Thurow Quotes

#1. AT&T invented the cellular telephone, but saw no future in it. It takes entrepreneurs, who are angels of destruction, to take advantage of things which the inventor cannot or does not see.

Lester Thurow

#2. Once again, I was reminded that Tally was the prettiest girl I'd ever met, and when she smiled at me my mind went blank. Once you've seen a pretty girl naked, you feel a certain attachment to her.

John Grisham

#3. Being close to nature, in general, helps boost a child's attention span.

Richard Louv

#4. If a group of people has no sense where they came from-it is difficult for them to have a sense where they should go.

Lester Thurow

#5. What is it that's taken hold of me, for me to carry on like this in relentless pursuit of something beyond my powers?

Claude Monet

#6. Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too mad.

Ice-T

#7. Natural resources have dropped out of the competitive equation. In fact, a lack of natural resources may even be an advantage. Because the industries we are competing for - the industries of the future - are all based on brainpower.

Lester Thurow

#8. Slow, skinny, and an utter countryside coward: I lived in dread of nettles, spiders, and the very sound of a wasp. As a victim, I was beneath the dignity of the bullies in my year but fair game to the ones in the year below.

Robert Webb

#9. We must learn from our struggles.

Roger Thurow

#10. We've believed for 50 years that the Japanese are small Americans who wanted to be like us. They are not.

Lester Thurow

#11. Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.

Karl Kraus

#12. One of the peculiarities of economics is that it still rests on a behavioral assumption-rational utility maximization-that has long since been rejected by sociologists and psychologists.

Lester Thurow

#13. Change requires individuals who recognize that new things can be done and who take the initiative to get them done ... The existing bureaucracies, public and private, will not take on the job of changing what is.

Lester Thurow

#14. Without entrepreneurs, economies become poor and weak. The old will not exist, the new can't enter

Lester Thurow

#15. Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.

Berenice Abbott

#16. Economists are always recommending the elimination of this or that market imperfection ... no astrophysicist recommends the elimination of planets that he does not like.

Lester Thurow

#17. There is no reason we should expect young children to enter the nocturnal darkness of sleep and dreams without help.

Siri Hustvedt

#18. Every host in Hollywood has made that mistake: "Let's invite some comedy writers to the party! That'll brighten things up." Sure ... till the paramedics arrive.

Robert McKee

#19. Maybe there's a computer down in the basement," she said, "and we need to keep punching the numbers in.

Peter Clines

#20. love is the strongest emotion. we never feels the distance. even at large distances apart from each other, both lovers will feel the closeness always.

Joseph Mathew

#21. We normally think that theist religions sanctified the great gods. We tend to forget that they sanctified humans, too. Hitherto Homo sapiens had been just one actor in a cast of thousands. In the new theist drama, Sapiens became the central hero around whom the entire universe revolved.

Yuval Noah Harari

#22. The old foundations of success are gone ... The world's wealthiest man, Bill Gates, owns nothing tangible: no land, no gold or oil, no factories ... For the first time in history the world's wealthiest man owns only knowledge.

Lester Thurow

#23. Technology and Ideology are shaking the foundations of 21st century capitalism. Technology is making skills and knowledge the only sources of sustainable strategic advantage.

Lester Thurow

#24. A competitive world offers two possibilities. You can lose. Or, if you want to win, you can change.

Lester Thurow

#25. Wit thou well that I will not live long after thy days.

Thomas Malory