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" At the OECD, we stand ready to continue to help our member and partner countries to design, promote, and implement Better Policies for Better Lives. "

Jose Angel Gurria

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" To me, 'design thinking' is another way of saying empathize with the customer. It's consideration for the person you're designing for. "

" In a world that places a growing premium on social skills, education systems need to do much better at fostering those skills systematically across the school curriculum. "

Jose Angel Gurria

" I have been fully involved in designing my stage shows; it's important to me to do something really unique and almost off-the-wall to bring the music and the visuals together. I love design and actually went to school for a bit for graphic design, so it isn't so much 'pressure' for me; it's a way to be creative, and I really enjoy it. "

" Wearing a bold print gets harder as you get older. It's safer to stick to subtle prints or block colours. I have always found prints quite tricky. My daughter Carly, who is on the design team at Stella McCartney, is obsessed with them. "

" Everything at Apple can be best understood through the lens of designing. Whether it's designing the look and feel of the user experience, or the industrial design, or the system design, and even things like how the boards were laid out. "

" There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This is not the product of accident. This is the product of design. "

" In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also often feels good. "

" In the face of sluggish growth, aging societies, and increasing educational attainment of young women, the economic case for gender equality is clear. "

Jose Angel Gurria

" I used to design for my body, which was flat-chested with big hips. That's why my clothes were tight on top with full skirts. "

" Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next. "

" When I meet celebrities, I have to know what they are like and only then can I design. The clothes have to fit their personality. "

Donatella Versace

" At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design. "

" The details are not the details. They make the design. "

" The City of London is always going to be there and will continue to be important. "

Jose Angel Gurria

" Israel has been doing very well, but there are challenges the country faces, like poverty and social integration of the Orthodox, Arab, Beduin, and Ethiopian population, which will be essential for sustaining strong growth over time. "

Jose Angel Gurria

" I feel confident that leaders will rise to this challenge with a stronger commitment to tackle climate change and seize the economic opportunities that a post-carbon world has to offer. "

Jose Angel Gurria

" Advertising is, of course, important because advertise is the final design. It's the last layer that speaks to the customer, that tells them what you have. "

" I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design. "

" It's funny now how much we look at - whatever you want to call it: art, design, culture stuff, film - online, and how in the online world, you're instantly global. "

" I am very happy to design haute couture. It's a love story between couture and me. "

Yves Saint Laurent

" We have the largest digital design studio in the world. "

Pierre Nanterme

" We worked with the engineers in the design and construction and testing phases in those various areas, then we would get back together at the end of the week and brief each other as to what had gone on. "

" I spearhead interior design for all Trump projects. "

" The euro is going to continue to be the largest single trading block. "

Jose Angel Gurria

" I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment. "

" Biomimicry is basically taking a design challenge and then finding an ecosystem that's already solved that challenge, and literally trying to emulate what you learn. "

" It seems to be a law of design that for every advantage introduced through redesign, there is an accompanying unintended disadvantage. "

" Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far. "

" Urban planning and design are helping us to shift from a car-centric system to a bike-centric one by making bicycles and bicycle infrastructure superior in functionality and attractiveness. "

Jens Martin Skibsted

" No design, no matter how common or seemingly insignificant, is without its adamant critics as well as its ardent admirers. "