114 Quotes by Geoff Mulgan

A lot of people in government don’t really read books at all.

The central position of finance capital is going to come to an end, and it’s going to steadily move to the sides, the margins of our society, transformed from being a master into a servant, a servant to the productive economy and of human needs.

The most important innovators often don’t need any technologies – just imagination and acute sensitivity to people’s needs.

A modest dose of self-love is entirely healthy – who would want to live in a world where everyone hated themselves? But taken too far, it soon becomes poisonous.

Cities simply don’t have the powers they need to radically innovate in cutting obesity or the number of disaffected teenagers.

Big business increasingly likes to portray itself as socially concerned, adopting the style of civic action through ‘campaigns’ of varying degrees of cynicism.