Gavyn Davies Quotes

• Inflation is not always the main problem, or indeed a problem at all. Sometimes, though rarely, deflation is a more serious threat, and we need to shelve many of the orthodoxies we have held so dear.

  Gavyn Davies

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Inflation, Serious, Problem

• Over the last decade, economists seemed to share a broad consensus about economic policy, with the old splits between monetarists and Keynesians apparently being settled by events. But the Great Recession of the last two years has changed everything.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Great, Recession, Economic, Policy

• The BBC is part of the glue which binds the United Kingdom together. At those times of national moment – of joy or sadness, in the UK or around the world, at times when the nation wants to celebrate, mourn or just enjoy ihttp://www.quoteswave.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=346785&action=edittself people turn to the BBC.

  Gavyn Davies

  Topics in Country

  Tags in National, Moment

• The BBC must never be all about ratings – or even mainly about ratings. In the past year, we have made a raft of terrific programmes which stand comparison with the best the BBC has ever done: ‘Blue Planet,’ ‘Walking with Beasts,’ ‘Son of God,’ ‘Clocking Off,’ ‘The Way We Live Now,’ ‘Conspiracy,’ ‘Lost World.’

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Terrific, Programmes, Comparison

• Without the BBC, the proliferation of television and radio channels by the private sector would simply result in more and more channels, with tiny audiences, all seeking to do the same thing. The future would be one of fragmentation – fragmentation without either plurality or diversity.

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  Topics in Future

  Tags in Fragmentation, Diversity

• The BBC provides the commentary on our lives, the soundtrack of the nation. It is one of the most powerful unifying forces in the United Kingdom today.

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  Topics in Country

  Tags in Powerful, Forces

• The BBC should not have a cheerleader. It should have somebody who runs the organisation in the interests of the public and that should be a chairman.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Organisation, Cheerleader

• There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in People, British, Responsibility

• I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee… and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe.

  Gavyn Davies

  Topics in Service

  Tags in Broadcaster

• Almost everyone will find something in our services worth paying for.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Services

• Other than marriage, she doesn’t control me and I don’t control her.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Marriage

• It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system.

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  Topics in Failure

  Tags in Market

• As long as the appointment process is transparent and there is a broad mix of political views among the governors of the BBC, I think the public can feel confident that impartiality and independence are just as important to me as they have been to previous incumbents.

  Gavyn Davies

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Political, Governors

• Normally I would not recommend a book that tells you how to make money in the stock market. Most of these books are aimed at gullible folk, and they usually make much more money for their authors than they do for the investing public.

  Gavyn Davies

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Stock Market, Public

Gavyn Davies (14)

Birth:	27th November, 1950
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Businessman, Economist, Journalist

About

Gavyn Davies was born in Zimbabwe. He is an English businessman, economist, and journalist. He is a former Goldman Sachs partner and multi-millionaire who was the chairman of the BBC from 2001 until 2004. He worked in Harold Wilson's Policy Unit from 1974–76 and then as an economic advisor to James Callaghan from 1976–1979. In 2005 he set up a $1.35 Billion hedge fund to invest in macroeconomic situations. He wrote a weekly column on mathematics and statistics, Gavyn Davies does the maths, on Thursdays for The Guardian newspaper. He is currently working as a founding partner of Active Private Equity, Anthos Capital, and Prisma Capital Partners, as well as Chairman of Fulcrum Asset Management.

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