"Our company has only been active in Beijing and Shanghai, two very market-dominated cities. This was an advantage. Land is purchased here in public auctions, in a transparent way. When you do real estate development outside Beijing and Shanghai it is good to have "guanxi" - good relations within the local government."

-- Zhang Xin

#Real Quotes #Government Quotes #Land Quotes

“This nation, this generation, in this hour has man's first chance to build a Great Society, a place where the meaning of man's life matches the marvels of man's labor.”
“She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.”
“How can one change one's entire life and build a new one on one moment of love? And yet, that's what you make me want to close my eyes and do.”
“Life's inevitable changes are like a compulsory roller-coaster ride. You can cower and shut your eyes tight, or you can exult in the thrills.”

Source : Roger Crawford (1999). “How High Can You Bounce?: Turn Setbacks Into Comebacks”, Bantam
“Often it is tenacity, not talent, that rules the day.”
“It seems like everywhere I go I can't get real love.”
“Despite our complicated civilization, so called, or perhaps on account of it, we are all of us a mere set of barbarians, who find it less trouble to provide a new, cheap, and shoddy thing than to get the full use and full pleasure out of a finely-made and carefully-chosen old one.”

Source : Vernon Lee (1904). “Hortus vitae : essays on the garden of life”
“I'm disappointed. I played my heart out and it didn't work.”

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