C. L. R. James Quotes

Companies often become victims of their own mythologies.

Companies, like people, don't much like to change.

The typical American corporation is a shareholders' republic the same way that China is a peoples' republic.

Corporate welfare isn't necessarily a bad thing.

The U.S. is excellent at importing cheap products from the rest of the world. Let's try importing some human capital instead.

Pop music thrives on repetition. You know a song's a hit when you've heard it so often that you'll be happy never to hear it again.

Art collecting has traditionally been the domain of wealthy individuals in search of rewards beyond the purely financial.

Sometimes even a smart crowd will make a mistake.

The business of America shouldn't be subsidizing business.

Sometimes you have to destroy your business in order to save it.

The history of the Internet is, in part, a series of opportunities missed.

Moviegoers love the intricacies of a crime all the more when it's for a good cause.

Discussions of health care in the U.S. usually focus on insurance companies, but, whatever their problems, they're not the main driver of health-care inflation: providers are.

By the time of the '90s boom, CEOs had become superheroes, accorded celebrity treatment and followed with a kind of slavish scrutiny that Alfred P. Sloan could never have imagined.

A consumer-finance agency is a good thing, but it would do well to teach consumers a simple lesson: if you don't understand the deal you're making, don't make it.

Wall Street has come a long way from the insider-dominated world that was blown apart by the Great Depression.

Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably smart - smarter even sometimes than the smartest people in them.

Traditionally, tours were a means of promoting a record. Today, the record promotes the tour.

The stock market has an insidious effect on C.E.O.s' moods, because of its impact not just on their companies but on their own bank accounts.

All things being equal, letting people make decisions for themselves will produce smarter outcomes, collectively, than relying on government planners.

Standards wars involve lots of variables, and understanding them often seems more an art than a science. They generally involve just two big players, and end in a winner-take-all situation.

Technological innovation has dramatically lowered the cost of computing, making it possible for large numbers of consumers to own powerful new technologies at reasonably low prices.

The oil market is especially sensitive even to a hint of expansion or contraction in supply.

Meeting external deadlines is much harder than meeting internal ones. On the other hand, internal deadlines sometimes don't feel real, and are therefore easy to evade.

I tend to delay writing by doing more research - it's really the act of writing the piece that I have the hardest time with.

There does seem to be some evidence that as people get older, they procrastinate less, perhaps because they feel the pressure of time more.

You'll sometimes hear from people that they actually do a better job of getting their work done when they have a lot of other obligations - in effect, it removes the possibility of procrastinating.

Studs Lonigan, on the verge of fifteen, and wearing his first suit of long trousers, stood in the bathroom with a Sweet Caporal pasted on his mug.

Life was hard on mothers; but then, they just didn't understand.

Life is sad enough without people writing sad books.

There's one good kind of writer - a dead one.

The Ilan-Lael Foundation is an arts education foundation celebrating nature and the aesthetic of the built environment for its ability to help us see ourselves and our world in new ways.

Rest assured that my support for any eventual reform package will be based firmly upon what is in the best interests of the people of Upstate New York, not any party or president.

And yet 50 percent of the kids who start high school in the United States today do not finish high school.

Mathematics speaks to the transcendental, as does this extraordinary friendship. A beautiful book!

Maybe, so Donald Trump didn't start the fire at this particular Chicago protest, but fanning the flames is a problem.

Making wise decisions requires more than incentives. It requires wisdom.

If the rest of the world likes Americans only when we're dying, the rest of the world can go to hell.

Once you get that two-way energy thing going, everyone benefits hugely.

We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.

O, it's enough to be on your way. It's enough just to cover ground. It's enough to be moving on. Home: better build it behind your eyes. Carry it in your heart, Safe among your own.

It's the nature of human consciousness to look for trouble constantly, and we find it. We find it.

Something I do love about social media is how you can expand your idea. You can make an extension of your art as opposed to just using it for promotion.

I think there's probably a God-shaped hole in everybody's being. Even if God only exists in people's minds, He's still a force.

I wanted to perform, I wanted to write songs, and I wanted to get lots of chicks.

I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character.

Do me wrong, do me right, tell me lies, but hold me tight.

A concert is always like a feast day to me.

I don't build no heathen temples, where the Lord has done laid a hand. There's a well on the hill, let it be.

Photographers and reporters are mostly after me. They want to know what I read and what I'm like and I don't really know myself, so how can I tell them?