“ It's not a bad idea to occasionally spend a little time thinking about things you take for granted. Plain everyday things. Evan Davis
“ 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… Evan Davis
“ We all know that Americans love their statistics - in sport, obviously. And in finance too. Evan Davis
“ 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… Evan Davis
“ 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. Evan Davis
“ 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… Evan Davis
“ 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… Evan Davis
“ In principle, there are only three main components of spending that much matter to monetary policy: consumer spending, business investment and exports and trade. Evan Davis
“ 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… Evan Davis
“ 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… Evan Davis
“ 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. Evan Davis
