Gross Domestic Product Quotes

“Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not all underdeveloped and developing countries look up to and aspire to someday be developed countries.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

“Entrepreneurship is, to most entrepreneurs, the art of using things such as the need for job creation as veils to hide the desire to make way more money than is needed.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Economics is a knack of managing unlimited demand with limited supply.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Nobody fails as often as an economist, a meteorologist, and a fortuneteller.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Statistics surpasses sentiments.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Economics qualifies the test of education but fails the test of emotions.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Economics is not as simple as philosophy and not as complex as mathematics.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“The efficient execution of industrial and administrative activities by the people promises an enduring economy for the province.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“An entrepreneur is more useful and valuable to the economy than an economist.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“An economist doesn't know how to make money, but he claims to know what to do with it once someone else makes money.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“An economy where even a few people cannot afford a snack, shelter, and survival is a failed economy.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Das Bruttosozialprodukt misst alles mit der Ausnahme der Dinge, die das Leben lebenswert machen.
- Robert F. Kennedy (1925-68)”
― Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

“Der Bankmanager, der ohne Rücksicht auf Verluste Hypotheken und Derivate unters Volk bringt, um sich einen Millionenbonus zu sichern, trägt mehr zum BIP bei als eine Schule voller Lehrer oder eine Fabrik voller Automechaniker. Wir leben in einer Welt, in der die Grundregel anscheinend lautet, dass wir umso weniger zum BIP beitragen, je wichtiger unsere Tätigkeit für die Gesellschaft ist, etwa wenn wir reinigen, pflegen, unterrichten.”
― Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

“Simon Kuznets warnte bereits vor achtzig Jahren: "Aus einer Messung des Nationaleinkommens kann kaum auf das Wohlergehen eines Landes geschlossen werden. (...) Wir müssen den Unterschied zwischen Quantität und Qualität des Wachstums, zwischen Kosten und Erträgen und zwischen kurz- und langfristigen Entwicklungen im Auge behalten. (...) Die Wachstumsziele, die wir uns stecken, sollten die Frage beantworten, von welchem Wachstum wir mehr wollen und wozu.”
― Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

“Our standard of progress was conceived for a different era with different problems. Our statistics no longer capture the shape of our economy. And this has consequences. Every era needs its own figures. In the eighteenth century, they concerned the size of the harvest. In the nineteenth century, the radius of the rail network, the number of factories, and the volume of coal mining. And in the twentieth century, industrial mass production within the boundaries of the nation-state.
But today it's no longer possible to express our prosperity in simple dollars, pounds, or euros. From healthcare to education, from journalism to finance, we're all still fixated on 'efficiency' and 'gains,' as though society were nothing but one big production line. But it's precisely in a service-based economy that simple quantitative targets fail... It's time for a new set of figures.”
― Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World