“Laughter is America's most important export.”
Walt Disney (1901–1966) American film producer and businessman
The Quotable Walt Disney (2001)
Source: The Vampire Economy: Doing Business Under Fascism, 2014, p. 216
“Laughter is America's most important export.”
Walt Disney (1901–1966) American film producer and businessman
The Quotable Walt Disney (2001)
Theresa May (1956) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Speech as Home Secretary on the UK and European Union https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/home-secretarys-speech-on-the-uk-eu-and-our-place-in-the-world (25 April 2016)
Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution
Source: Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917), Chapter Four, "The Export of Capital"
“I consider myself more exportant than important.”
Vanna Bonta (1958–2014) Italian-American writer, poet, inventor, actress, voice artist (1958-2014)
Shades of the World, by Vanna Bonta; quoted in American Chronicle. Vanna Bonta interview, Inventors Digest: New Meaning To Beautiful http://archive.is/20120718091208/www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/101039 May 02, 2009
Clement Attlee (1883–1967) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Prime Minister
Source: Speech to the Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom at the Dorchester Hotel (13 October 1949), quoted in The Times (14 October 1949), p. 4
“We cannot import evolution and learning without exporting control.”
Kevin Kelly (1952) American author and editor
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
“Oil, Jews and Germans, are our most important export commodities.”
Nicolae Ceaușescu (1918–1989) General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party
Source: Red Horizons: Chronicles of a Communist Spy Chief, p. 73 during 1977, said to be "his favorite slogan"
“The dominant role played by… exporters’ and importers’ GNP and distance in explaining trade flows.”
Jan Tinbergen (1903–1994) Dutch economist
Source: Shaping the world economy, 1962, p. 266
Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901–1972) austrian biologist and philosopher
Von Bertalanffy (1950) " The Theory of Open Systems in Physics and Biology http://vhpark.hyperbody.nl/images/a/aa/Bertalanffy-The_Theory_of_Open_Systems_in_Physics_and_Biology.pdf" In: Science, January 13, 1950, Vol. 111. p. 23 <br class="br">1950s
Rab Butler (1902–1982) British politician
Butler as Chancellor of the Exchequer (30 November 1951), quoted in Correlli Barnett, The Verdict of Peace. Britain Between Her Yesterday and the Future (Pan, 2002), p. 1.