"We face a dilemma because although everybody is better off than they've ever been at any time in our history, we've also got the biggest gap between the rich and the poor that we've ever had, and we've potentially got a planet which is going to go bust any day."

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Source : "Sir Stuart Rose on the changing role of business leaders". www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2012.

Stuart Rose

#Gaps Quotes #Faces Quotes #Rich Quotes

“Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.”
“Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.”
“When Ginger Rogers danced with Astaire, it was the only time in the movies when you looked at the man, not the woman.”
“Very often, gleams of light come in a few minutes' sleeplessness, in a second perhaps; you must fix them. To entrust them to the relaxed brain is like writing on water; there is every chance that on the morrow there will be no slightest trace left of any happening.”
“Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness.”

Source : Isaac Barrow (1849). “Eighteen Sermons on Various Subjects”, p.38
“I am the suburb of a non-existent town, the prolix commentary on a book never written. I am nobody, nobody. I am a character in a novel which remains to be written, and I float, aerial, scattered without ever having been, among the dreams of a creature who did not know how to finish me off.”
“We are just about to cross the 400 parts per million threshold.”
“Only caring individuals can restore the places we inhabit. The 'simple act of planting a tree' not only restores the places we live, but makes us whole and powerful again.”

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