"It may not be replicable: One of the hardest transition that a developing country can make is the transition to middle-class status. Governments have to let go, people start insisting on following their own lights, etc."

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Source : Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. December 17, 2012.

Charles R. Morris

#Letting Go Quotes #Country Quotes #Light Quotes

“There's always that fear of your own head and the things you're going to think.”
“I love to sleep. I'd sleep all day if I could.”
“It is the most astonishing thing that persons who have not sufficient education to spell correctly, to punctuate properly, to place capital letters in the right places, should, when other means of support fail, send mss. for publication.”
“There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect.”
“Family: the most important thing of all. My siblings may drive me crazy at times but they are my blood. Theyâ€™re all Iâ€™ve known. My family is me. They are my life. Without them I walk the planet alone. Forbidden, Tabitha Suzuma”
“Be a Mother who is committed to loving her children into standing on higher ground than the environment surrounding them. Mothers are endowed with a love that is unlike any other love on the face of the earth.”
“For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane.”
“Never have anyone else carry your luggage. Pack only what you need.”

Source : Karen Finerman (2013). “Finerman's Rules: Secrets I'd Only Tell My Daughters About Business and Life”, p.49, Hachette UK

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