Peter Blair Henry Quotes

#1. It's probably indicative that I was destined for an academic career that I'm 6-5 and I lost the slam-dunk championship to somebody 5-8. I was a lot better at math.

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#2. I think that whether you're on the right or on the left as an economist or as a policy maker, every serious analyst I know agrees that at some point you have to deal with entitlements.

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#3. Economic growth creates jobs, and countries grow when they educate their people and pursue policies that encourage households to save, existing businesses to invest, and entrepreneurs to innovate and create new markets.

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#4. Business is one of the most powerful institutions on Earth for creating wealth and opportunity and helping to lift people out of poverty. When you think about it that way, then business is not separate from development policy.

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#5. Fear of foreign domination in India led the Janata Party, in the 1970s, to push for partial Indian ownership of all multinational firms within the country. The result was a spectacular pullback, by companies such as IBM and Coca-Cola, and a stagnant economy.

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#6. I'm generally slow to anger, quick to forgive, and I take in information before making decisions. So no matter how controversial the decision, my general demeanour is to put on white lab coat and gloves and look at the evidence, weigh the arguments and see what makes sense.

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#7. As an economist, I'm aware that life is full of trade offs.

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#8. In Jamaica, you're never very far away from people who don't have very much, and in Wilmette, pretty much everybody had a lot.

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#9. Because I come from a place like Jamaica, which is a small, open economy, I viscerally get the importance of the global economy.

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#10. A government decision that slashes spending at the wrong time and sends a weak economy into a tailspin can be just as undisciplined as one that unleashes a wasteful spending spree in an overheated environment.

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#11. Good economic policy requires not so much the bravado to implement drastic change as the strength and wisdom to make reasonable trade-offs over the many years it takes to transform a country's standard of living.

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#12. Just as an individual's ability to delay gratification at a young age is a powerful predictor of future academic and professional achievement, discipline is also central to the long-run economic health of nations.

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#13. Disciplined governments do not engage in the economic equivalent of binge eating followed by crash dieting.

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#14. I think my wife would take objection to any characterization of me as perfect.

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#15. You can actually make a lot of money and do a lot of good in the world. I don't see those things as being in opposition to one another. I never have.

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