Charles Hugh Smith Quotes

So now that the illusion of infinite growth is being exposed, the corresponding ballooning entitlements that enticed the larger public to become complicit in the illusion are becoming unglued.

Charles Hugh Smith

• Growth
• Illusion
• Becoming
• Infinite
• Exposed
• Entitlement
• Corresponding

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• The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain's long-standing weaknesses in investment and productivity, particularly skills. Instead, there has been a binge of debt-financed consumer spending.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Long
  • Growth
  • Overcoming

• Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Life
  • Energy
  • Quality

• Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Growth
  • Innovation
  • Economic

• By killing transparency and competition, crony capitalism is harmful to free enterprise, opportunity, and economic growth. And by substituting special interests for the public interest, it is harmful to democratic expression.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Free
  • Opportunity
  • Growth

• I don't know that you can put a label on growth. I'm just me.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Know
  • Me
  • Growth

• My priority will continue to be that we maintain the optimal balance to be able to invest in education and infrastructure while encouraging business growth.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Business
  • Education
  • Growth

• After becoming an actor, it's the privacy that I miss.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Actor
  • Becoming
  • Privacy

• I believe growth should be constant, sustained and inclusive. It's only meaningful if these three things are there. Otherwise they're just economic figures.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Believe
  • Growth
  • Meaningful

• You campaigned against rich people and you got enough envy whipped up in the country and you're gonna get 'em. You're gonna stick it to those rich people. But guess what? You may not get anymore revenue. You may not get anymore economic growth. But you can say, 'I stuck it to the rich people.'

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• I am afraid of privilege, of ease, of entitlement.

  

  Tan Le
  • Afraid
  • Privilege
  • Ease

• Growth and progress are related, for there is no resting place for an enterprise in a competitive economy.

  

  Alfred P. Sloan
  • Growth
  • Progress

• In order to spur economic growth we need to put the brakes on out of control spending, lower Ohioans tax burden and create a most efficient and effective government.

  

  Kenneth Blackwell
  • Control
  • Growth

• We move the cows every day to a new spot which allows the grass time to recuperate and go through its what I call 'the teenage growth spurt.'

  

  Joel Salatin
  • Time
  • Growth

• You're going to pull out your phone and try to use whatever is the most appropriate app on your iPhone or your Android device. Yelp saw that very early on. And when we launched the mobile product, we saw immediate growth, and we were stunned.

  

  Max Levchin
  • Growth

• I will be the government of increasing economic growth and creating jobs. Take it from me that that's the main issue.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • Growth

• Growth requires risk-taking. If you want to dampen risk and make sure you never have a problem, you do so, but that also will have an effect on growth. This is a decision that doesn't necessarily belong to financial institutions. It belongs to regulators and legislators who represent the body politic.

  

  Lloyd Blankfein
  • Decision
  • Risk
  • Growth

• The U.K. is outward-looking, trade-oriented, growth-oriented, and we do not have enough of that storyline, that tradition, that culture within the European Union.

  

  Mark Rutte
  • Culture
  • Growth

• Cancer is a growth hormone for empathy, and empathy makes us useful to each other in ways we were not, could not have been, before.

  

  Kelly Corrigan
  • Growth
  • Cancer
  • Empathy

• A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

  

  Pearl S. Buck
  • Good
  • Marriage
  • Growth

• There are several states that move from Karl Marx-like policies to Adam Smith-like policies and back again in a weekend. So for the states with huge volatility in their income tax policies over time, the differences in growth rates in those periods are really amazingly consistent with tax rates really mattering.

  

  Arthur Laffer
  • Time
  • Growth
  • Weekend

• You go from these high hopes when you're writing to just a desperate want of not making a complete fool of yourself by the end of it.

  

  Rian Johnson
  • Writing
  • Desperate

• When your heart speaks to you about what you need to do to sustain life on this planet, listen to it, make a difference, and be an inspiration for generations to come. Be inspired by people like Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Christopher Reeve, Albert Schweitzer, Helen Keller, and many others.

  

  Bernie Siegel
  • People
  • Life
  • Heart

• Once, in an interview with 'V' magazine, I said that I preferred Fitzgerald to Hemingway. I think that Hemingway is an amazing writer, but by being related to him, I had it in my head that I had to like him.

  

  Dree Hemingway
  • Amazing

• So now that the illusion of infinite growth is being exposed, the corresponding ballooning entitlements that enticed the larger public to become complicit in the illusion are becoming unglued.

  

  Charles Hugh Smith
  • Growth
  • Illusion
  • Becoming