Michael Strong quotes

“Technology, including Zaadz, will allow us to evade the jerks far more than we could before. The technology-based social responsibility movement, broadly construed, will allow us to return to some extent to the moral monitoring of small villages.”
-- Michael Strong

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“Silicon Valley, "the largest legal creation of wealth in history," was built largely by unprofessional amateurs using math, sand, and the institutions of freedom. The Soviet Union had the greatest mathematicians on earth, and plenty of sand, but without the institutions of freedom their brilliant mathematicians were not empowered to create those devices that are changing the world.”
-- Michael Strong

Source : Michael Strong, John Mackey (2009). “Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World?s Problems”, p.60, John Wiley and Sons

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“Creativity is not merely about cute pictures drawn by kindergartners. It is about the ability to create new enterprises, organizations, and institutions that fundamentally change society.”
-- Michael Strong

Source : Michael Strong, John Mackey (2009). “Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World?s Problems”, p.56, John Wiley and Sons

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“Suppose hypothetically that one out of every 200 people or so is a jerk. In today's world these jerks will discover that if they enter government or business they can become super rich and powerful jerks. Do we conclude, therefore, that markets (or government) have caused greed? No, the fact is that once we no longer live in tiny tribes of 200, anonymity allows some people, who would have been ***** in a small tribe but who would have been sanctioned there, to go off and become jerks on a much, much larger scale.”
-- Michael Strong

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“Dubai was brilliant, they looked around the world. They saw Hong Kong, Singapore, New York, Chicago, Sydney, London all ran British common law. British common law is much better for commerce than is French common law or sharia law. So they took 110 acres of Dubai soil, put British common law with a British judge in charge, and they went from an empty piece of soil to the 16th most powerful financial center in [the] world in eight years.”
-- Michael Strong

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“An unreflective passion for social justice may be one of the biggest obstacles to creating peace and prosperity in the 21st century. While there are most certainly factory owners in China whom we would rightly regard as criminal in their treatment of their workers, it is very important not to confuse these incidents with the phenomenon of globalization. It is a good thing that Wal-Mart is encouraging more humane standards in its supplier's factories.”
-- Michael Strong

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“When a Krishna Conscious person is elevated to a responsible position, he never becomes puffed up. Just like a tree when over-laden with fruits becomes humble and lower down. Similarly, a great soul in Krishna Consciousness becomes humbler than the grass and bowed down like the fruitful trees because a Krishna Conscious person acts as the agent of Krishna, therefore he discharges his duty with great responsibility.”

“Equality is the heart and essence of democracy, freedom, and justice, equality of opportunity in industry, in labor unions, schools and colleges, government, politics, and before the law. There must be no dual standards of justice, no dual rights, privileges, duties, or responsibilities of citizenship. No dual forms of freedom.”

“A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.”

“Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?”

“I don't understand technology, and I'm very scared of it.”

Source : "The Accidental Success of Adam Driver". Interview with Alex Morris, www.rollingstone.com. January 20, 2014.

“I cannot bear not to know the end of a tale. I will read the most trivial things – once commenced – only out of a feverish greed to be able to swallow the ending – sweet or sour – and to be done with what I need never have embarked on. Are you in my case? Or are you a more discriminating reader? Do you lay aside the unprofitable?”

“Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.”

“It's our greed to extract more and more from good that turns it into evil.”

Source : Amish Tripathi (2015). “The Shiva Trilogy: Omnibus”, p.661, Hachette UK

“Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.”

“While neurological studies have tried to identify components responsible for fear and greed, the impact on finance is less clear.”