A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.
Interpretation
A creative economy drives exceptional achievements and innovations.
Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes the importance of a creative economy as a vital force that enables exceptional accomplishments and advancements within society. By fostering creativity, communities and individuals can achieve greatness and push the boundaries of what is possible, ultimately leading to a more prosperous and dynamic world.
In practice
During a business conference, one might use this quote to inspire discussions on the importance of creativity in driving economic growth.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws.
The financial crisis and the Great Recession demonstrated, in a dramatic and unmistakable manner, how extraordinarily vulnerable are the large share of American families with very few assets to fall back on. We have come far from the worst moments of the crisis, and the economy continues to improve.
America had been a boom-and-bust economy going into the Great Depression - just over and over and over, fortunes were wiped out, ordinary families were crushed under it.
Ninety-eight percent of all American companies have fewer than 100 employees. Over half of all Americans work for a small business. Small businesses are the backbone of our nationβs economy and we must protect this great resource.....Helping American small business is part of our movement for change and the end of politics as usual.
What we collectively decide about how to bail out our economy, how to pull our economy out of a ditch and what rules we put in place to make sure this problem does not happen again, will shape our country for the next 50 years. This is it.
In fact, I'd say that the sources of the economy's expansion from 2003 to 2007 were, in order, the housing bubble, the war, and - very much in third place - tax cuts.
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