- Assured
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- Nov 07, 2020
People Quotes
Quotes about people, privacy, and human nature.
This page collects quotes touching on people in different senses - novelists describing how characters take on independent vitality, and technologists warning how easily people's movements and data can be tracked. It's a broader mix than a single theme, much like Like Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jobs are the main channel through which people share in - or are left out of - economic growth.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sustainable production and consumption matter immensely to the people I meet every day as head of the International Trade Centre, which works with small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to help them boost growth and job creation by improving their competitiveness and connecting to international markets.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Creating large numbers of decent jobs for young people is critical for achieving overall development objectives, from poverty reduction to better health and education.
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020
Entrepreneurship is one of the most important drivers for job creation. Moreover, social entrepreneurship offers not only a path for young people to transform their own lives, but also a way to empower others.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Full social and political engagement is impossible without economic empowerment, a point that is as true for women as it is for young people of either gender.
- Batter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without action to de-carbonize our economies, unchecked climate change threatens to batter lives and economies around the world, hitting the poorest people hardest.
- Business Leaders
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people - including business leaders - want a healthy future for their children.
- Economic Theory
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact is that during the post-1989 heyday of globalization optimism, political and business elites did not think enough about the prospect - plainly predicted in economic theory - that trade would harm some people even while leaving society as a whole better off. The result was overpromised benefits and inadequate adjustment plans.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
We continue to focus on actually solving problems that real people have and not being distracted by what power users want.
- Nov 07, 2020
As much as we can, we want to prevent people from having to think about how to keep and share their stuff.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Too much of Indian writing in English, it seemed to me, consisted of middle-class people writing about other middle-class people - and a small slice of life being passed off as an authentic portrait of the country.
- Research
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was writing 'The White Tiger' I lived in a building pretty much exactly like the one I described in this novel, and the people in the book are the people I lived with back then. So I didn't have to do much research to find them.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Indians mock their corrupt politicians relentlessly, but they regard their honest politicians with silent suspicion. The first thing they do when they hear of a supposedly 'clean' politician is to grin. It is a cliche that honest politicians in India tend to have dishonest sons, who collect money from people seeking an audience with Dad.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like most people who live in India, I complain about corruption, but know that I can live with corrupt men. It is the honest ones I secretly worry about.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020