Central planning didn't work for Stalin or Mao, and it won't work for an entrepreneur either.
Interpretation
Centralized control over economic decision-making is ineffective for both governments and entrepreneurs.
In this quote, Michael Bloomberg highlights the failures of central planning practices as seen in the regimes of Stalin and Mao, suggesting that such an approach is just as detrimental in the entrepreneurial landscape. He implies that flexibility and individual initiative are essential for success in business, contrasting the rigidity of top-down decision-making with the dynamic nature of entrepreneurship.
In practice
During a business seminar discussing the importance of adaptive strategies, one could use this quote to emphasize the need for flexibility.
Like Israel, New York City's history has been defined by immigrants who come in search of freedom and the opportunity to build a better life. And like Israel, New York City has remained a target for terrorists who seek to destroy that freedom
No matter what you may think about her politics or her record, Hillary Clinton understands that this is not reality television; this is reality. She understands the job of president. It involves finding solutions, not pointing fingers; and offering hope, not stoking fear.
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I don't believe that government is good at picking technology, particularly technology that is changing. By the time you get it done and go through democracy, it's so outdated.
I've always thought if we don't want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books. But when you have laws, you breed contempt if you don't enforce them.
Stopping illegal immigration would mean that wages would have to rise to a level where Americans would want the jobs currently taken by illegal aliens.
As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods.
Four things have almost invariably followed the imposition of controls to keep prices below the level they would reach under supply and demand in a free market: (1) increased use of the product or service whose price is controlled, (2) Reduced supply of the same product or service, (3) quality deterioration, (4) black markets.
Never in the history of human credit has so much been owed.
No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an economy of time more valuable.
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