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 Copy Share Image
A competitive world offers two possibilities. You can lose. Or, if you want to win, you can change. — Lester Thurow Copy Share Image
“Probably no country has ever had as large a shift in the distribution of wealth [as what we've seen in the U.S. in the… — Lester Thurow Copy Share Image
We've believed for 50 years that the Japanese are small Americans who wanted to be like us. They are not. — Lester Thurow Copy Share Image
Change requires individuals who recognize that new things can be done and who take the initiative to get them done ... The existing bureaucracies,… — Lester Thurow Copy Share Image
Natural resources have dropped out of the competitive equation. In fact, a lack of natural resources may even be an advantage. Because the industries… — Lester Thurow Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The old foundations of success are gone ... The world's wealthiest man, Bill Gates, owns nothing tangible: no land, no gold or oil, no… — Lester Thurow Copy Share Image
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… — Lester Thurow Copy Share Image
There is nothing antithetical in American history, culture, or traditions to teamwork. Teams were important in America's history - wagon trains conquered the West,… — Lester Thurow Copy Share Image
“No country without a revolution or a military defeat and subsequent occupation has ever experienced such a sharp a shift in the distribution of… — Lester Thurow Copy Share Image
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… — Lester Thurow Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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