“The major material advantage, financial advantage from having a reserve currency is that between 200 and 300 billion dollar bills, that may be twenty, fifty, hundred dollar bills as well as ones, exist in the world - a lot of them in Russia as you all know I'm sure.” KnowsWorldWellsMayMaterialsMajorsHundredAdvantageTwentiesBillsDollarsFinancialBillionsRussiaFiftyCurrencyReservesDollar Bills Author:Robert C. Solomon
“Another question has been raised rather widely in Europe, in Japan as well as in the United States is what, to what extent will the euro become a reserve currency.” WellsHas BeensStatesUnitedUnited StatesEuropeRaisedJapanCurrencyReservesEuro Author:Robert C. Solomon
“High-class kitsch may well be "perfect" in its form and and composition: the academic painters were often masters of their craft. Thus, the accusation that a work of kitsch is based not on lack of for or aesthetic merit but on the presence of a particularly provocative emotional content. (The best art, by contrast, eschews emotional content altogether.)” WellsMayArtFormPerfectClassEmotionalMastersPainterCraftsMeritAestheticAcademicContrastCompositionProvocativeAccusationKitschBest ArtHigh Class Book:Entertaining Ideas: Popular Philosophical Essays, 1970-1990 Source: Entertaining Ideas: Popular Philosophical Essays, 1970-1990
“Trust is a skill learned over time so that, like a well-trained athlete, one makes the right moves, usually without much reflection.” WellsMovingTrustSkillsReflectionAthlete Book:Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life Source: Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life
