Quotes about "Resilience & Adversity"

You need some inequality to grow... but extreme inequality is not only useless but can be harmful to growth because it reduces mobility and can lead to political capture of our democratic institutions. ”

When inequality gets too extreme, then it becomes useless for growth, and it can even become bad because it tends to lead to high perpetuation of inequality over time and low mobility. ”

I don't pretend that I can predict the future value of the growth rate or rate of return. ”

I do hope to bring Jane Whitefield back before too long. ”

You have very accurately described the difficulty of presenting my books on film: many of my characters are alone most of the time, and when they do talk, what they say is mostly lies. That can make for a pretty confusing film. ”

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. ”

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. ”

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. ”

Historians are going to look back on rising China and say America, at least under the Bush years, did not get that wrong. ”

We live in a world of crisis, of challenge, and... it's in our galleries that we can unpack the civilizations that we're seeing the current manifestations of. ”