Tony Blair Quotes

Examine the legacy that we inherited and what we did. We had boom-and-bust economics and a doubled national debt.

Tony Blair

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• I took English courses in college, but I don't have an English degree. I have a degree in economics.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • College
  • English
  • Economics

• People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they're like sausages: you don't know what they really are until you cut into them.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • People
  • Know
  • Economics

• Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Story
  • Economics
  • Narrative

• You have to know one big thing and stick with it. The leaders who had one very big idea and one very big commitment. This permitted them to create something. Those are the ones who leave a legacy.

  

  Irving Kristol
  • Know
  • Commitment
  • Legacy

• And so I'm saying that, yes, colonialism was terrible, and I describe it as a legacy of wars, but we ought to be moving away from that by now.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Moving
  • Legacy
  • Saying

• As philanthropists, the most powerful legacy we can create is one that keeps on giving - through our children.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Children
  • Giving
  • Powerful

• I work on the boundary between economics and statistics in this field called econometrics. Part of my interest is understanding how you use statistics in productive ways to analyze dynamic economic models.

  

  Lars Peter Hansen
  • Work
  • Understanding
  • Economics

• There's not a single country that actually approaches economics in a pure, free market, capitalist way. I like the free market - but it very much exists only in textbooks. If I had a choice, and we could live in a very pure world, I would be a supporter of the free markets.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • World
  • Live
  • Country

• The legacy of the Freddie Gray unrest? I think that remains to be determined.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Think
  • Legacy
  • Determined

• It's not about revenues: The fundamental economics in digital business is scale and margins. The top line has become the bottom line.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Business
  • Economics
  • Digital

• I'm not having to go outside and switch the role model hat on. It's me, and it's important for me to leave that legacy to help inspire younger players because I didn't have a role model growing up.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Up
  • Important
  • Help

• I have the legacy of my father and his nocturnal automatic waking up. But I like those periods. I immediately have a different vision of humanity and my life.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Life
  • Up
  • Different

• A lot of my colleagues have been people with broad interests in economics, not just narrowly focused interests.

  

  Lars Peter Hansen
  • People
  • Just
  • Economics

• The real way I became a model is I won a genetic lottery, and I became the recipient of a legacy.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Real
  • Model
  • Legacy

• My teaching is my legacy.

  

  Anderson Silva
  • Legacy

• When I'm done my mixed martial arts career, the only people who are gonna remember me and respect what I did and how I lived my life are my two children. That's my legacy, ladies and gentlemen.

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • People
  • Life
  • Children

• I had been on another procedural show, 'Cold Case,' for seven years, and I certainly respected the legacy of 'Law & Order,' even though I had only seen a handful of episodes. Being a dad meant the reality was that I probably knew more about Dora and Diego. But I saw the show with fresh eyes, and I wasn't coming in with a bunch of baggage.

  

  Danny Pino
  • Reality
  • Law
  • Dad

• The prescience of the founding fathers continues to astonish me. They were freedom fighters. They made America. They gave us this magical country. They also were slaveowners - which is confusing to their legacy. How could such brilliant men have only secured freedom for themselves, but not their wives or their slaves?

  

  Andy Dunn
  • Men
  • Country
  • America

• If my life is motivated by my ambition to leave a legacy, what I'll probably leave as a legacy is ambition. But if my life is motivated by the power of the Spirit in me, if I live with the awareness of the indwelling Christ, if I allow His presence to guide my actions, to guide my motives, those sort of things. That's the only time I think we really leave a great legacy.

  

  Rich Mullins
  • Action
  • Spirit
  • Ambition

• I was never really interested in an operatic post, but I took on the Bastille because it seemed a unique opportunity to build an opera ensemble from scratch, and to deal with all the disciplines that go into opera - the music, the staging and the singing - in an interrelated way.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Opportunity
  • Singing

• When you're directing, you see your ideas. You see them created right in front of you on the monitor and the sound stage. You get that experience all over again when you get into the editing room and you start playing with it.

  

  Christopher Gorham
  • Experience

• Our communications reflect in our countenance. Therefore, we must be careful not only what we communicate, but also how we do so. Souls can be strengthened or shattered by the message and the manner in which we communicate.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Message
  • Reflect
  • Be Careful

• I think when you really adore something, and you've grown up with it, you almost don't want to be part of it. I want to enjoy it as a fan and don't want to ruin the magic.

  

  Jane Goldman
  • Up
  • Magic

• Examine the legacy that we inherited and what we did. We had boom-and-bust economics and a doubled national debt.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Legacy
  • Economics