Productivity Quote by Richard Kluger

“One result of the Bolshevik conquest of half of Western Europe is that they have reduced the scale of living in those countries to…

— Ladislas Farago

...Coca-Cola and fries, the wafer and wine of the Western religion of commerce.

— Tad Williams

John D. Rockefeller was certainly the first to create a consumer product that was sold literally throughout the entire world. Those blue 5-gallon cans…

— Charles R. Morris

There was almost a universal acceptance of unhealthy conditions. Sulfur dioxide in smokestack emissions were the price, or smell, of prosperity,

— Denis Hayes

For decades, Big Oil ravaged our environment. They knew what they were peddling was lethal, but they didn't care. They used the classical Big…

— Bill de Blasio

The Soviet Union and its empire disappeared in large part because its smokestack economy could no longer keep up with the technological progress of…

— John Mearsheimer

In the Soviet Union, no industry went under until they all did.

— P. J. O'Rourke

This may surprise you, but there were a large number of valuable buys during the Depression.

— Irving Kahn

Listen, were losing so much manufacturing, all over the United States.

— Tim Ryan

Time and again-from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the events of 9/11 to the onset of the Arab Spring-events have caught the…

— Andrew Bacevich

“The Nobel Prize–winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, who was the chief economist of the World Bank at the time, called the food riots in Indonesia…

— David Cay Johnston

Oil and gas was an up-and-down business, at best.

— Philip Anschutz