AT&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 ThurowEconomists are always recommending the elimination of this or that market imperfection ... no astrophysicist recommends the elimination of planets that he does not like.
Lester ThurowMajor investment decisions have become too important to be left to the private sector.
Lester ThurowWithout entrepreneurs, economies become poor and weak. The old will not exist, the new can't enter
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