Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" Those who argue for Brexit are wrong, and that is because they have not been properly informed about the costs. "
Jose Angel Gurria
Because
Wrong
Costs
Related Quotes:
" If the world is to avoid a collision with nature - one that humanity surely cannot win - we must act boldly on every front, particularly with respect to carbon pricing and the coherence of our economic and energy policies. "
Jose Angel Gurria
World
Act
Energy
" If we can rid the world of financial centres that thrive on lack of transparency, non-cooperation, and weak regulation, an important step towards a fairer and cleaner world economy will have been achieved. "
Jose Angel Gurria
Financial
Step
Will
" The idea that if governments open up and become more democratic they will fall is a false dilemma. "
Jose Angel Gurria
Dilemma
Fall
More
" 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
Time
Growth
Doing
" Most businesses do not take governments seriously when it comes to climate, primarily because many governments have inconsistent and incoherent policies and then often keep changing them, sometimes retroactively. This makes businesses reluctant to invest in greener technologies. "
Jose Angel Gurria
Because
Sometimes
Seriously
" Our leaders must get to grips with the huge risk that carbon dioxide emissions pose to the economy and the environment. As we know, carbon dioxide is a long-lived gas. It hangs around. "
Jose Angel Gurria
Know
Pose
Risk
" Some challenges remain, but the bottom line is that low-carbon options can and should play a much greater role in energy supply. "
Jose Angel Gurria
Role
Energy
Challenges
" Uncertainty and fears of social decline and exclusion have reached the middle class in many societies. "
Jose Angel Gurria
Many
Middle
Social
" The G7 doesn't have a permanent secretariat. The OECD can help the G8 and set the agenda for them. The secretary general of the OECD should be going to them proactively and discussing issues and priorities. "
Jose Angel Gurria
Help
Priorities
Them
" To give students the best possible chance to succeed, education must prepare them to handle issues that transcend national boundaries. "
Jose Angel Gurria
Handle
Succeed
Best
" The U.K. is much stronger as a part of Europe, and Europe is much stronger with the U.K. as a driving force. "
Jose Angel Gurria
Force
Much
Stronger
" Ending our reliance on fossil fuels was never going to be easy. "
Jose Angel Gurria
Easy
Ending
Fossil Fuels
" 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
Better
Partner
Design
" It doesn't really matter who owns things so long there is enough competition, which means lower pricing, better quality goods, more variety, and an economy where the consumers are the big winners. "
Jose Angel Gurria
Quality
More
Long
" When, as an individual, you are not paying taxes, it is evasion. As a corporate, it is legal shrewdness or tax engineering. "
Jose Angel Gurria
Taxes
Engineering
Legal
" Water security is not just for domestic policies. International co-operation is crucial to sustainably manage trans-boundary water bodies and river basins. "
Jose Angel Gurria
River
Security
Water
" One of the greatest challenges of democracies today is the question of financing campaigns. It's a tremendous challenge. Obviously I think the solution is to have the governments pay for all the campaigns and not to have any private contributions. "
Jose Angel Gurria
Today
Pay
Challenges
" Our mission is to make the world economy work better. "
Jose Angel Gurria
Better
World
Work
" Regulations for international accounting and funding will have to be examined to identify policies that inadvertently discourage institutional investors from putting their resources into longer-term, illiquid assets. "
Jose Angel Gurria
Funding
Will
Resources
" Words must be matched by action if change is to become lasting. "
Jose Angel Gurria
Action
Become
Change
" There is no reason for women to trail behind men in social, economic, and political outcomes. "
Jose Angel Gurria
Women
Men
Trail
" It isn't only rich countries that suffer from the effects of tax havens. Developing countries also lose billions of dollars in tax revenues due each year because wealthy individuals and some companies use tax havens to move assets and income offshore. "
Jose Angel Gurria
Rich
Suffer
Tax
" Governments must address inconsistencies in their energy strategies, consider the links with broader economic policies, and stop sending mixed signals to consumers, producers, and investors. In particular, they must assess whether the right regulatory arrangements are in place to allow clean-energy investments to compete on a risk-return basis. "
Jose Angel Gurria
Energy
Place
Economic
" By assessing the capabilities and knowledge of students in the highest-performing and most rapidly improving education systems, the OECD's Program for International Student Assessment provides valuable options for reform and information on how to achieve it. "
Jose Angel Gurria
Knowledge
Most
Education
" I say just put a big fat tax on carbon. "
Jose Angel Gurria
Big
Say
Carbon
" Countries like Japan do not have to change their cultures to address their educational shortcomings; they simply have to adjust their policies and practices. "
Jose Angel Gurria
Japan
Cultures
Change
" Transparency and effective tax co-operation must be shared principles applied by all. Until they are, nations will need to protect themselves against loss of revenues to tax havens. "
Jose Angel Gurria
Need
Principles
Loss
" When a large financial institution is allowed to fail, you put in jeopardy hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people. "
Jose Angel Gurria
Fail
Financial
You
" We are dealing with the greater challenges of globalisation. It is generating, in many cases, an increase in the levels of inequality in societies... that is undesirable. "
Jose Angel Gurria
Many
Inequality
Dealing
" We need to achieve zero emissions from fossil fuel sources by the second half of the century. That doesn't mean by 2050 exactly, but it means by that time we need to be pretty much on the way to achieving it. "
Jose Angel Gurria
Way
Time
Need