"Trickle-down economics - it didn't work. The whole idea was supply-side economics: give rich people a lot of money; they'll spend it, it'll go into the economy. Here's what we found out - rich people, really good at keeping all the money. That's how they got rich. If you want it in the economy, give it to the poor people. You know what they're really good at? Spending all their money."

-- Greg Fitzsimmons

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“It's like being in love, discovering your best friend.”

Source : Elizabeth Wein (2012). “Code Name Verity”, p.64, Egmont UK
“I feel comfortable in the presence of oddity. Probably because I'm a little bit odd.”
“It is in the highest interests of the devil to persuade the world that religious people are disagreeable.”
“The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.”
“Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.”
“An average person who develops the habit of setting clear priorities and getting important tasks completed quickly will run circles around a genius who talks a lot and makes wonderful plans but gets very little done.”
“Wishes of one's old life wither and shrivel like old leaves if they are not replaced with new wishes when the world changes. And the world always changes. Wishes get slimy, and their colors fade, and soon they are just mud, like all the rest of the mud, and not wishes at all, but regrets. The trouble is, not everyone can tell when they ought to launder their wishes. Even when one finds oneself in Fairyland and not at home at all, it is not always so easy to remember to catch the world in it's changing and change with it.”
“Many good American companies have respect for individuals, and practice Kaizen and other TPS {Toyota Production System} tools. But what is important is having all of the elements together as a system. It must be practiced every day in a very consistent mannerâ€“not in spurtsâ€“in a concrete way on the shop floor.”

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