Quotes by Peter Blair Henry - Page 1

As an economist, I'm aware that life is full of trade offs.
Peter Blair Henry / Economist
Economist
Life Is
Trade
Aware
Full
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I think my wife would take objection to any characterization of me as perfect.
Peter Blair Henry / Economist
Characterization
Perfect
Thinking
Wife
Objection
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Disciplined governments do not engage in the economic equivalent of binge eating followed by crash dieting.
Peter Blair Henry / Economist
Government
Binge
Crash
Dieting
Eating
Disciplined
Equivalent
Followed
Governments
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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 / Economist
Far Away
Jamaica
People
People Never Who
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Because I come from a place like Jamaica, which is a small, open economy, I viscerally get the importance of the global economy.
Peter Blair Henry / Economist
Economy
Global Economy
Importance
Jamaica
Global
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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 / Economist
Good In The World
Opposition
World
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It's probably indicative that I was destined for an academic career that I'm 6-5 and I lost the slam-dunk championship to somebody 5-8. I was a lot better at math.
Peter Blair Henry / Economist
Academic
Championship
Destined
Math
Indicative
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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 / Economist
Agree
Economist
Entitlement
Serious
Thinking
Analyst
Maker
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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 / Economist
Government
Decision
Environment
Spending
Undisciplined
Wasteful Spending
Wrong Time
Wasteful
Sends
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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 / Economist
Wisdom
Bravado
Country
Drastic
Drastic Change
Economic
Policy
Reasonable
Years
Implement
Standard
Requires
Transform
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Just as an individual's ability to delay gratification at a young age is a powerful predictor of future academic and professional achievement, discipline is also central to the long-run economic health of nations.
Peter Blair Henry / Economist
Health
Ability
Academic
Achievement
Delay
Discipline
Economic
Gratification
Individual
Nations
Powerful
Young Age
Central
Predictor
Professional
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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 / Economist
Jobs
Country
Economic
Economic Growth
Growth
People
Pursue
Businesses
Growth Grow People
Invest
Countries
Creates
Entrepreneurs
Existing
Households
Innovate
Markets
Policies
Save
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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 / Economist
Opportunity
Creating
Helping
Most Powerful
Poverty
Powerful
Thinking
Wealth
Lift
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Fear of foreign domination in India led the Janata Party, in the 1970s, to push for partial Indian ownership of all multinational firms within the country. The result was a spectacular pullback, by companies such as IBM and Coca-Cola, and a stagnant economy.
Peter Blair Henry / Economist
Coca Cola
Country
Domination
Economy
Ibm
Indian
Ownership
Party
Spectacular
Stagnant
Within
Companies
Foreign
Led
Multinational
Partial
Push
Result
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I'm generally slow to anger, quick to forgive, and I take in information before making decisions. So no matter how controversial the decision, my general demeanour is to put on white lab coat and gloves and look at the evidence, weigh the arguments and see what makes sense.
Peter Blair Henry / Economist
Anger
Argument
Controversial
Decision
Evidence
Gloves
Information
Making Decisions
Matter
White
Decisions
General
Before
Take
Coat
How
Forgive
Look
Lab
Makes
Put
Quick
Slow
See
Sense
Weigh
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I was born in Jamaica but was educated by, and now serve, prestigious First World institutions, so I believe that I have a unique, dual perspective. To sidestep any biases I might have, I use the objective lens of the stock market to discover which policies actually delivered prosperity to emerging markets.
Peter Blair Henry / Economist
Born
Educated
Emerging
Jamaica
Might
Perspective
Prestigious
Prosperity
Unique
Believe World I Believe
Now
Actually
Biases
Believe I Believe World
Dual
Delivered
Discover
First World
Lens
Market
Objective
Policies
Serve
Stock
Stock Market
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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 / Economist
Brazil
Class
Country
Faster
Gross
Middle
Middle Class
People
Poverty
Third World
Twentieth Century
World People Way
Any Other Country
Domestic
First World
World Country People
Per
Lifted
Million
Million People
Planet
Product
Quarter
Third
Twentieth
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