Logo
Quote by Vince Cable
When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments

When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right. – Vince Cable

Other quotes by Vince Cable

For wide swaths of training and education there are valuable spillovers which mean that the private sector needs support from the government. That is why I have been so determined to protect and grow apprenticeships and put higher education on a sustainable footing. – Vince Cable

Category:
Education
Author
Vince Cable
Read Quote

I think what is happening is I think first of all there is confidence in the U.K. economy. Were in a German rather than a Greek position in international financial markets, which is very positive and keeps our debt service costs down, and were also beginning to see real evidence of rebalancing. – Vince Cable

Category:
positive
Author
Vince Cable
Read Quote

I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues – Tories – in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. Im not a believer in laissez-faire. – Vince Cable

Category:
Government
Author
Vince Cable
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Future
category

In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future. – Gustav Stresemann

Category:
Future

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future. – Hubert H. Humphrey

Category:
Future

Life is hopefully long, so I dont know what the future will bring. – Bethenny Frankel

Category:
Future

I dont just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too. So I speak as British prime minister with a positive vision for the future of the European Union. A future in which Britain wants, and should want, to play a committed and active part. – David Cameron

Category:
Future

Random Quotes

I know what I look like – a weird, sad clown puppet. Im fine with that. – Rainn Wilson

Category:
sad

I am against all war. – Sophia Loren

Category:
War

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is. – Henri Frederic Amiel

Category:
Character

I dont do the gym and I dont diet. Im vegetarian but I dont diet. – Pamela Anderson

Category:
diet