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David Korten

"As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue."

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Donna Grant

"To make dollars from cents you have to have sense."

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Donna Grant

"A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it."

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Donna Grant

"Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth."

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Donna Grant

"The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty."

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Donna Grant

"Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them."

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Donna Grant

"To understand someone, find out how he spends his money."

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Donna Grant

"Egoism and Money [Goddess of wealth; Lakshmi] are very much at odds [have great enmity]. There should be just enough egoism to accomplish one's work. Beyond that, any expanded egoism and money have great enmity. Money (Lakshmi) stays away from it."

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Donna Grant

"Money cannot buy you love. But it sure can buy you things that some people will love you for having."

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Donna Grant

"When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing," it's the money."

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Donna Grant

"If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them."

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David Korten
"The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system."

Defence

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David Korten
"If you look internationally over the last 50 years there have been improvements in the third world, but in the last 20 years the reverse has happened, with debt crises and increased poverty."

Debt

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David Korten
"More humane societies are usually smaller, like the Scandinavian countries and Holland, where it is much easier to reach consensus and cooperation."

Society

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David Korten
"The EU will face problems similar to the US: an increasing gap between the citizens and decision makers in Brussels and a perceived or even real lack of democracy."

Decision-Making

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David Korten
"And each of these perspectives comes to the same conclusion, which is that our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics."

Control

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David Korten
"But we can also take the radical view that the test of an economy has to do with the extent to which it is providing everybody with a decent means of living."

Economy

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David Korten
"So, there is enormous instability in the global economy with a shift of winners and losers."

Economy

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David Korten
"Moreover, statistics can be deceiving: the growth of jobs in the US in the 90s was due to many part-time jobs, with no benefits and generally low pay."

Growth

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David Korten
"As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue."

Money

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David Korten
"Global competition is about winners and losers."

Competition

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