Economy
Woking is home to the McLaren Group. The group is responsible for both McLaren Racing, which fields the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes Formula One racing cars (driven by world champions Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton); and McLaren Automotive, builder of the McLaren F1 and Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren supercars. During 2010 and 2011 the McLaren technology centre received a £50million extension, which was opened by David Cameron.
Many thousands of people who live in Woking town and district commute to work in central London each day. Woking railway station is one of the busiest commuter stations in the London commuter belt, and Woking's position along the M25 Motorway also facilitates commutation both into London and throughout the Home Counties.
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Famous quotes containing the word economy:
“It enhances our sense of the grand security and serenity of nature to observe the still undisturbed economy and content of the fishes of this century, their happiness a regular fruit of the summer.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The aim of the laborer should be, not to get his living, to get “a good job,” but to perform well a certain work; and, even in a pecuniary sense, it would be economy for a town to pay its laborers so well that they would not feel that they were working for low ends, as for a livelihood merely, but for scientific, or even moral ends. Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Quidquid luce fuit tenebris agit: but also the other way around. What we experience in dreams, so long as we experience it frequently, is in the end just as much a part of the total economy of our soul as anything we “really” experience: because of it we are richer or poorer, are sensitive to one need more or less, and are eventually guided a little by our dream-habits in broad daylight and even in the most cheerful moments occupying our waking spirit.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)