the RMB has played a role in the world economic development. But making the RMB an international currency will be a fairly long process.”

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Author:Hu Jintao

“The world economy today is recovering slowly, and there are still some destabilising factors and uncertainties. The underlying impact of the international financial crisis is far from over.”

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Author:Hu Jintao

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