“Obama sees everything backward. Where Americans see individual achievement, he sees government's work. Where we see failing companies, he sees innovation worth subsidizing. Where we see the need for economic growth, he sees a need for higher taxes.” NeedsGovernmentIndividualGrowthCompanyFailingEconomicHigherTaxesAchievementInnovationEconomic GrowthIndividual Achievement Author:Reince Priebus
“It's clear to me when you do private equity well, you're making companies more efficient and helping them grow and become more profitable. That success means our investors - such as public pension funds - benefit, which contributes to the economic wealth of society.” WellsMeanHelpingGrowsWealthCompanyClearEconomicBenefitsFundInvestorsEfficientEquityProfitablePensionPrivate Equity Author:David Rubenstein
“The country that owns green, that dominates that industry, is going to have the most energy security, national security, economic security, competitive companies, healthy population and, most of all, global respect.” CountryEnergyCompanyEconomicSecurityIndustryHealthyGreenPopulationNational SecurityEconomic SecurityEnergy Security Author:Thomas Friedman
“Today, we have our own concentrations of economic power. Instead of Standard Oil, U.S. Steel, the Union Pacific Railroad, and J. P. Morgan and Company, we have Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft.” TodayCompanyEconomicStandardsUnionsOilApplesConcentrationGoogleSteelMicrosoftPacificAmazonRailroadsEconomic PowerStandard Oil Author:George Packer
“We are delighted that these regulations are now law, and we commend the provincial government for helping put the issue on the front burner. These requirements will push more companies to have the conversations they should be having around board and executive committee diversity and, hopefully, their talent development. Businesses need to tap the full pool of smart, talented people to stay competitive and strengthen our country’s economic future.” PeopleNeedsShouldCountryHelpingGovernmentLawCompanyIssuesEconomicTalentFrontsDevelopmentConversationDiversitySmartOur CountryHopefullyBoardsExecutivesPoolRegulationCommitteesRequirementsDelighted Author:Alex Johnston
“The future will be less predictable, forecast rises will shrink, company lifetimes will shrink, new entrants will proliferate and it’s going to just get more unpredictable. If you thought financial crises came and went, just count on them – another economic collapse, it’s almost going to be like not news any more. But for startups this is great, because it’s a perpetual driver of disruption.” IfsCompanyEconomicNewsCrisisLifetimeFinancialDriversCollapsePerpetualUnpredictableShrinksPredictableDisruptionFinancial CrisisForecastsEconomic Collapse Author:Steve Jurvetson
“Excessively precise economic analysis can lead to assessing everything in terms of its easily measurable melt value - the value that thieves get from stealing copper wiring from isolated houses, that vandals got from tearing down Greek temples for the lead joints holding the marble blocks together, that shortsighted timber companies get from liquidating their forests. The standard to insist on is live value. What is something worth when it's working?” TogetherValuesHouseTermCompanyEconomicStandardsStealingForestsBlockAnalysisGreekTemplesIsolatedThievesPreciseJointsMarbleCopperTimberWiringAssessingVandals Author:Stewart Brand
“I have been accused of being ignorant of economics (although I am the founder and Chairman of the Board of a company which publishes seven professional economic newsletters), of being ignorant of sociology (although I am trained in sociology and was C. Wright Mills' research assistant at Columbia), of being unable to use statistics (although I earned my living as a professional statistician for five years) and of ignoring political factors (although all my graduate training was in political science).” YearsHas BeensUsePoliticalCompanyFiveEconomicTrainingResearchEconomicsSevenIgnorantFactorsBoardsFive YearsStatisticsGraduatesFoundersSociologyAccusedPublishPolitical ScienceChairmanAssistantsMillsColumbiaStatisticianBeing IgnorantNewsletters Book:The New Psychohistory Source: The New Psychohistory
“The social and economic impact of innovative American researchers, companies, and workers over the course of U.S. history have been enormous.” Has BeensCoursesSocialCompanyEconomicImpactWorkersEnormousInnovativeResearchers Author:Robert Hormats
“Bring on those tired, labor-plagued, competition-weary companies and ESOP will breathe new life into them. They will find ESOP better than Geritol. It will revitalize what is wrong with capitalism. It will increase productivity. It will improve labor relations. It will promote economic justice. It will save the economic system. It will make our form of government and our concept of freedom prevail over those who don't agree with us.” WisdomGovernmentFormPoliticsJusticeCompanyEconomyEconomicConceptsCapitalismLaborIncreaseRelationAgreeTiredCompetitionBreatheProductivityLiberalismWearyNew LifeForms Of GovernmentEconomic SystemsEconomic JusticeEsops Author:Russell B. Long
“Many of the deficiencies of our economic system could be alleviated if ways were found to broaden the ownership of the means of production... This has happened in some companies through ESOPs. Successful approaches of this sort would pay dividends in terms of employee commitment and morale. And they would not deprive anyone of his present holdings since they are based on future growth.” IfsWayMeanWisdomFoundPoliticsGrowthTermPayCompanyEconomySuccessfulHappenedEconomicApproachCommitmentProductionsLiberalismEmployeeOwnershipDeficiencyEconomic SystemsMoraleDividendsFuture GrowthEsops Author:John D. Rockefeller
“We have built a company with a business mix and operating system that will allow us to deliver record results in any foreseeable economic climate, ... We have just completed a very successful management transition and I've never been more confident about the company's future.” InspirationalResultsCompanySuccessfulRecordsEconomicBuiltManagementClimateTransitionOperating SystemsEconomic Climate Author:Jack Welch
“The start of the New Year is a perfect time to start a stop doing list and to make this the cornerstone of your New Year resolutions, be it for your company, your family or yourself. It also is a perfect time to clarify your three circles, mirroring at a personal level the three questions... 1) What are you deeply passionate about? 2) What are you are genetically encoded for - what activities do you feel just "made to do"? 3) What makes economic sense - what can you make a living at?” FeelsYearsMadeThreePerfectLevelsBusinessCompanyEconomicActivityPassionateListsCirclesOur FamilyResolutionNew YearCornerstonesNew Years ResolutionMirroringFeels Just Author:James C. Collins
“I'm fundamentally not interested in the Fortune 500 companies - in US, Mexico, anywhere. The real backbones of economic growth are small and medium businesses.” RealGrowthCompanyEconomicFortuneMediumsMexicoNot InterestedEconomic GrowthBackbone Author:Tom Peters
“When I look at founders and CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook and Brian Chesky at Airbnb and Sebastian Thrun at Udacity, these are companies that are creating extraordinary social good and extraordinary economic and educational empowerment, all within with context of a for-profit model.” LooksSocialCompanyEconomicCreatingModelsEmpowermentMarkExtraordinaryProfitEducationalFoundersCeoBrianSocial GoodZuckerbergAirbnb Author:Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
“A very high fraction of America's economic problems come not from our difficulties with education or globalization or competition with the Chinese or whatever. But they come from the fact that a small number of wealthy and powerful people who run dangerous and/or inefficient companies are able, through the use of money in the political process, to prevent the government from regulating them properly.” PeopleFactsUseProblemGovernmentRunningAbleAmericaPoliticalProcessPowerfulNumbersCompanyEconomicDangerousDifficultyCompetitionChineseWealthyGlobalizationFractionsSmall NumbersEconomic Problems Author:Charles Ferguson
“The foundation of Ontario's economy is our skilled workers and innovative companies. Our government will continue its proactive approach to partnering with business and industry, investing strategically to help companies grow and create jobs in this period of economic uncertainty.” HelpingGovernmentJobsGrowsCompanyEconomyEconomicIndustryPeriodsApproachFoundationWorkersInvestingUncertaintyInnovativeProactiveOntarioSkilled WorkersPartnering Author:Brad Duguid
“We don't measure whether an economy is developing. We just measure whether companies are selling more, whether inventories are up or down, not whether the health, safety and economic well-being of people are being advanced.” PeopleWellsCompanyEconomyEconomicSafetySellingDevelopingWell BeingInventorySelling More Author:Ralph Nader
“...countries don't create economies. It is entrepreneurs and companies that create and revitalize economies. The role of the governments should be to create a nourishing environment for entrepreneurs and companies to flourish, not to get in the way of economic development.” WayShouldCountryGovernmentCompanyRolesEconomyEnvironmentEconomicDevelopmentEntrepreneurEconomic Development Author:John Naisbitt