#lion

Iran is a country of 80 million people, educated and dynamic. It sits astride a crucial part of the world. It cannot be sanctioned and pressed down forever. It is the last great civilization to sit outside the global order. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#cannot #civilization #country #crucial #down

It's time to pull the bandage off America's foreclosure problem. The economy is ready to emerge from its recent dark period, but to make it happen soon we need to speed the resolution of millions of troubled home loans. Six years have passed since the crisis began, yet instead of accelerating, foreclosures have slowed. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#bandage #began #crisis #dark #economy

Too-easy credit and millions of bad loans made during the U.S. housing bubble paved the way for the financial calamity and Great Recession that followed. Today, by contrast, credit is too tight. Mortgage loans are particularly hard to get, creating a problem for the housing market and the broader economy. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#broader #bubble #calamity #contrast #creating

It's extremely hard to build a company with a product that everyone loves, is free and has no business model, and then to innovate a business model. I did that with Kazaa, had half a billion downloads but that wasn't a sustainable business. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#build #business #business model #company #did

We have 2 million users in the U.S. and about 13 million worldwide in more than 200 countries. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#countries #million #more #than #users

We have 2 million users in the U.S. and about 13 million worldwide in more than 200 countries. We're getting 80,000 new users each day. And more than half a million people are connected via Skype at any given moment. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#any #connected #countries #day #each

If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem. ↗

— J. Paul Getty

#bank #million #owe #problem #you

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success. ↗

— J. Paul Getty

#give #gladly #hate #i #just

We are still keeping, as much as we can to the one million commitment that we made, hoping that at a certain point in time, the headwinds represented by the strength of the yen will be a little bit less strong. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#certain #certain point #commitment #hoping #keeping

To set the record straight for the God knows millionth time, we certainly didn't sign to Atlantic just for the money. ↗

— Ben Gibbard

#certainly #god #just #knows #millionth