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Sometimes borrowing makes sense, to borrow to invest into something productive. But if you borrow just to consume, then eventually you get in trouble and your debt ratios become too high relative to your need to pay back your debts over time. It could be a problem for households, for the business sector, financial institutions, for governments, for a country as a whole.
— Nouriel Roubini

Author: Nouriel Roubini | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Economics, Finance

Whenever you position something so that there’s going to be a winner and a loser, very rarely have I seen that be to anybody’s benefit.
— Ginni Rometty

Author: Ginni Rometty | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Resilience is the most important characteristic, along with curiosity, for any leader. It’s not exactly about what you know; it’s about those two dimensions. I think there are two ways to develop resilience: one is through the relationships you have… The second way is through your attitude.
— Ginni Rometty

Author: Ginni Rometty | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subject: Leadership

Asking for help is a sign of strength, not weakness, because you’re acknowledging what you or the organization know or don’t know… It takes a strong person to do that, to ask for help. When people won’t ask for help when they need it, I get very nervous. To me, that’s a great sign of weakness.
— Ginni Rometty

Author: Ginni Rometty | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Career, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

We’ve got to move the whole country to a skills-view, not just degree-view, of jobs, and then hire for that and reward for that. This accomplishes many things. First, as an employer, I need more people with the right skills. Second, there are so many people left out of economic opportunity. This brings more people back into our workforce.
— Ginni Rometty

Author: Ginni Rometty | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Hiring, Human Resources

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In principle, patents open up innovations in two ways. First, they confer only temporary rights; once patents expire or are abandoned, the intellectual property they are designed to protect passes into the public domain. Second, they require the details of the invention to be disclosed so they can be replicated. This permits follow-on innovation, which is essential for industrial progress. More recently, as the patent system … [ Read more ]
— The Economist

As for the genius of innovation, clearly the one percent spark of inspiration is nurtured by a positive culture. But the 99 percent perspiration ingredient comes from employees who love what they do, as well as where they do it, and who invest in that Holy Grail of productivity called “discretionary … [ Read more ]
— Stephanie Quappe, David Samso Aparici, Jon Warshawsky

Money never comes first in self-expression of any kind.
— William J. Reilly

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no … [ Read more ]
— Theodore Roosevelt

The uncomfortable fact for many green marketers--and targets of that marketing--is that genuinely going green would mean giving up most of the products and services that clutter our consumer culture. It would mean simplifying, valuing time and people over stuff. How can most products avoid the sin of the hidden trade-off? With a simple label: "You don't really need this."
— David Roberts

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