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Here, we conclude with a few of the strategic insights that we find most instructive from this quiet, articulate, supremely confident, yet remarkably modest man from whom we have learned so much.
Graham Allison, Ali Wyne, Robert D. Blackwill, Henry A. Kissinger • Lee Kuan Yew
Morgan Housel • Makes You Think
What is of value in “England” and “America” and worth defending is its tradition of freedom—the guarantee of its vitality. Our civilization, like the Greek, has, for all its blundering way, taught the value of freedom, of criticism of authority—and of harmonizing this with order. Anyone who urges a different system, for efficiency's sake, is betray
... See moreB.H. Liddell Hart • Why Don't We Learn from History?
Growth, it turns out, often doesn’t correlate with maximizing shareholder value.
William Thorndike • The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success
I believe that one ought to have only as much market efficiency as one needs, because everything that we value in human life is within the realm of inefficiency—love, family, attachment, community, culture, old habits, comfortable old shoes.
– Edward Luttwak
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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
There is nothing so unstable as a stabilized price level. James Grant, 2014
Edward Chancellor • The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest
The President blamed their hubris – ‘Those sons of bitches with all the fruit salad just sat there nodding, saying it would work’ – and repeatedly told his wife, ‘Oh my God, the bunch of advisors that we inherited!’ But he saved the greatest blame for himself. The advisors were just that – merely advisors – and the ultimate decision was his. He’d b
... See moreAlex Edmans • May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics, and Studies Exploit Our Biases—And What We Can Do about It
and those technocrats who must be disrupted in order to rebuild an efficient government and public life.