Business Quote by Thomas Frank

“The late 1960s and the early 1970s were in fact a daunting time for corporate America and for those living off great corporate fortunes.…

— Jane Mayer

The '80s was a really creative and brave period. Remember, it was a period of ultraconservatism, and so you needed brave people to push…

— Cyndi Lauper

The great successes of the modern environmental movement in the '60s and '70s had laid the seeds of their failure in the early years…

— Ted Nordhaus

“Positive legacy of the 1960s was the revolutions in civil rights, women’s rights, children’s rights, and gay rights, which began to consolidate power in…

— Steven Pinker

“Think of this: Hundreds of people today are doing things that not a single one of the them would have dared to do at…

— Václav Havel

As social values shifted through the '80s and '90s, as modern conservatism rose to power, and as the electorate became a good deal more…

— Ted Nordhaus

In the 1970s the government propped up managers who couldn't run their industries properly. Nowadays they prop up our lousy managers who can't run…

— Harry Enfield

The dreams of the 1960s began to disappear in the 1970s. The economy collapsed, and so did the optimism of the Metabolists.

— Toyo Ito

“In the late 1970s, growth in Western economies began to slow down and returns on capital began to decline. Governments came under pressure to…

— Jason Hickel

On the environment and climate change, I suspect that future generations will think there was too much timidity, too much fear of upsetting business.…

— Geoff Mulgan

“If you were born in 1950 and were in the top ten percent, everything got better for twenty years automatically. Then, after the late…

— George Packer

The mistrust of government that blossomed in the late '60s has become a chronic and in some ways pathological condition.

— Kurt Andersen