Quotes of: Economic-life Keyword

He had been haunted his whole life by a mild case of claustrophobia—the vestige of a childhood incident he had never quite overcome. Langdon’s aversion to closed spaces was by no means debilitating, but it had always frustrated him. It manifested...

Angels & Demons

Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories. The first - the story of our quest for sexual love - is well known and well charted, its vagaries form the staple of music and literature, it is socially accepted and celebrated....

Status Anxiety

Each instinct and passion of man is amoral; it is only the abuse of these passions that makes them wrong. There is nothing wrong about hunger, but there is something wrong about gluttony; there is no sin in thirst, but there is a sin in drunkenness; ...

Three to Get Married

The test of a progressive policy is not private but public, not just rising income and consumption for individuals, but widening the opportunities and what Amartya Sen calls the 'capabilities' of all through collective action. But that means, it must...

Eric J. Hobsbawm

The increase in value of the world of things is directly proportional to the decrease in value of the human world.

Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844/The Communist Manifesto

Be careful who you trust, the devil was once an angel.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

If you are bitter, that means they got the best of you. If they got the best of you, that means they won.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

Never worry about what you can't control...Focus on what you can.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

We're taught by repetition but great innovators need to be great at doing the different.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

Never put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

Kill your enemies with success and bury them with a smile.... Never fails.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

A great leader has brains, vision, guts, values ... and a heart.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

History used to be written by the winners. Now it is distorted and distributed by the winners' media.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

Your place in history depends on what you do for others, not what others do for you.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

In the end, we only regret the chances we didn't take.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

True Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

It's never better to make somebody poorer, even if they're rich.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

You will never solve problems unless you face them head on.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

Your strategy for success must constantly move, change, and evolve.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

Just as an individual's ability to delay gratification at a young age is a powerful predictor of future academic and professional achievement, discipline is also central to the long-run economic health of nations.

Peter Blair Henry