Economic Center Quotes

I think Amsterdam is to Holland what New York is to America in a sense. It's a metropolis, so it's representative of Holland, but only a part of it - you know, it's more extreme, there's more happening, it's more liberal and more daring than the countryside in Holland is.

London is the most commercially important city in Europe, and it's the most populous city. It should be for the whole of the European continent what New York is to America. That's what it should be.

Silicon Valley has been a technology capital like New York is a financial capital.

All roads lead to Johannesburg.

Manhattan is just all bank branches.

Running for office in our country takes a lot of money, and candidates have to go out and raise it. New York is probably the leading site for contributions for fundraising for candidates on both sides of the aisle, and it's also our economic center. And there are a lot of people here who should ask some tough questions before handing over campaign contributions to people who were really playing chicken with our whole economy.

London is the clearing-house of the world.

The Philadelphia region does have capital, but there's no concentration of it.

One of the special characteristics of New York is that it is different from a London or a Paris because it's the financial capital, and the cultural capital, but not the political capital.

Provided that the City of London remains, as it is at present, the clearing-house of the world, any other nation may be its workshop.

I mean New York City is the financial capital of the world. It's where all the money passes through, the Dow Jones, whatever, that's where all the money goes.

The rise or fall of Shanghai means the birth or death of the whole nation.

I do recognize that India has to be the center, the hub of activity as far as the knowledge economy is concerned.

Boston is the engine of the state's economy.

The City of London is always going to be there and will continue to be important.