Very few if any first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school.

What today's business reality makes clear is that brands cannot survive in a society that is failing economically socially ethically and morally.

A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today's global economy.

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.

Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society.

There is no doubt that America remains the premier political economic military power in the world and I both expect and count on it remaining so because I think that's certainly in our best interest but also the best interests of the world.

One of the things that people don't realize is that that natural beauty those recreational forests they have an economic development impact for the state as well.

I believe that history has shape order and meaning that exceptional men as much as economic forces produce change and that passe abstractions like beauty nobility and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.

During the 80s and 90s we all became consumed with ourselves. In the 21st century we've come back to simpler times. People are struggling economically and this has forced them to scale back the material aspects of their lives and realise the beauty of finding the simple joy in being with the people we love.

The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

Despite the amazing diversity we're blessed with in this country schools are still in large part segregated because of economic disparity. Sports are one of the few areas where kids are really given the opportunity to interact with those of different races and religions.

In the U.S. alone weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010.

Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

To write a story about New York that only deals with people in your age and socioeconomic bracket that feels dishonest to me. So much of New York comes from everyone bumping into each other.