Sylvia Ostry famous quotes

We have one asset, and that's people.
-- Sylvia Ostry

#People #Economics #Assets

One must be wary of the view that these loose and diverse coalitions represent a new form of globalized participatory democracy. The dissent industry is largely a product of the Internet revolution. Inexpensive, borderless, real-time networking provides advocacy non-governmental organizations [NGOs] with economies of scale and also of scope by linking widely disparate groups with one common theme.
-- Sylvia Ostry

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God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.

My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.

Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.

Economists who speak the English tongue are strangely intimidated by mathematical symbols.

"Murphys law of economic policy": Economists have the least influence on policy where they know the most and are most agreed; they have the most influence on policy where they know the least and disagree most vehemently.

Over the long term, absent of other barriers, economics always win.

The analyses ... often become too competent to be comprehensible...

How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?

The hardware business is all about per-unit manufacturing cost and functionality. The services business is less asset-intensive and more dependent on people.