Quotes of: Economic-opportunities Keyword

It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.

Barry Commoner

The scientific effort to inform the public about landslide risks often runs head-on into powerful economic interests.

Bill Dedman

In many cases, water stress is more about politics, economics, behaviour and governance than absolute water scarcity. Better planning is needed, to allocate water where societal need is greatest, and to allow trade-offs between alternative uses.

Ian Goldin

No one wants to die, and no one wants to die poor. These are the two fundamental truths that transcend culture, they transcend politics, they transcend economic cycles.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.

Vaclav Klaus

The communist model does not work economically, we all realised that, but the capitalist model in the modern world also looks to be unsustainable.

Arsene Wenger

I view the work I've done related to statistics and economics as, roughly speaking, how to do something without having to do everything.

Lars Peter Hansen

The U.N. acts as the world's conscience, and over eighty-five percent of the work that is done by the United Nations is in the social, economic, educational and cultural fields.

Shirley Temple

All women, regardless of her economic status or racial background, have a right to vote, and no politician or regressive law should prevent her from doing so.

Al Sharpton

Instead of marginalizing women, Congress must get to work on policies that can foster job creation and fuel economic growth.

Kirsten Gillibrand

My top priority for 2012 will be to make a renewed push for women's economic empowerment and political participation.

Michelle Bachelet

Fair treatment in the work force is no longer exclusively a labor issue, nor is it a women's issue - it is a fundamental economic issue.

Madeleine M. Kunin

Well, as a general remark, I would say that I was discouraged by the physical and economic conditions in continental Europe after the war.

David K. E. Bruce

This is perhaps as good a place as any to point out that what distinguishes many reformers from those who cannot accept their proposals is not their greater philanthropy, but their greater impatience. The question is not whether we wish to see everyb...

Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics

All varieties of the producers' policy are advocated on the ground of their alleged ability to raise the party members' standard of living. Protectionism and economic self-sufficiency, labor union pressure and compulsion, labor legislation, minimum w...

Human Action: A Treatise on Economics

An essential pedagogic step here is to relegate the teaching of mathematical methods in economics to mathematics departments. Any mathematical training in economics, if it occurs at all, should come after students have at the very least completed cou...

Adbusters #84 Pop Nihilism

Opportunity's precious, and time is a sword.

The Dermis Probe

Stay cool, and wait for opportunity.

Good To Be God

I am very lucky to have the opportunity to travel to so many amazing destinations for work!

Brad Goreski

The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.

Sam Elliott

From loss breeds new opportunity

Amelia