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You can't fuel real economic growth with indiscriminate credit. You can only fuel it with well-allocated, long-term investment. — James Surowiecki
A long-term crisis, after a certain point, no longer seems like a crisis. It seems like the way things are. — James Surowiecki
What the investment community does like is short-term measures designed to boost share prices. — James Surowiecki
Being out of a job can erode people's confidence and their sense of possibility; and employers, often unfairly, tend to take long-term unemployment as a… — James Surowiecki
In terms of productivity - that is, how much a worker produces in an hour - there's little difference between the U.S., France, and Germany.… — James Surowiecki
What corporations fear is the phenomenon now known, rather inelegantly, as 'commoditization.' What the term means is simply the conversion of the market for a… — James Surowiecki
When Americans are asked to rank professions in terms of honesty and ethics, insurance agents routinely end up near the bottom of the list -… — James Surowiecki
Some argue we should get coal, oil and gas out of the ground as quickly as possible, build more pipelines and make as much money… — David Suzuki
Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful… — Thomas Szasz
'Prop trading' is just a fancy term for banks gambling in the market for their own profit. — Matt Taibbi
The failure to work out sensible budgets makes it impossible for government agencies to make long-term plans, and instead leaves them scrambling to spend money… — Matt Taibbi
I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
What I would like to do is to leave behind a sustainable entity of a set of companies that operate in an exemplary manner in… — Ratan Tata
Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and what's not. — James Taylor
I know there are people who don't like their audience or like the experience of being recognized or celebrated, but my audience has been very… — James Taylor
In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe… — Twyla Tharp
I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it… — Twyla Tharp
Everyone with a cell phone thinks they're a photographer. Everyone with a laptop thinks they're a journalist. But they have no training, and they have… — Helen Thomas
In Plains, I saw Jimmy Carter as he really is - a nice, decent man... in terms of compassionate contribution to society, he certainly has… — Helen Thomas
'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble. — Hunter S. Thompson

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