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I think good private equity investors create a lot more economic value than they destroy. -- Bill Ackman
A lot of attention has been going to social values - abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues - but economic values are equally important. -- Robert Reich
I don't want to transform America. I want to restore to America the economic values of freedom and opportunity and limited government that has made us the powerhouse of the world. -- Mitt Romney
Years ago nobody was elected on the economic ticket. It was either the education platform, or it was health or it was other issues. It is only recently that economic values have superceded every other human value. -- Anita Roddick
Apart from the economic value, money does have high moral value. -- Amit Kalantri
Content has no economic value unless it's shared and it's acted on. -- Mark Schaefer
Already, China has undermined U.S. foreign policy in efforts to gain access to oil resources in Iran and Sudan. We simply cannot separate the political and economic values of oil. -- Jo Ann Emerson
There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all care-giving, and making that amount tax deductible. -- Gloria Steinem
Encouraging self-sufficiency must be a bedrock for our immigration policy, with the goal of reducing poverty, strengthening the family, and promoting our economic values. But Administration officials and their policies are working actively against this goal. -- Jeff Sessions
If we are to remain preeminent in transforming knowledge into economic value, America's system of higher education must remain the world's leader in generating scientific and technological breakthrough, and in meeting the challenge to educate workers. -- Alan Greenspan
We took special pride in the fact that climbing rocks and icefalls had no economic value in society...We were like a wild species living in the edges of an ecosystem - adaptable, resilient and tough. -- Yvon Chouinard
We all have an unknown ability, which will probably remain unknown forever. And yet that ability can become our ally. Since it's impossible to measure that ability or give it an economic value, it's never taken seriously. -- Paulo Coelho
Assess Bitcoins? All you can do is examine the trading patterns, which do not provide a real analysis of any underlying economic value. The economics of investments are not solely based on supply and demand, and that is all that goes into Bitcoin prices. -- Kurt Eichenwald
I think that the environmental movement is wisely moving away from a largely emotion-based argument for the spiritual or intrinsic value of Nature with a capital "N" and evolving toward a very hard-nosed case for the economic value of natural capital, ecosystem services, biodiversity, etc. -- Edward Norton
It's a topsy-turvy world in which a country can import the same amount of ice-cream, toilet paper and other goods to trading partners as it exports, and where top bankers are paid millions for destroying economic value, while hospital cleaners create value many times their pay -- Andrew Simms
It is inconceivable to me that an ethical relation to land can exist without love, respect, and admiration for land, and a high regard for its value. By value, I of course mean something far broader than mere economic value; I mean value in the philosophical sense. -- Aldo Leopold
Wages, investments, and home values are the three legs of the economic stool for most Americans. -- Mark McKinnon
Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously. -- Kailash Satyarthi
Mitt Romney not only believes in the values of economic freedom. His entire life has been committed to advancing it. -- Sher Valenzuela
Even though people are under economic pressure, they still want to support those brands with values that are compatible with their own. -- Howard Schultz
Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development. -- Anna Lindh
Although it's difficult, if not impossible, to put a dollar value on the numerous services nature provides, leaving them out of economic calculations means they are often ignored. -- David Suzuki
Those of us who lived under communism for most of our lives were looking toward the Western world because of its values, emphasis on democracy, individual liberties and freedom, and economic prosperity. -- Vaclav Klaus
When people align around shared political, social, economic or environmental values, and take collective action, thinking and behavior that compromises the lives of millions of people around the world can truly change. -- Simon Mainwaring
The Republic of Macedonia is being built on democratic ideals and values, not on ethnic groups. Those ideals and values include economic opportunities, language and educational opportunities, religious rights, and political processes. -- Boris Trajkovski
We can't stop talking about the importance of our values and our culture. We can't stop talking about them because the moral well-being of our people is directly linked to their economic well-being. -- Marco Rubio
I do not believe that the values which the Western democracies consider essential to civilization can survive in a world rent by the international anarchy of nationalism and the economic anarchy of competitive enterprise. -- Arthur Henderson
The crisis and recession have led to very low interest rates, it is true, but these events have also destroyed jobs, hamstrung economic growth and led to sharp declines in the values of many homes and businesses. -- Ben Bernanke
Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values. -- Abraham Maslow
From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power - a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase. -- Alex Campbell
Economic theory dictates that the value of a company is basically the present value of its future profits. To estimate Facebook's value through its future profits, we need to have a view on its user growth and how this will evolve in the next 10 to 50 years. -- Didier Sornette
I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value. -- Paul Dirac
The economic concept of value does not occur in antiquity . -- Karl Marx
Genuine [economic] value lies in the power to sustain or enrich life -- Lewis Mumford
Conservatives value economic liberty and moral security, while the liberal values economic security and moral liberty. -- Jonah Goldberg
No economic measure has more value for a nation than investing in a clean & sustainable low carbon future -- Phil Harding
The central element in the economic problem of money is the objective exchange-value of money, popularly called its purchasing power. -- Ludwig von Mises
Democracy is the absolute value that makes for human dignity, as well as the only road to sustained economic development and social justice. -- Kim Dae-jung
Economic systems are not value-free columns of numbers based on rules of reason, but ways of expressing what varying societies believe is important. -- Gloria Steinem
I think in American culture, we put value on economic success but tell people you don't have to be economically successful to be happy. -- John Hodgman
Including the value of natural resources and our social capital in national accounting is a vital step to achieve economic growth that is equitable and sustainable. -- Achim Steiner
To build a twenty-first-century economy, America must revive a nineteenth-century habit--investing in the common, national economic resources that enable every person and every firm to create wealth and value. -- William J. Clinton

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