Quotes About Development

I watch a lot of players. Guys like Kenneth Faried, his motor. I'm trying to take that and put that into my game.

My goal is for General Motors to lead in safe autonomous driving.

Style and image - it's what Motown is about. They had a charm school led by Maxine Powell. There was literally an artists' development department.

I have a motto: Work to become, not to acquire.

the railroad and the steamship affected not only industry and commerce, but also the lives of millions of ordinary people.

Since all countries around the world began poor, what requires an explanation is not why there is poverty but how some countries rose out of poverty to become prosperous.

En la China del siglo XXI se utiliza siete veces más energía que la que se emplea en Japón para producir productos del mismo valor. En este caso, las diferencias gigantescas en cuanto a la eficiencia también han significado diferencias gigantescas en el estándar de vida de millones de seres humanos.

In understanding Black Africa, geography is more important than history. Fernand Braudel

El hecho de que el trabajo sea más barato en Dubái que en Japón no es simplemente una casualidad. El trabajo es más productivo en los países más ricos. Ésa es una de las razones por las que estos países son más prósperos en general. La venta de equipamiento usado de países ricos a países pobres puede ser una manera eficiente de manejar la situación para ambos tipos de países.

not one private bank was opened in Dublin in the quarter century before 1793.

Capital tends to be scarcer and therefore more expensive in poor countries, while labor tends to be more abundant and therefore cheaper. Poor countries tend to save on the most expensive factor, in the same way that rich countries save on a different factor that is more expensive and scarce there, namely labor. In rich countries, it is capital that is more abundant and cheaper, while labor is scarcer and more expensive.

Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.

what a rich book might be made about buds and, perhaps, sprouts!

Invention is the mother of necessity.

The institution of a leisure class is found in its best development at the higher stages of the barbarian culture; as, for instance, in feudal Europe or feudal Japan.

THE INSTITUTION of a leisure class is found in its best development at the higher stages of the barbarian culture; as, for instance, in feudal Europe or feudal Japan. In such communities the distinction between classes is very rigorously observed; and the feature of most striking economic significance in these class differences is the distinction maintained between the employments proper to the several classes.

For the love of gain would reconcile the weaker to the dominion of the stronger, and the possession of capital enabled the more powerful to reduce the smaller towns to subjection. And it was at a somewhat later stage of this development that they went on the expedition against Troy.

Indeed this was the greatest movement yet known in history

The greatest thing about tomorrow is, I will be better than I am today. And that's how I look at my life. I will be a better golfer, I will be a better person, I will be a better father, I will be a better husband, I will be a better friend. That's the beauty of tomorrow.

There's always stuff to work on. You're never there.

No matter how good you get you can always get better, and that's the exciting part

We still don't have a good word to describe what is missing in Cameroon, indeed in poor countries across the world. But we are starting to understand what it is. Some people call it 'social capital, or maybe 'trust'. Others call it 'the rule of law', or 'institutions'. But these are just labels. The problem is that Cameroon, like other poor countries, is a topsy-turvy world in which it's in most people's interest to take action that directly or indirectly damages everyone else.

The question is wether any environmental catastrophe, even severe climate change, could possibly inflict the same terrible human cost as keeping 3 or 4 billion people in poverty. To ask that question is to answer it.

The United Nations, for example, has embraced a series of ambitious "Sustainable Development Goals" for 2030. But development experts are starting to call attention to a problem: we often don't have the data we would need to figure out whether those goals have been met.