A competitive world offers two possibilities. You can lose. Or, if you want to win, you can change. — Lester Thurow Business 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.… — Lester Thurow War 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 Business Copy Share Image
Change requires individuals who recognize that new things can be done and who take the initiative to get them done ... The… — Lester Thurow Bureaucracy 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… — Lester Thurow Advantage 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… — Lester Thurow 21st century 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… — Lester Thurow Bills 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… — Lester Thurow Advantage 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… — Lester Thurow Activity 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… — Lester Thurow Failure 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… — Lester Thurow Assumption 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… — Lester Thurow Difficult Copy Share Image
Economists are always recommending the elimination of this or that market imperfection ... no astrophysicist recommends the elimination of planets that he… — Lester Thurow Doe Copy Share Image
Without entrepreneurs, economies become poor and weak. The old will not exist, the new can't enter — Lester Thurow Business Copy Share Image
Major investment decisions have become too important to be left to the private sector. — Lester Thurow Decision Copy Share Image
