Major investment decisions have become too important to be left to the private sector.
Lester ThurowChange requires individuals who recognize that new things can be done and who take the initiative to get them done ... The existing bureaucracies, public and private, will not take on the job of changing what is.
Lester ThurowIf a group of people has no sense where they came from-it is difficult for them to have a sense where they should go.
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 Thurow