More - Robert Reich Quotes

Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together.

Robert Reich

 People

A lot of attention has been going to social values -- abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues -- but economic values are equally important.

Robert Reich

 Abortion

It makes absolutely no economic sense for states to pay off companies in a zero-sum contest where no new jobs are created at the end of the day.

Robert Reich

 

The most important community for an individual will not necessarily be a company but a looser community of people with similar skills and social connections. Continually building up those skills and connections is what a career is today.

Robert Reich

 Community

In unity, there is strength, ... And if the AFL-CIO splits, the fear is at least that the entire labor union movement will be less powerful than it is today -- and that's not very powerful.

Robert Reich

 

A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term.

Robert Reich

 American Economist Leadership

We're going to have to have a massive program to get these people permanent housing, ideally near or in their former communities, to get them jobs, to help restart businesses and to provide transportation,

Robert Reich

 People

He is a little man, slightly stooped, balding, large nose, wide lips, wry smile. He wears thick glasses, ... Locked in the Cabinet.

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How did a shy little Jewish guy like you get to be the most powerful man in America?

Robert Reich

 

Almost a third of these people were below the poverty line, ... would have to include a broad-based plan to revive business, industries and jobs.

Robert Reich