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By establishing affiliates in Europe, American firms could leap over tariffs, get their goods to market faster, and adapt them to local taste.
Adrian Wooldridge • The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea (Modern Library Chronicles Series Book 12)
“What is bloated beyond its proportions inevitably collapses.… What is concentrated, coherent, and connected to its past has power. What is dissipated, divided, and distended rots and falls to the ground. The bigger it bloats, the harder it falls.” —ROBERT GREENE AND JOOST ELFFERS, The 48 Laws of Power1
James Dale Davidson, Lord William Rees-Mogg • The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
“The Evolution of Altruistic Behavior.”
James Dale Davidson, Lord William Rees-Mogg • The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
Neoliberalismus
Andreas Vlach • 1 card
The Hotel Aviz became the permanent home of the financial refugee, Calouste Gulbenkian, known as Mr. Five Percent for the share of oil wealth that accrued to him from deals across the Middle East.
Neill Lochery • Lisbon
If you fail to transcend conventional thinking at a time when conventional thinking is losing touch with reality, then you will be more likely to fall prey to an epidemic of disorientation that lies ahead. Disorientation breeds mistakes that could threaten your business, your investments, and your way of life.
James Dale Davidson, Lord William Rees-Mogg • The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
Australia is a house of cards. We are confident the bubble will burst and that it will be spectacular, but we do not know what will provide the spark. This brings us back to our fingers of instability metaphor we introduced in Chapter 2: We know it takes only one grain of sand to trigger the avalanche; we just don’t know which one.