For about a decade now I have witnessed a woeful decline not only in the business of our country but also in the spirit of its people.Where perseverance and ingenuity once dwelled,apathy and despair now loiter. (查看原文)
DIsCIPLINE,CREATIVITY,and a machine-like consistency were es-sential factors in Rask's new level of success-but not the only factors.His prosperity matched the roaring optimism of the times. (查看原文)
MosT of us prefer to believe we are the active subjects of our vic-tories but only the passive objects of our defeats.We triumph,but itis not really we who fail-we are ruined by forces beyond our control. (查看原文)
During the last week of October 1929,it took most speculators-from the high-powered financier in downtown Manhattan to theamateur housewife trading at the San Francisco Stock Exchange-amatter of days to shift from the agents of their success,with nothingto thank but their own acumen and relentless will,to the victims of aprofoundly flawed and maybe even corrupt system,which was the soleresponsible for their demise.A dip in the indexes,an epidemic of fear,a selling frenzy driven by pessimism,a widespread inability to respondto margin calls...Whatever caused the slump that,in turn,becamea panic,one thing was clear-none of those who had helped to inflatethe bubble felt responsible for its bursting.They were the blamelesscasualties of a disaster of almost natural proportions. (查看原文)
herself,she withdrew from her imaginary work.An excited sort of ex-haustio paralyzed her,and she started taking her meals inhermEvery time,however,the service trolleys were picked up with theirplates still domed.She only drank the fruit juices that had been thesignature of her cocktail parties. (查看原文)
