A Quote by Malcolm Muggeridge

Higher education is booming in the United States; the Gross National Mind is mounting along with the Gross National Product.

Malcolm Muggeridge

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Malcolm Muggeridge
British - Journalist
March 24, 1903 - November 14, 1990

In its best prewar year, Europe with almost 300 million people had a gross national product of 150 billion dollars. In that same year, the United States with 150 million people had a gross national product of 300 billion dollars.

Paul Hoffman

The United States government, in figuring our gross national product, defines 'durable goods' as anything that will last three years.

Barbara Holland

Gross National Happiness is more important than Gross Domestic Product. attr to Buthan's King Jigme Singye Wangchuck

John Robbins

We will find neither national purpose nor personal satisfaction in a mere continuation of economic progress, in an endless amassing of worldly goods. We cannot measure national spirit by the Dow Jones Average, nor national achievement by the Gross National Product.

Robert Kennedy

The accumulation and cross-generational transmission of wealth in the United States has gone way too far. When a young hedge-fund manager can take home a sum reminiscent of the gross national product of a small country, something is askew.

Howard Gardner

From the point of view of the economy, the sale of weapons is indistinguishable from the sale of food. When a building collapses or a plane crashes, it?s rather inconvenient from the point of view of those inside, but it?s altogether convenient for the growth of the gross national product, which sometimes ought to be called the "gross criminal product."

Eduardo Galeano

Gross National Product is our Holy Grail.

Stewart Udall

The substance of man cannot be measured by Gross National Product.

E. F. Schumacher

So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product.

George Wald

If we want to talk about Gross Natural Product, we have to talk about the King of Bhutan's index of Gross National Happiness, too. Certainly I have found, as many travellers before me, that people in the poorest places are often the readiest to shower me, from an affluent country, with hospitality and kindness.

Pico Iyer

PepsiCo is the largest food-and-beverage company in the United States, and the second-largest in the world after Nestle. If PepsiCo were a country, the size of its economy - sixty billion dollars in revenues in 2010 - would put it sixty-sixth in gross national product, between Ecuador and Croatia.

John Seabrook

If design is to be ecologically responsible, it must be independent of concern for the gross national product.

Victor Papanek

The Gross National Product measures everything except that which makes life worthwhile.

Robert Kennedy

A nation's greatness is measured not just by its gross national product or military power, but by the strength of its devotion to the principles and values that bind its people and define their character.

Ronald Reagan

The gross national product includes air pollution and advertising for cigarettes, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors, and jails for the people who break them ... It does not allow for the health of our families, the quality of thier education, or the joy of their play.

Robert Kennedy

Capital in the hands of a national government forms a part of the gross national capital.