80s Quote by Hugh Hefner

In a way, we're going backwards. In the early '80s, it was like all these huge strides, and everything was more free and easy.…

— Boy George

We entered the global market only in the end-'80s, and that was because imports became more liberal.

— Azim Premji

Beginning in 1981, when government policies began to undermine the liberal consensus of the previous generation, wealth began to diverge. It is more unevenly…

— Heather Cox Richardson

The global policy shift toward neo-liberalism that took place during the 1980s and 1990s was supposed, according to its proponents, to bring a convergence…

— Noreena Hertz

The 1970s were the height of social mobility. College was accessible. My grandfather was a poor immigrant who went to a public school in…

— Lauren Greenfield

I think what's happened to America, in a cultural sense, is we stopped getting richer as a country in the early 1970s, but we…

— Porter Stansberry

The last 15 years we had one of the biggest economic booms. But I think a few bubbles have burst in a few countries.…

— Gavin Friday

Many bought into the idea that America could go from a technology-based, export-oriented powerhouse to a services-led, consumption-based economy - and somehow still expect…

— Jeffrey R. Immelt

People link the 80s to that very liberal theme, growing up in a very liberal world, having ideals or not having ideals. The 80s…

— Sam de Jong

Much of what we consider the American way of life is rooted in the period of remarkably broad, shared economic growth, from around 1900…

— Adam Davidson

Since the 70s and the 80s you see the rise of neoliberalism. The central dogma of neoliberalism was that most people are selfish. So,…

— Rutger Bregman

Back then, we could drive a mile from home and there was nothing. Now it's grown in every direction and is populated and modernized.…

— Matthew Sweet