“We're in an era in which we want to believe people have roughly equal potential. IQ gives the lie to that.” Quote by Marty Nemko
“The lack of crispness comes significantly from a societal change in what's valued: a replacement of bold individual initiative with collaboration, consensus, teamwork etc. All that team-involved decision-making often leads to tepid solutions and a slow-moving organization.” MovingIndividualDecisionTeamInvolvedSolutionsOrganizationEtcDecision MakingTeamworkCollaborationInitiativeConsensusReplacements Author:Marty Nemko
“What may create even more jobs is to develop more entrepreneurs, of course, ethical ones.” MayJobsCoursesEntrepreneurEthical Author:Marty Nemko
“Entrepreneurship may be the most under-taught subject.” MaySubjectsTaughtEntrepreneurship Author:Marty Nemko
“No murderer has eternal life abiding in him.” EternalMurdererEternal LifeAbiding Author:John the Apostle
“People think of a business cycle, which is a boom followed by a recession and then automatic stabilizers revive the economy. But this time we can't revive. The reason is that every recovery since 1945 has begun with a higher, and higher level of debt. The debt is so high now, that since 2008 we've been in what I call, debt deflation.” PeopleThinkingReasonLevelsEconomyHigherDebtRecoveryCyclesRecessionsHigher LevelReviveDeflation Author:Michael Hudson
“People have to pay so much money to the banks that they don't have enough money to buy the goods and services they produce. So there's not much new investment, there's not new employment (except minimum-wage "service" jobs), markets are shrinking, and people are defaulting. So many companies can't pay their banks.” PeopleEnoughJobsPayCompanyProduceInvestmentEmploymentGoodsMinimumMinimum WageShrinkingGoods And Services Author:Michael Hudson
“The banks' product is debt. They try to tell customers that "debts are good for you," but the customers can't afford any more debt, so there's no way the banks can continue their current business plan.” WayTryingPlansProductsCurrentsDebtCustomersBusiness Plan Author:Michael Hudson
“Basically, I was a hippie and still am a flower child.” ChildrenStillsFlowerHippieFlower Child Author:Donna Karan
“In fact, there's no way that banks can be paid everything that they're owed.” WayFactsPaid Author:Michael Hudson
“We're at the end of long cycle that began in 1945, loading the economy with debt. We're not going to be able to get out of it until you write down the debts. But that's what the IMF believes is unthinkable. It can't say that, because it's supposed to represent the interest of the banks.” WritingBelieveLongEndsAbleInterestEconomyDebtCyclesUnthinkableImf Author:Michael Hudson