For most Americans, economic growth is a spectator sport.

The opportunity cost of an unlived dream is not only that dream, but also the dreams the dream was meant to inspire.

Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.

India’s rigid social structure limits intergenerational economic mobility and fosters acceptance of vast wealth disparities.

Fiscal decentralisation does not lead to higher economic growth because economic growth is much more driven by factors other than taxes and spending, e.g. increases in technological progress and improved human capital.

The most staggering linguistic turnabout for me is the one that equates green economy with ‘sustained economic growth.’

On the international political landscape, there is better understanding of Pakistan’s political economic and strategic issues. We aspire to promote peace and harmony with the region.

As Minister of Foreign Affairs. I will work on deepening Haiti’s links with its traditional partners from the North and the South, while exploring all the opportunities for economic, cultural, scientific and technological cooperation that...

How do you think we smart we realy are?If the whole world, economic, and everything around us, is based on one thing.If you push a green button, you’ll get banana.Now, you have only one button...

Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well.

Every country in Europe needs immigrants for its economic survival.

The only people who steal are thieves, and that’s a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if...

Disruption to the flow of oil through the Straits of Hormuz would threaten regional and global economic growth. Any attempt by Iran to close the Straits would be illegal and unsuccessful.

Australia has an economic interest in ensuring our cities have 21st century urban rail transport to reduce traffic congestion.

Without economic development, any potential for political openness and freedom will be questionable.

People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction. And all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!

During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history.

The 2010 global gender gap report by the World Economic Forum shows that countries with better gender equality have faster-growing, more competitive economies.

China should be another United States from an economic standpoint. Beijing should be another Silicon Valley.

In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.

I’m against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage.

We have seen economic growth. But we have not seen earnings growth.

We need to keep investing in economic and homeland security. We need to bank on the right kind of economic development. We need to embrace opportunities, but with the right kind of safeguards.

Priceless is economic illusion.Costless is an economical trick.

Much of what we consider the American way of life is rooted in the period of remarkably broad, shared economic growth, from around 1900 to about 1978.

For me, there will be no enemies but unemployment, the deficit, excessive debt, economic stagnation and anything else that keeps our country in these critical circumstances.

It’s not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.

Well we’re waiting here in Allentown,For the Pennsylvania we never found,For the promises our teachers gave,If we worked hard,If we behaved…So the graduations hang on the wall,But they never really helped us at all,No they...

It’s true across the U.K. that those who had least to do with causing the economic crisis are carrying the heaviest burden. That’s unacceptable.

The realization of a sustainable economic development strategy for Maine’s Native American communities has always been a priority and a critical element of my administration’s overall economic development strategy.

I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.

My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy.

We’re living through the twilight of American economic dominance.

I think there will be a 200-story skyscraper someday. However, it will require a developer who will not think in conventional terms and for whom economic restraints won’t apply.

We do not have a budget support. We are now fully independent in terms of requirements, but we still have a need for development assistance separate from the budget. So all the economic aid we...

Growth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world.

Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.

Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.

Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn’t billions of dollars people needed right away.

There are many forms of writing that are common, but also very formulaic, such as annual reports or economic studies. In those areas, people would probably be relieved not to have to write those kinds...

Over the years there also has been a transitional shift of labour legislations being exclusively employee oriented to advanced socio-economic lex of harmonious construction, emphasizing on the overall development of the economy builders (work-force) of...

It’s a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth.

Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 – Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.

He became convinced that ordinary commercial financing could be done for a service charge plus an insurance fee amounting to much less that the current rates of interest charged by banks, whose rates were based...

You will miss a normal life while living a successful life, but not as much as the craving for a successful life while you were living a normal life.

And judging what is appropriate or not appropriate for a country, I think it is important in particular in judging what is the appropriate economic policy framework, one should take into account the overall political...

I do not believe you can have infinite population or economic growth in a finite world. We are living on the shoulders of some awesome geometric curves.

If everyone in America started mailing empty boxes, we could boost productivity, profitability, and employment. Think like a politician.

This Constitution does not reflect the thoughts, hopes and aspirations of ordinary people. It does nothing for jobs or economic growth and widens further still the democratic deficit.

It is the potential for economic growth that provides the basis for the development of countries, for bringing to people essential goods and services, such as water to drink and facilities for healthcare.