“Career is the stringing together of opportunities and jobs. Mix in public opinion and past regrets. Add a dash of future panic and a whole lot of financial uncertainty. Career is something that fools you into thinking you are in control and then takes pleasure in reminding you that you aren't. Career is the thing that will not fill you up and will never make you truly whole.” ThinkingWholeTogetherJobsPastOpportunityPleasureOpinionCareersRegretFoolAnxietyAddFinancialUncertaintyPanicPublic OpinionRemindingPast Regrets Book:Yes Please Source: Yes Please
“Looking past the immediate crisis, a more resilient system must be built on stronger and better designed shock absorbers, both in the major institutions and in the infrastructure of the financial system.” PastMajorsBuiltStrongerCrisisInstitutionsFinancialShockInfrastructureResilientFinancial SystemShock Absorber Author:Timothy Geithner
“As financial markets continue to broaden and deepen, the behavior of asset prices will play an important role in the formulation of monetary policy going forward, perhaps a more important role than in the past.” ImportantPlayPastRolesPolicyBehaviorInvestingFinancialAssetsMonetaryFinancial MarketsMonetary Policy Author:Timothy Geithner
“As the United States continues its slow but steady recovery from the depths of the financial crisis, nobody actually wants a massive austerity package to shock the economy back into recession, and so the odds have always been high that the game of budgetary chicken will stop short of disaster. Looming past the cliff, however, is a deep chasm that poses a much greater challenge -- the retooling of the country's economy, society, and government necessary for the United States to perform effectively in the twenty-first century.” WantFirstsCountryStatesGovernmentPastGamesChallengesUnitedUnited StatesEconomyGreaterCenturyTwentiesCrisisDepthFinancialDisasterRecoveryShockMassiveChickensSteadyOddsPackagesCliffsRecessionsFinancial CrisisChasmsAusterityLooming Author:Fareed Zakaria
“A striking feature of financial service activities during the past few decades is that the financial transactions essential to the operation of the 'real' economy has become increasingly dwarfed by speculative activity.” RealPastEconomyActivityEssentialsFinancialDecadesFeaturesOperationsTransactionsFinancial Services Book:Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century Source: Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century