"The idea of entrepreneurship applies as much in politics, religion, society and the arts as it does in business."

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Source : Geoff Mulgan (2015). “The Locust and the Bee: Predators and Creators in Capitalism's Future”, p.12, Princeton University Press

Geoff Mulgan

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“What! Did Sir W[alter] R[aleigh] believe that a male and female ounce (and, if so, why not two tigers and lions, etc?) would have produced, in a course of generations, a cat, or a cat a lion? This is Darwinizing with a vengeance.”
“If you ask what keeps me up at night, it's the pressure in the system forcing us to do all sorts of things. Content, data and technology are forcing us to think about business in a very different way.”
“I am generally way out of touch with trends, except now and then I am surprised to find myself leading one, like sympathetic vampires.”
“For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.”
“It is curious for one who studies the action and reaction of national literature on each other, to see the humor of Swift and Sterne and Fielding, after filtering through Richter, reappear in Carlyle with a tinge of Germanism that makes it novel, alien, or even displeasing, as the case may be, to the English mind.”
“If you're so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances.”
“We cannot leap into world government through one quick step.... The precondition for eventual and genuine globalization is progressive regionalization because by that we move toward larger, more stable, more cooperative units.”
“Let's face it, we're not about to earn our way to wealth. That's a mistake millions of Americans make. We think that if we work harder, smarter, longer, we'll achieve our financial dreams, but our paycheck alone-no matter how big-isn't the answer.”

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