Local Commitment Quotes

If someone asks me to go to speak at, say, Princeton, I might or might not go. But if someone asks me from Norman, Oklahoma, I certainly will go.

An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.

I don't have massive ambitions to be anywhere other than in this country doing good work.

I am committed and content to work for the people of Odisha. I have no national ambitions whatsoever.

Whoever moves into a community has a vested interest in it.

It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education.

Well, you have to understand where we came from. We are not here because we decided 10 years ago that we were going to be x-size company, and, oh, yeah, Jackson would be a good headquarters. We work here in Mississippi because we started here, and we are certainly happy here. Those of us working out of Jackson intend to continue working out of Jackson.

From a social point of view, it's beneficial that homeownership encourages commitment to a given town or city. But, from an economic point of view, it's good for people to be able to leave places where there's less work and move to places where there's more.

A big shop in Manhattan would feel like we were betraying our roots. And we're not just going to open a bunch of stores.