The longer you wait, the less fun. If you wait until the bitter end, the whole economy can be destroyed.

My concern is not that there are too many sweatshops, but that there are too few.

Let the future say of our generation that we sent forth mighty currents of hope and that we worked together to heal the world.

The runs started in Thailand after the IMF intervened in such a dramatic way. Then the IMF came to Indonesia.

I think the IMF helped to detonate the Indonesian crisis.

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 ladder of development.

Without restoring an ethos of social responsibility, there can be no meaningful and sustained economic recovery.

Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism.

Deep down, if we really accept that their lives - African lives - are equal to ours, we would all be doing more to put the fire out. Its an uncomfortable truth.

Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything else.

Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want.

Die Einsicht eines Menschen verleiht ihre Flügel keinem anderen.

Remember that reading these quotes will not change your life. These quotes only work to push you in the right direction. You are the only one who can change you.

The politicians are no prizes, but the people are even worse, they're so ill-informed. I never understand the pushback when I say people are stupid.

If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals.

I've taken advantage of the laws. And frankly, so has everybody else in my position.

[This] is very important to remember when reading or writing or talking or whatever: You are never, ever choosing whether to use symbols. You are choosing which symbols to use.

Many possible things were impossible before they were possible

Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.

Too much of this book knowledge just leads to doubts and confusion. You get too many doubts asking 'what is this?' and 'what is that?', and you waste a lot of time in this conflict.

Cowards die many times; a brave man dies but once.