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Peter Blair Henry Quotes

As an economist, I'm aware that life is full of trade offs.

As an economist, I'm aware that life is full of trade offs.

Peter Blair Henry
Life Is, Economist, Trade

Economic growth creates jobs, and countries grow when they educate their people and pursue policies that encourage households to save, existing businesses to invest, and entrepreneurs to innovate and create new markets.

Peter Blair Henry
Country, Jobs, People

I think my wife would take objection to any characterization of me as perfect.

Peter Blair Henry
Thinking, Perfect, Wife

Good economic policy requires not so much the bravado to implement drastic change as the strength and wisdom to make reasonable trade-offs over the many years it takes to transform a country's standard of living.

Peter Blair Henry
Country, Years, Economic
Peter Blair Henry (2013). “Turnaround: Third World Lessons for First World Growth”, p.7, Hachette UK

Disciplined governments do not engage in the economic equivalent of binge eating followed by crash dieting.

Peter Blair Henry
Government, Dieting, Eating

Business is one of the most powerful institutions on Earth for creating wealth and opportunity and helping to lift people out of poverty. When you think about it that way, then business is not separate from development policy.

Peter Blair Henry
Powerful, Thinking, Opportunity

In Jamaica, you're never very far away from people who don't have very much, and in Wilmette, pretty much everybody had a lot.

Peter Blair Henry
Jamaica, People, Far Away

You can actually make a lot of money and do a lot of good in the world. I don't see those things as being in opposition to one another. I never have.

Peter Blair Henry
World, Good In The World, Opposition

A government decision that slashes spending at the wrong time and sends a weak economy into a tailspin can be just as undisciplined as one that unleashes a wasteful spending spree in an overheated environment.

Peter Blair Henry
Government, Decision, Environment
Peter Blair Henry (2013). “Turnaround: Third World Lessons for First World Growth”, p.10, Basic Books

Between 2001 and 2011, Brazil lifted 20 million people out of poverty and into its growing middle class, and in the last quarter of the twentieth century Botswana's gross domestic product per capita grew faster than that of any other country on the planet. The once-labeled 'Third World' is edging its way into the 'First World.'

Peter Blair Henry
Country, Class, People
Peter Blair Henry, Peter Henry (2013). “Turnaround: Third World Lessons for First World Growth”, p.6, Basic Books

I think that whether you're on the right or on the left as an economist or as a policy maker, every serious analyst I know agrees that at some point you have to deal with entitlements.

Peter Blair Henry
Thinking, Serious, Entitlement
"The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 16, 2013.

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