“In this age of electronic money, investors are no longer seduced by a financial 'dance of a thousand veils.' Only hard and accurate information on reserves, current accounts, and monetary and fiscal conditions will keep capital from fleeing precipitously at the first sign of trouble.” FirstsHardAgeTroubleConditionsInformationThousandAccountsFinancialCurrentsInvestorsAccurateReservesVeilsMonetaryFleeingAccurate Information Author:Lawrence Summers
“If the word is not dead when it reaches the hearer, he murders it at once by a contradiction, a stipulation, a condition, a digression, an interruption, and all the thousand tricks of conversation.” IfsConditionsThousandConversationMurderTricksContradictionInterruptionsStipulations Book:Maxims and Reflections Source: Maxims and Reflections
“I love studying folklore and legends. The stories that people passed down for a thousand years without any sort of marketing support are obviously saying something appealing about the basic human condition.” PeopleYearsHumansStoriesSupportStudyConditionsThousandMarketingLegendsHuman ConditionThousand YearsFolklore Author:Tim Schafer
“The sensory ratios that are being reinforced by the new electronic technology are like the sensory ratios that were in place fifteen thousand years ago. . . . Print imposes a condition on human mind which is now lifting.” YearsMindHumansTechnologyConditionsThousandYears AgoPrintHuman MindFifteenThousand YearsLiftingSensoryRatios Author:Terence McKenna