“We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama up this week? Is he down? And is his leadership style more like Bill Clinton's, or Abraham Lincoln's?” KnowsWantGovernmentLeaderOpinionWeekStreetsStyleWallIndustryDown AndBillsClintonDisappearFirmUnemploymentInterventionAbrahamUnprecedentedGovernment InterventionLeadership StyleOpinion Leaders Author:Thomas Frank
“But at some point, you know that - you know what poem keeps going through my mind is, "first they came for the Jews." People, all of us, are like, "Well, this news doesn't really affect me." "Well, I'm not a bondholder." "Well, I'm not in the banking industry." "Well, I'm not a big CEO." "Well, I'm not on Wall Street." "Well, I'm not a car dealer." "I'm not an auto worker." Gang, at some point, they're going to come for you!” PeopleKnowsMindFirstsWellsBigsStreetsCarWallIndustryNewsWorkersJewKeep GoingCeoBankingGangDealerCar Dealer Author:Glenn Beck
“My best decision was to choose to go to Wall Street over law. I learned a lot and focused on the expanding software industry at a time when the independent software industry was just beginning.” LawDecisionStreetsWallIndustryIndependentFocusedSoftwareExpanding Author:Safra A. Catz
“People assume Wall Street is a certain culture and tech is a certain culture. But if you look at the (gender) numbers at the top of (those) industries, they don't vary very much. I think in finance, women hold 19 percent of the top jobs, and women are 21 percent of the leaders in nonprofits.” PeopleIfsThinkingLooksJobsCertainCultureNumbersLeaderStreetsWallIndustryPercentAssumingGenderFinanceVaryNonprofits Author:Sheryl Sandberg
“Something I notice speaking to writers from south of Hadrians Wall is that the culture is different. At base, I think Scotland values its creative industries differently from England.” ThinkingDifferentValuesCultureCreativeWallIndustryEnglandSouthScotlandHadrianCreative Industries Author:Sara Sheridan
“The financial services industry has seemed to treat the crisis like a little rainfall - inconvenient, but no significant changes needed. The real question moving forward is how the industry will respond to Wall Street reform and growing public anger.” LittlesRealMovingGrowingStreetsWallIndustryNeededTreatsCrisisFinancialSignificantMoving ForwardReformInconvenientReal QuestionsRainfallSignificant ChangeFinancial ServicesService Industry Author:Elizabeth Warren
“The control is shifting because of the democratisation of the internet. My industry is very good at building walls to stop people getting in.” PeopleBuildingWallIndustryInternetVery GoodShiftingBuilding Walls Author:Kevin Spacey
“A good rule of thumb is as follows: If the numbers come from somebody wearing a tie (Wall Street economist or analyst, industry public relations department, captive think tank academic and so on), you ought to be very skeptical. By design messages from these people are intended to move markets, move merchandise and/or move public policy and are not a comment on the state of the physical universe.” PeopleIfsThinkingStatesMovingUniverseNumbersStreetsPolicyDesignWallIndustryOughtMessagesRelationTiesDepartmentCommentAcademicEconomistSkepticalTanksThumbsCaptivesPublic RelationsPublic PolicyAnalystsMerchandise Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“It's basically me saying to the industry that I won't work within the walls in hip-hop. I want to put a twist on things, and that's what that song is all about. It's about putting a twist on stereotypes.” WantSongWallIndustryHip HopHipsHopsStereotypeTwists Author:SonReal
“Look at what I am proposing, and we [wih Bernie Sanders] have a vigorous agreement here. We both want to reign in the excesses of Wall Street. I also want to reign in the excesses of Johnson Controls that we bailed out when they were an autoparts company, and we saved the auto industry, and now they want to avoid paying taxes.” WantLooksCompanyStreetsWallIndustryTaxesSavedAgreementExcessReignJohnsonVigorousPaying TaxesAuto Industry Author:Hillary Clinton
“I think some industries are so far behind the rest of humanity, in the way they see characters and cast shows. Once those walls get broken down, it changes everything.” ThinkingWayCharacterShowsHumanityBehindsBrokenWallIndustryCastsBroken Down Author:Josh Groban
“For each of my novels, I've had something of a eureka moment of deciding what world I want to set it in - Wall Street, the pop-music industry, Harvard - and what the very vague contours of the narrative might be (which typically get changed a lot through the writing process).” WorldWantWritingMomentsMightProcessNovelStreetsChangedWallIndustryPopsNarrativeVagueWriting ProcessHarvardPop MusicMusic Industry Author:Teddy Wayne
“There's one other element I just want to be sure to mention here: that is that there are 43 million young people who are locked into predatory student loan debt for whom there is no way out in the foreseeable future given the economy that we have: this predatory Wall Street driven financialized low-wage service industry economy.” PeopleWayWantYoungGivenMillionsEconomyStreetsStudentsWallIndustryElementsLowsDebtDrivenLockedLoanPredatoryStudent LoanService Industry Author:Jill Stein
“You cannot be a party which takes money from Wall Street, which is not strong on the pharmaceutical industry, which is ripping us off every day, which is not strong on health care in taking on the insurance companies, which has not shown a desire to stand up and fight the economic establishment, and then tell working families that you are on their side. People see through that.” PeopleCareDesireFightingStrongSidesPartyCompanyEconomicStreetsWallIndustryHealth CareEstablishmentInsurance CompaniesPharmaceuticalNot StrongPharmaceutical Industry Author:Bernie Sanders