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“Lack of entitlement drives small nation’s success: they expect to adapt to outside forces, so they do.”
― Too Small to Fail: Why Small Nations Outperform Larger Ones and How They Are Reshaping the World
― Too Small to Fail: Why Small Nations Outperform Larger Ones and How They Are Reshaping the World
“The cost of conflict almost always outweigh the benefit of what is being fought over.”
― Too Small to Fail: Why Small Nations Outperform Larger Ones and How They Are Reshaping the World
― Too Small to Fail: Why Small Nations Outperform Larger Ones and How They Are Reshaping the World
“A society where everybody is paddling the same boat at a decent pace will move quicker and more effortlessly than one with a few speedsters and many laggards.”
― Too Small to Fail: Why Small Nations Outperform Larger Ones and How They Are Reshaping the World
― Too Small to Fail: Why Small Nations Outperform Larger Ones and How They Are Reshaping the World
“Lack of entitlement drives small nation’s success: they expect to adapt to outside forces, so they do.”
― Too Small to Fail: Why Small Nations Outperform Larger Ones and How They Are Reshaping the World
― Too Small to Fail: Why Small Nations Outperform Larger Ones and How They Are Reshaping the World
“A society where everybody is paddling the same boat at a decent pace will move quicker and more effortlessly than one with a few speedsters and many laggards.”
― Too Small to Fail: Why Small Nations Outperform Larger Ones and How They Are Reshaping the World
― Too Small to Fail: Why Small Nations Outperform Larger Ones and How They Are Reshaping the World
“Widespread distrust imposes a kind of tax on all forms of economic activity It constricts and raises the cost of transactions.”
― Too Small to Fail: Why Small Nations Outperform Larger Ones and How They Are Reshaping the World
― Too Small to Fail: Why Small Nations Outperform Larger Ones and How They Are Reshaping the World
“The cost of conflict almost always outweigh the benefit of what is being fought over.”
― Too Small to Fail: Why Small Nations Outperform Larger Ones and How They Are Reshaping the World
― Too Small to Fail: Why Small Nations Outperform Larger Ones and How They Are Reshaping the World
“Much of the current debate focuses not on success but on failure. There is a shelf-load of books discussing flawed states such as ‘Why Nations Fail?â€�, ‘Is Democracy Dying?â€� and ‘What’s Killing Liberalism?â€�. But as Harvard University’s Steven Pinker reminds us, ‘There are so many more ways for things to go wrong than to go rightâ€�, making success far more valuable to explain than failure.
Have we not heard enough about failure? After all, history shows that unlike lotteries, progress is usually a matter of finding something which works and reverse-engineering it.”
― Too Small to Fail: Why Small Nations Outperform Larger Ones and How They Are Reshaping the World
Have we not heard enough about failure? After all, history shows that unlike lotteries, progress is usually a matter of finding something which works and reverse-engineering it.”
― Too Small to Fail: Why Small Nations Outperform Larger Ones and How They Are Reshaping the World