Panic at the thought of doing a thing is a challenge to do it.
~ Henry S. Haskins
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Category Archives: 1947 – Quote, Unquote
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A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people’s weaknesses rather than on their strengths.
~ Peter Drucker
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The spontaneous individual optimization that drives the theories with which I began is important, but it is not enough by itself. If spontaneous Coase‐style bargains, whether through laissez-faire or political bargaining and government, eliminated socially wasteful predation and obtained the institutions that are needed for a thriving market economy, then there would not be so many grossly inefficient and poverty-stricken societies.
― Mancur Olson
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Panic at the thought of doing a thing is a challenge to do it.
― Henry S. Haskins
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To say a situation is ‘lost’ or hopeless is in one sense equivalent to saying it is perfect, for in both cases efforts at improvement can bring no positive results.
― Mancur Olson
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Thoughts left unsaid are never wasted.
~ Henry S. Haskins
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Distributional coalitions slow down a society’s capacity to adopt new technologies and to reallocate resources in response to changing conditions, and thereby reduce the rate of economic growth.
― Mancur Olson
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Panic at the thought of doing a thing is a challenge to do it.
― Henry S. Haskins
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People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
~ Peter Drucker
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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.
~ Franz Kafka
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