Sylvia Ostry quotes
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“One must be wary of the view that these loose and diverse coalitions represent a new form of globalized participatory democracy. The dissent industry is largely a product of the Internet revolution. Inexpensive, borderless, real-time networking provides advocacy non-governmental organizations [NGOs] with economies of scale and also of scope by linking widely disparate groups with one common theme.”
-- Sylvia Ostry
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“God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.”
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“Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.”
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“Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.”
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“Economists who speak the English tongue are strangely intimidated by mathematical symbols.”
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“Over the long term, absent of other barriers, economics always win.”
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“The analyses ... often become too competent to be comprehensible...”
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“How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?”
Source : Remarks at American Enterprise Institute dinner, Washington, D.C., 5 Dec. 1996
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