W. Brian Arthur, “The Second Economy,”
, October 2011.
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg
Zuckerberg attended Ardsley High School for two years before transferring to Phillips Exeter Academy.
“Dopamine, a pleasure-inducing”
Ajay Kapur, Niall Macleod, and Narendra Singh, “Plutonomy: Buying Luxury, Explaining Global Imbalances,” Citigroup Global Markets Equity Strategy report, October 16, 2005.
“I recognize that sometimes survival requires a positive effort”
CF interviews with George Soros, May 2009 and December 2008.
“My theory of bubbles was a translation”
CF interview with George Soros, May 2009.
“That experience has allowed him to see through artifice”
CF interview with Jonathan Soros, July 14, 2009.
“Whenever I read about people not seeing it coming”
CF interview with Keith Anderson, June 26, 2009.
“They have their own style and their own exposure”
CF interview with George Soros, May 2009.
Soros “didn’t interfere in the running of their accounts”
Ibid.
“Basically, it involved a large amount of hedging”
Ibid.
Soros was not only unfamiliar with fancy new derivatives
Ibid.
“In a time like this, where the uncertainty is so big”
CF interview with George Soros, December 16, 2008.
“That’s what makes this macro investing”
CF interview with Keith Anderson, June 26, 2009.
“I was very lucky”
CF interview with Azim Premji, January 25, 2012.
“India is growing at 8 percent”
CF interview with Ashutosh Varshney, November 13, 2011.
“You could start a business”
Kaitlin Shung, “Chinese ‘Fugitive’ Lai Changxing Faces Deportation in Canada,”
, July 13, 2011.
“Well, the U.S., like I said”
CF interview with David Neeleman, September 14, 2010.
“The next ten years”
Chrystia Freeland, “Working Wealthy Predominate the New Global Elite,”
, January 25, 2011.
Following the model of Nucor, which revolutionized
Ibid. pp. 101–8.
“Yes, you need to be bold and extremely committed”
Jennings, “Opportunities of a Lifetime.”
“Slow or hesitant business leaders”
CF interview with Aditya Mittal, November 11, 2010.
“
If Lai Changxing were executed”
Mark Mackinnon, “Lai’s sentencing marks the end of China’s Great Gatsby,”
, May 18, 2012.
He calls that period his “lost years”
Parmy Olson, “The Billionaire Who Friended the Web,”
, March 28, 2011.
“There was a period of time”
Miguel Helft, “The Class That Built Apps, and Fortunes,”
, May 7, 2011.
“I felt, having been late”
John Seabrook, “Streaming Dreams,”
, January 16, 2012.
published a 143-page report
“Big data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity,” McKinsey Global Institute, May 2011. http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/mgi/research/technology_and_innovation/big_data_the_next_frontier_for_innov ation.
“People have always asked me”
CF interview with Larry Fink, October 20, 2010.
“Firestone’s historical excellence”
Donald Sull, “The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution,”
, vol. 73, no. 3 (Autumn 1999), pp. 430–64.
“An ossified success formula”
Donald Sull, “Ingrained success breeds failure,”
, October 2, 2005.
“Basically, we are living in a world”
Stephen Jennings, “Opportunities of a Lifetime: Lessons for New Zealand from New, High-Growth Economics,” Sir Ronald Trotter Lecture, April 7, 2009.
“A disruptive event now needs”
Michiyo Nakamoto and David Wighton, “Citigroup chief stays bullish on buy-outs,”
, July 9, 2007.
“I’ve been through probably six crises”
CF interview with Peter Weinberg, June 25, 2009.
the ability to “pivot”
Caroline O’Connor and Perry Klebahn, “The Strategic Pivot: Rules for Entrepreneurs and Other Innovators,”
blog network, February 28, 2011.
Flickr’s genesis was in 2002
See Jessica Livingston,
(Apress, 2007), pp. 257–264.
“One thing that I’ve both wrestled with”
