Best Geoff Mulgan Quotes
- As with products on supermarket shelves, the public has a right to know where their financial products and services come from. Financial
- Bangalore has become a centre for healthcare. Bangalore
- Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more. Anyone
- Cities simply don't have the powers they need to radically innovate in cutting obesity or the number of disaffected teenagers. Cities
- Courses can, and should, incorporate the excitement and fun of programming games, apps or even real digital devices. Apps
- Democracy isn't solely about polite conversations in parliaments. It needs to be continually refreshed with raw passions, anger and ideals. Anger
- Democratic nation states remain far more capable of managing the circuit of coercion, taxation and legitimation than any transnational bodies. Any
- Economies are complex beasts that need people to do an extraordinary range of tasks. Beast
- Everyone knows of great projects that were too dependent on a charismatic individual, or simply too expensive to be replicated. Charismatic
- Health is already a dominant sector in most societies and the one most guaranteed to grow. Dominant
- Huge sums are invested globally in medical research and development - and with good reason. Development
- I can think of nothing worse than a think-tank where everybody agreed. Agreed
- I didn't much like being in Parliament physically. I found it a bit depressing. It's very dark and heavy. I like being out and about. Bit
- In Britain, polls show large majorities in favour of mansion taxes and higher taxes on the finance sector. Britain
- Learning isn't something you should only do solo. Inspirational
- Societies advance through innovation every bit as much as economies do. Advance
- Spreading an idea is hard work. Hard
- The idea of entrepreneurship applies as much in politics, religion, society and the arts as it does in business. Applies
- The most dynamic cities have always been immersed in the critical innovations of their time. Been
- The most important innovators often don't need any technologies - just imagination and acute sensitivity to people's needs. Acute
- Science is, rightly, searching for drugs to arrest ageing or to slow the advance of dementia. But the evidence suggests that many of the most… Advance
- The smug complacency of technology adverts disguises a pretty mixed picture, with too many people not connected, too many passive users of technologies designed for… Action
- With a fractured sense of self, we come to depend on what people feed back to us - often mediated through social networks - not… Able
- A modest dose of self-love is entirely healthy - who would want to live in a world where everyone hated themselves? But taken too far,… Becomes
- Advisers who think that they are very clever while all around them are a bit thick, and that all the problems of the world would… Adviser