Best Jeffrey Sachs Quotes
- Soil mapping is one of the pillars to the challenge of sustainable development Challenge
- My concern is not that there are too many sweatshops, but that there are too few. Concern
- Without restoring an ethos of social responsibility, there can be no meaningful and sustained economic recovery. Economic
- We've taken the view that if the rest of the world would democratize and create market economies, that would spread the benefits of prosperity around… Benefits
- Unfortunately, the real focus in this country has not been on the rest of the world. It's been on our own issues and our own… Abroad
- Russia has gone through eight years of continuing economic pain. Continuing
- My colleagues and I took a stand in our work several years ago that we would not look for the magic bullet, because there is… Ago
- The idea that UN commitments should be followed by action is indeed a radical one, especially for the United States, where wilful neglect of its… Action
- Let the future say of our generation that we sent forth mighty currents of hope and that we worked together to heal the world. Currents
- The longer you wait, the less fun. If you wait until the bitter end, the whole economy can be destroyed. Bitter
- There is no economic imperative that will condemn us to deplete our vital resource base, but neither is there an invisible hand that will prevent… Base
- At the most basic level, the key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the… Basic
- Devaluations are never easy. Devaluations
- The basic idea was that if a country would put its economy as an integrated piece of the world system, that it would benefit from… Basic
- We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that… Adopted
- The truth of good economic doctoring is to know the general principles, and to really know the specifics. To understand the context, and also, to… Called
- The runs started in Thailand after the IMF intervened in such a dramatic way. Then the IMF came to Indonesia. Came
- The Russian drama began at the end of 1991, when the Soviet Union mercifully ended. Russia and 14 other new countries emerged from the ruins… Began
- There's a lot of strength in the U.S., but there's a lot of froth also. The froth will blow off. We're going to have to… Blow
- Business often does a good job supporting communities: the arts, universities, and scientific enterprises... But that philosophy has rarely reached poor countries. Even businesses that… Africa
- Deep down, if we really accept that their lives - African lives - are equal to ours, we would all be doing more to put… Accept
- The idea that the UN system could provide real leadership on the great development challenges will strain credulity in some quarters. Challenges
- We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We have a booming stock market in 1999. Will… Booming
- Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want. Economics
- The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood the twin sides of destruction and salvation. Their war aims… Aim