Lester Thurow Quotes

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

  Lester Thurow

  Inspiración, motivación, cambio

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• 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.

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  Jobs, Done, Initiative

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• There is nothing antithetical in American history, culture, or traditions to teamwork. Teams were important in America's history - wagon trains conquered the West, men working together on the assembly line in American industry conquered the world, a successful national strategy and a lot of teamwork put an American on the moon first (and thus fare, last). But American mythology extols only the individual...In America, halls of fame exist for almost every conceivable activity, but nowhere do Americans raise monuments in praise of teamwork.

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  Teamwork, Successful, Moon

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• Una de las peculiaridades de la economía es que sigue basándose en un supuesto de comportamiento -la maximización de la utilidad racional- que hace tiempo que rechazaron sociólogos y psicólogos.

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  Long, Assumption, Economics

  Lester C. Thurow (1984). “Dangerous currents: the state of economics”, Vintage

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• 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.

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  Men, Land, Oil

  Lester C. Thurow (2009). “Building Wealth: The New Rules for Individuals, Companies, and Nations in a Knowledge-Based Economy”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• La tecnología y la ideología están sacudiendo los cimientos del capitalismo del siglo XXI. La tecnología está convirtiendo las habilidades y el conocimiento en las únicas fuentes de ventaja estratégica sostenible.

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  Technology, Skills, Foundation

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• 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.

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  Thinking, May, Facts

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

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  Entrepreneur, Economy, Poor

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• 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.

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  Pensamiento, Personas, Grupos

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• Major investment decisions have become too important to be left to the private sector.

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  Decision, Important, Investment

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• 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.

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  Angel, Entrepreneur, Doe

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

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  Business, Years, Wanted

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• 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

  Imperfection, Doe, Elimination

  Lester C. Thurow (1984). “Dangerous currents: the state of economics”, Vintage

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