Quotes by Robert Zoellick - Page 1

Don't just analyze a problem - solve it.
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Problem
Solve
Analyze
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My true love is history, but I didn't know how I could make a living at it.
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True Love
Love Is
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There are many roads to prosperity, but one must be taken. Inaction leads nowhere.
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Inaction
Prosperity
Taken
Nowhere
Must
Leads
Roads
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Since I came to the World Bank in 2007, I have argued that we must 'modernize multilateralism.'
Robert Zoellick /
World Bank
Argued
Bank
Modernize
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Corruption is a cancer that steals from the poor, eats away at governance and moral fibre and destroys trust.
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Cancer
Moral
Scandal
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An empowered public is the foundation for a stronger society, more effective government, and a more successful state.
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Empowered
Stronger
Effective
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One of the challenges for sub-Saharan Africa is that markets are of modest size. This makes regional integration important.
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Challenges
Important
Integration
Modest
Size
Sub Saharan Africa
Africa
Markets
Regional
Sub-Saharan
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Rwanda is a landlocked country, but it hasn't stopped developing. They built a high-end tourism industry around the mountain gorillas.
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Developing
Mountain
Rwanda
Tourism
Tourism Industry
High-End
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The most effective executive branch officials try to help legislators develop explanations for the votes they are being asked to take.
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Branches
Executive Branch
Helping
Legislators
Officials
Trying
Explanations
Asked
Branch
Develop
Effective
Executive
Votes
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All of us make mistakes. The key is to acknowledge them, learn, and move on. The real sin is ignoring mistakes, or worse, seeking to hide them.
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Acknowledge
Mistake
Moving
Real
Seeking
Sin
Mistakes
Hide
Ignoring
Learn
Move
Move On
Worse
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Climate change policies cannot be the frosting on the cake of development; they must be baked into the recipe of growth and social development.
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Cake
Climate
Growth
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The world is only one poor harvest away from chaos. We are so close to the edge that politically destabilising food prices could come at any time
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Chaos
Harvest
World
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It is clearly the case that programs in Europe and the United States that have increased biofuel production have contributed to the added demand for food.
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Demand
Added
Programs
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In London, Washington, and Paris, people talk of bonuses or no bonuses. In parts of Africa, South Asia, and Latin America, the struggle is for food or no food.
Robert Zoellick /
Latin
Paris
Struggle
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It is vital that the World Bank Group continually challenges itself to refresh our development thinking. It is vital that a modernized multilateralism be open to new ideas.
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Challenges
Ideas
New Ideas
Thinking
World Bank
Bank
Continually
Refresh
Vital
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Private sector development and the creation of small businesses spur investment, jobs, opportunity, and hope. It empowers the market to meet local needs, whether for food, basic goods, or services.
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Jobs
Opportunity
Creation
Empowering
Goods
Investment
Private Sector
Businesses
Empowers
Sector
Services
Small Businesses
Spur
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It is much harder for economies to prosper if they cannot sell to, buy from, invest with, and even transit their neighbors. Landlocked countries with failed or failing neighbors can lose access to the world economy.
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Access
Failing
Harder
World Economy
Buy
Invest
Countries
Economies
Failed
Sell
Neighbors
Prosper
Transit
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Great upheavals produce shock waves that widen cracks in political, economic, and security orders. Sometimes the old orders break. Yet it can be in the power of leaders and peoples to shape the directions of change.
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Cracks
Produce
Shock
Change Power Great
Directions
Orders
Waves
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When I work with countries struggling to pay for budgets or finance trade deficits, I reflect on how Americans do not spend a moment considering the unique advantages of being able to issue bonds and print money freely.
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Finance
Budgets
Considering
Country
Print
Struggle
Unique
Advantages
Work Money Finance
Bonds
Countries
Deficits
Freely
Issue
Print Money
Reflect
Struggling
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The Congress has had an uneasy relationship with banks and bankers since Alexander Hamilton. It took the United States until 1913 to set up a central bank. The Federal Reserve earned its hard-won independence over years of effort.
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Independence
Federal Reserve
Hamilton
Uneasy
Alexander
Bank
Banks
Central
Central Bank
Earned
Federal
Reserve
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Japan rose from the ashes of World War II as a 'trading state,' the model for export-led growth. It is not clear that the old export model of growth will be sustainable in a more 'balanced' global economy that does not rely so heavily on the U.S. consumer.
Robert Zoellick /
Ashes
Balanced
Global Economy
Japan
Rely
Trading
World War Ii
Consumer
Sustainable
Export
World War
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In the U.S and Europe over the last year we've been focused on the prices of gasoline at the pump. While many worry about filling their gas tanks, many others around the world are struggling to fill their stomachs. And it's getting more and more difficult every day.
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Europe
Struggle
Years
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When I consider a problem, it is now instinctive for me to think about the institutions involved, the authorizing environment, possible coalitions, likely opposition, implementation, legal issues, resource dimensions, communications - and how the problem fits into a stream of other issues.
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Legal
Dimensions
Implementation
Coalition
Communications
Fits
Instinctive
Resource
Stream
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