Natural resources have dropped out of the competitive equation. In fact, a lack of natural resources may even be an advantage. Because the industries we are competing for - the industries of the future - are all based on brainpower.
Lester ThurowA competitive world offers two possibilities. You can lose. Or, if you want to win, you can change.
Lester ThurowAT&T invented the cellular telephone, but saw no future in it. It takes entrepreneurs, who are angels of destruction, to take advantage of things which the inventor cannot or does not see.
Lester ThurowMajor investment decisions have become too important to be left to the private sector.
Lester Thurow