"During the 1960s, and again in the 1970s, growth in manufacturing productivity in the United Kingdom was the lowest of all the seven major industrial countries in the world. During the 1980s, our annual rate of growth of output per head in manufacturing has been the highest of all the seven major industrial countries."

--

Source : "The Economic Background". Speech in the House of Commons, hansard.millbanksystems.com. March 17, 1987.

Nigel Lawson

#Country Quotes #Growth Quotes #World Quotes

“We need to realize that we should be on the side of any human being who is oppressed.”
“If a musician cares about what he or she is doing, and you show up and care, you can go some place. That will never change. There are a number of ways to approach this, and my favorite is the way we're doing it now - just talking.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I'm blessed to be able to work at something that I'm good at, and that I love. It's not something I take for granted.”

Source : "Like baseball, Emmylou Harris is back". Interview with Mary Buckheit, www.espn.com. April 21, 2011.
“No, I don't think it's fair to label Islam 'violent.' But I will say that to my knowledge, no writer has ever gone into hiding for criticizing the Amish.”
“Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.”
“This is like playing Russian roulette with a Luger rather than a revolver. One bullet, one chamber - and we're pulling the trigger.”
“At the last dim horizon, we search among ghostly errors of observations for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. The search will continue. The urge is older than history. It is not satisfied and it will not be oppressed.”
“Every morning or afternoon, whenever you want to write, you have to go up and shoot that old bear under your desk between the eyes.”

You may also like:

Charles Saatchi
Art collector
Dominic Lawson
Journalist
Geoffrey Howe
British Politician
John Diamond
Journalist
John Major
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Margaret Thatcher
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Nigella Lawson
Journalist
Norman Lamont
British Politician
Norman Tebbit
British Politician