Will Hutton quotes

Will Hutton quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Investment is not only volatile, it is the key motor of the economy's prosperity because it has a snowball effect.”
-- Will Hutton

Source : Will Hutton (2011). “The State We're In: (Revised Edition)”, p.242, Random House

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“The attempt to isolate economics from other disciplines-notably politics, history, philosophy, finance, constitutional theory and sociology-has fatally disabled its power to explain what is happening in the world.”
-- Will Hutton

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“Behind good brands lie stakeholder companies.”
-- Will Hutton

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“The great challenge of the twentieth century ... is to create a new financial architecture in which private decisions produce a less degenerate capitalism.”
-- Will Hutton

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“24.9 percent of American children live in poverty, while the proportions in Germany, France and Italy are 8.6, 7.4 and 10.5 percent. And once born on the wrong side of the tracks, Americans are more likely to stay there than their counterparts in Europe. Those born to better-off families are more likely to stay better off. America is developing an aristocracy of the rich and a serfdom of the poor - the inevitable result of a twenty-year erosion of its social contract.”
-- Will Hutton

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“People do make judgments of trust on appearance - in the real world and online.”
“Achievement results from work realizing ambition.”
“The year showed me beyond a doubt that everyone practices cafeteria religion... But the important lesson was this: there's nothing wrong with choosing. Cafeterias aren't bad per se... the key is in choosing the right dishes. You need to pick the nurturing ones (compassion), the healthy ones (love thy neighbor), not the bitter ones.”
“A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.”
“You know Nana, I searched and searched, but could never find the key that unlocked the way. And now that I've stopped looking, I've finally found it. Maybe the door will open for me.”
“I've always believed it's important to make the invisible visible. And valuing that which has been taken for granted is something that I've always instinctually known is the key to the kind of society I want to live in and raise my children in.”

Source : "'An incredible container for transformation'". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. May 9, 2014.
“Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won't put these futures back together. All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn't be enough to bring me back to zero.”
“We face the question whether a still higher "standard of living" is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free.”

Source : Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.7, Oxford University Press, USA
“I feel terrible that I once put too much emphasis on material prosperity.”
“When you realize that prosperity is your divine heritage, you should persist in claiming it.”

Source : Catherine Ponder (2016). “The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity”, p.189, Lulu.com

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