Douglass North Quotes
The factors we have listed (innovation, economies of scale, education, capital accumulation, etc.) are not causes of growth; they are growth.
Douglass North
Quotes to Explore
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There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.
Wayne Dyer
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God is a freaking character, with enough foibles, tantrums, and paradoxical behaviors to supply a thousand screenplays. But who do you cast?
Walter Kirn
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
Manoj Bhargava
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You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.
Eddie Vedder
Pearl Jam
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People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.
L. Neil Smith
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I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
Olivia Wilde
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The president's poking fun at himself over what goes down. I thought it was a good-natured performance. It made him look good. But he certainly doesn't disguise the record on weapons of mass destruction. And you feel like saying to people, Just get over it.
Brit Hume
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I'm a school teacher, and later on, well past my formal education, I became very interested in science.
Bernard Beckett
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Walmart's period of explosive growth coincided with decades of wage stagnation and deindustrialization. By applying relentless downward pressure on prices and wages, the company came to dominate both consumer spending and employment in small towns and rural areas across the middle of the country.
George Packer
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It is now clear that the costly regulatory burdens imposed by this legislation absolutely outweigh its benefits. The PCAOB and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act raise unconstitutional barriers to needed liquidity, discourage entrepreneurship and innovation, and hinder U.S. competitiveness by denying access to needed capital. Further, the high cost of compliance that disproportionately affects smaller public companies is having long-term, exponential negative implications for our economy.
Mallory Factor
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The factors we have listed (innovation, economies of scale, education, capital accumulation, etc.) are not causes of growth; they are growth.
Douglass North
