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Book cover for The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy
If you’re not already doing so, you should probably sit down. Are you ready? Your taxes don’t actually pay for anything, at least not at the federal level. The government doesn’t need our money. We need their money. We’ve got the whole ...more
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Steven G. Mandis
“That requires a willingness to abandon old practices and discover new and innovative ways of conducting business. Everything is subject to change—everything but the values we live by and stand for: teamwork, putting clients’ interests first, integrity, entrepreneurship, and excellence.”
Steven G. Mandis, What Happened to Goldman Sachs: An Insider's Story of Organizational Drift and Its Unintended Consequences

Benjamin Graham
“There is intelligent speculation as there is intelligent investing. But there are many ways in which speculation may be unintelligent. Of these the foremost are: (1) speculating when you think you are investing; (2) speculating seriously instead of as a pastime, when you lack proper knowledge and skill for it; and (3) risking more money in speculation than you can afford to lose.”
Benjamin Graham, The Intelligent Investor

Steven G. Mandis
“We had access to almost any corporate management team or government official through the cachet of the Goldman name and its powerful network. We also had a low cost of capital, because Goldman borrowed money at very low rates from debt investors, money that we then invested and generated a return a good deal higher than the cost of borrowing.”
Steven G. Mandis, What Happened to Goldman Sachs: An Insider's Story of Organizational Drift and Its Unintended Consequences

W. Chan Kim
“We call it value innovation because instead of focusing on beating the competition, you focus on making the competition irrelevant by creating a leap in value for buyers and your company, thereby opening up new and uncontested market space.”
W. Chan Kim, Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant

Steven G. Mandis
“He thought codifying those values, in terms of behaviors, would help transmit the Goldman culture to future generations of employees. The business principles were intended to keep everyone focused on a proven formula for success while staying grounded in the clear understanding that clients were the reason for Goldman’s very existence and the source of the firm’s revenues.”
Steven G. Mandis, What Happened to Goldman Sachs: An Insider's Story of Organizational Drift and Its Unintended Consequences

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