Evan Davis Quotes

We all know that Americans love their statistics - in sport, obviously. And in finance too.

It's not a bad idea to occasionally spend a little time thinking about things you take for granted. Plain everyday things.

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Evan Harold Davis (born 8 April 1962) is an English broadcaster and former economist. Working for the BBC, he has presented Dragons' Den on BBC Television since 2005, and PM on BBC Radio 4 since 2018. He also presents The Bottom Line, a business-related discussion programme.
In October 2001, Davis took over from Peter Jay as the BBC's economics editor. He left this post in April 2008 to become a presenter on Radio 4's Today programme. In September 2014, he left Today to be the main presenter of Newsnight for four years. On 5 November 2018, Davis began presenting Radio 4's PM programme.

It's amazing, if you know what you want to say, how fast it is to write.

I've always been scared of advertising folk. I've met them at parties and I've been to their offices and I've always found them intimidatingly cool. At one company I visited, they held their meetings...

In principle, there are only three main components of spending that much matter to monetary policy: consumer spending, business investment and exports and trade.

Men don't know much about women. We do know when they're happy. We know when they're crying, and we know when they're pissed off. We just don't know in what order these are gonna come at us.

Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you are fine.

The new industries are brainy industries and so-called knowledge workers tend to like to be near other people who are the same. Think of the City of Hollywood. People cluster. This means you have winn...

But beginners to the World Economics Forum have to understand there is no single Davos experience, and there is no single Davos community either. There are numerous tribes who interact only at a minim...

We Brits print banknotes out in Debden in Essex, and have contracted it out to the private sector. Here in the U.S. it is a government operation right in the heart of Washington next door to the Holoc...

Black Friday is not another bad hair day in Wall Street. It's the term used by American retailers to describe the day after the Thanksgiving Holiday, seen as the semi-official start of Christmas shopp...

Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.

For industry to settle in a country, you first need electricity for electricity, you need some trained workers for trained workers, you need some schools for schools you need some money for money, you...