Chrystia Freeland, “The Credit Crunch According to Soros,”
, January 30, 2009.
“My conceptual framework, which basically emphasizes”
CF interview with George Soros, December 16, 2008.
“It’s an almost aggressive pessimism about his own ideas”
CF interview with Jonathan Soros, July 14, 2009.
“The businesses and institutions underpinning”
Jennings, “Opportunities of a Lifetime.”
“The group of winners is churning at an increasing and rapid rate”
“Measuring the Forces of Long-Term Change: The 2009 shift index”, Deloitte Center for the Edge, December 2009, p. 115.
“There are a lot of young entrepreneurs”
Sam Grobart and Evelyn M. Rusli, “For Flip Video Camera, Four Years from Hot Start-Up to Obsolete,”
, April 12, 2011.
“If you want to get a reputation”
Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway Inc. 2006 Annual Report, February 28, 2007.
“Almost to a man, they lay great emphasis”
Merton, “The Matthew Effect,” pp. 56–63.
The power of choosing the right work is equally pronounced
Graeme Wood, “Secret Fears of the Super-Rich,”
, April 2011.
“sudden wealth syndrome”
“Rich Man’s Burden,”
, June 14, 2001.
“I had one friend”
CF interview with Viktor Vekselberg, September 7, 2010.
U.S. political scientists in 1999
Stephen E. Lucas and Martin J. Medhurst, “American Public Address: The Top 100 Speeches of the Twentieth Century,” National Communication Association, Seattle, Washington, November 8–12, 2000.
“It was the middle”
Franklin Delano Roosevelt campaign address on progressive government at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, California, September 23, 1932.
“In Russia, all the property”
Chrystia Freeland, “The Next Russian Revolution,”
, October 2011.
“to buy an apartment”
Ibid.
“When I graduated”
Richard Cree, “Profile: Reid Hoffman,”
, July/August 2009.
“I was focused on my CV”
CF interview with Reid Hoffman, February 17, 2012.
“After the eBay/PayPal deal”
Hoffman and Casnocha,
, p. 169.
“Once-great companies”
Ibid., p. 18.
“You were born an entrepreneur”
Ibid., p.
3.
“the mind-sets and skill sets”
Ibid., p.
4.
“Over the last ten years”
“The Mobile Revolution: Driving the Next Wave of Productivity and Growth,” Council on Foreign Relations meeting, March 30, 2011. http://www.cfr.org/information-and-communication/mobile-revolution-driving-next- wave-productivity-growth/p24545.
U.S. workers take an average 30 percent pay cut
Till von Wachter, Jae Song, and Joyce Manchester, “Long-Term Earnings Losses due to Mass Layoffs During the 1982 Recession: An Analysis Using U.S. Administrative Data from 1974 to 2004,” Columbia University Economics Department Discussion Paper Series DP0910-07, April 2009.
“Your education isn’t fungible”
CF interview with Michael Spence, April 15, 2011.
“For the last sixty or so years”
Hoffman and Casnocha,
, p. 5.
“Remember: If you don’t find risk, risk will find you”
Hoffman,
, p. 188.
“In the past, when you thought”
Ibid., p.
187.
CHAPTER 5: RENT-SEEKING
“They steal and steal and steal”
From Chrystia Freeland,
(Crown Business, 2000), pp. 67–68.
“Eating increases the appetite”
Ibid., p. 233.
risked becoming “an unequal oligarchy, or worse”
Raghuram Rajan, “Is There a Threat of Oligarchy in India?” Speech to the Bombay Chamber of Commerce on its Founders Day Celebration, September 10, 2008.
“quite coup”
Simon Johnson, “The Quiet Coup,”
, May 2009.
