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

• The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • May
  • Power
  • Change

• 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
  • Me
  • Know
  • 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

• Many of our problems are home-grown. Gordon Brown regularly advised the rest of the world to follow his British model of growth. But the model was flawed. It led to the highest level of household debt in relation to income in the world.

  

  Vince Cable
  • World
  • Home
  • Rest

• 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

• Infrastructure investment can boost economic growth and employment, and, in fact, it is fiscally neutral.

  

  Lou Jiwei
  • 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

• Assuming normal winter weather, we currently anticipate the coal markets to remain difficult through 2015; while we always strive to operate a full capacity in this environment, it may be necessary to delay our production growth to match the market.

  

  Joe Craft
  • May
  • Environment
  • Growth

• One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded.

  

  Danny Boyle
  • City
  • Growth

• Judging the mistakes of strangers is an easy thing to do - and it feels pretty good.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Mistakes
  • Judging
  • Strangers

• 'The Good Guy' is a totally differently-looking New York than 'How To Make It' portrays. 'The Good Guy' is all about Wall Street and that culture, which 'How To Make It' touches on, but 'How To Make It' also is downtown, Lower East Side loft parties, cool clubs, Brooklyn and that world.

  

  Bryan Greenberg
  • World
  • Good
  • Guy

• 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