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Joan Robinson

"Capitalism with near-full employment was an impressive spectacle. But a growth in wealth is not at all the same thing as reducing poverty. A universal paean was raised in praise of growth. Growth was going to solve all problems. No need to bother about poverty. Growth will lift up the bottom and poverty will disappear without any need to pay attention to it. The economists, who should have known better, fell in with the same cry."

Source : Joan Robinson (2014). “Contributions to Modern Economics”, p.9, Academic Press

Joan Robinson

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“I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope.”
“People do not look at the music business as an entrepreneur business at all times, but everything in this business is entrepreneurship. It's one thing to have the money and not have the knowledge. A lot of times people have great ideas, but don't have a plan. The whole thing about being an entrepreneur is you have to have a plan.”
“I was 17, certainly by the time I was 19, I knew that show business was where I was going to end up, and I had my sights on being a director.”
“Normally I would not recommend a book that tells you how to make money in the stock market. Most of these books are aimed at gullible folk, and they usually make much more money for their authors than they do for the investing public.”

Source : "Gavyn Davies does the maths". www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2006.
“Well, I knew I wanted to be an actor, and I didn't necessarily need or want to be famous or a celebrity actor.”
“From infancy onward, children are the most fantastic learners in the world.”
“Actresses get stupid questions asked of them all the time, like, â€˜How do you stay sexy?â€™ or â€˜Whatâ€™s your sexiest quality?â€™ All these ridiculous things you would never ask a man.”
“My guys look for me to step up in that magnitude and I take the challenge every time. Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose, but you've got to have a guy that will take those shots and deal with the consequences.”

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