James Stone famous quotes

Other than my marriage, the decision to get a Ph.D. was probably the best decision of my life.
-- James Stone

#Decision

On inequality, I contend that far too much of the nation's wealth and income is gravitating to too few. This undermines the democracy we all cherish and the overall social cohesion necessary to maintain our wonderfully successful society.
-- James Stone

#Successful #Democracy #Wealth

College has become unaffordable for most of the kids who attend, and, while most of the population won't ever graduate from college, our high schools don't prepare students for that reality by providing vocational and occupational training.
-- James Stone

#School #Kids #Reality

Some major problems can be solved by our political process and our leaders. Others can be solved only when there is popular demand and insistence and politicians feel at risk of unemployment if they ignore the groundswell.
-- James Stone

#Leader #Political #Risk

Free enterprise democracy has proven the best system by far for maximizing freedom, prosperity, and happiness. Dictatorship, Soviet style communism, and hereditary aristocracy have proven about the worst environments for people to achieve all three of these goals.
-- James Stone

#People #Goal #Style

Our educational system just doesn't work as well as it should any more. 70% of people are never going to go to college, and we don't give them the vocational or occupational training they need before we throw them into a work force where too often they find they don't fit. The 30% that do go to college find themselves graduating with debts that may cripple them for years.
-- James Stone

#Educational #College #People

Probably 90 percent of our life decisions are powered by the twin engines of inertia and laziness.

I believe that decisions about the timing and manner of death belong to the individual as a human right. I believe it is wrong to withhold medical methods of terminating life painlessly and swiftly when an individual has a rational and clear-minded sustained wish to end his or her life.

Decisions are made by those who show up.

Decisions are made by those who show up. Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions.

Most of society's decision making for young people happens without young people, and that could not happen without adultcentrism.

Money coming in says I've made the right marketing decisions

You have to make sure that your assets and your back is protected before you make any big decisions.

Be brave and fearless to know that even if you do make a wrong decision, you're making it for a good reason.