“Cold-turkey deficit reduction would cause a significant recession. A recent analysis by the Congressional Budget Office estimated that going headlong over the cliff would cause our gross domestic product, which has been growing at an annual rate of around 2 percent, to fall at a rate of 2.9 percent in the first half of 2013.” FirstsHas BeensFallCausesHalfGrowingProductsColdOfficePercentRateSignificantBudgetsAnalysisGrossDeficitTurkeysCliffsReductionRecessionsAnnualsGross Domestic ProductCold Turkey Author:Christina Romer
“Ours is the country where, in order to sell your product, you don't so much point out its merits as you first work like hell to sell yourself.” FirstsCountryOrderHellProductsSellsMerit Author:Louis Kronenberger
“Somebody once told me, ‘Manage the top line, and the bottom line will follow.’ What's the top line? It's things like, why are we doing this in the first place? What's our strategy? What are customers saying? How responsive are we? Do we have the best products and the best people? Those are the kind of questions you have to focus on.” PeopleFirstsKindLinesFocusProductsStrategyBottomCustomersManageBottom Line Book:Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs
“Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.” PeopleFirstsDesignProducts Author:Tara Hunt
“Whereas Freud was for the most part concerned with the morbid effects of unconscious repression, Jung was more interested in the manifestations of unconscious expression, first in the dream and eventually in all the more orderly products of religion and art and morals.” FirstsArtDreamMoralEffectsExpressionProductsConcernedManifestationUnconsciousRepressionOrderlyMorbidJungReligion And Art Author:Lewis Mumford