"The Golden Straitjacket is the defining political-economic garment of globalization. [...] The tighter you wear it, the more gold it produces."

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Thomas Friedman

#Political Quotes #Gold Quotes #Defining Quotes

“It is easier to disrupt consumer finance. It is much harder to disrupt institutional finance, Wall Street. It is very heavily regulated, and because it is institutional finance, you are dealing with incumbents.”
“Imagination is a valuable asset in business and she has a sister, Understanding, who also serves. Together they make a splendid team and business problems dissolve and the impossible is accomplished by their ministrations.... Imagination concerning the world's wants and the individual's needs should be the Alpha and Omega of self-education.”
“It was dark and raining, with bad visibility, but this was Jersey, and we don't slow down for anything.”
“gravity, n. I imagine you saved my life. And then I wonder if I'm just imagining it.”
“Your present challenges or limitations cannot stop you from becoming what God has ordained you to be.”
“Families are great murderers of the creative impulsive, particularly husbands.”
“If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.”
“I grew up in the prolonged survival of the great age of the horse, with harness and saddle and sleigh bells and horse pictures, not as antiques but the facts of our lives.”

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