The merger of globalization and the I.T. revolution means new products are being phased in and out so fast that companies cannot afford to wait until the end of the year to figure out whether a team leader is doing a good job.


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The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.
MILTON FRIEDMAN
The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is...
MILTON FRIEDMAN
Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It sho...
MILTON FRIEDMAN
The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free ...
MILTON FRIEDMAN
I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government...
MILTON FRIEDMAN
When government - in pursuit of good intentions - tries to rearrange the economy, legislate morality...
MILTON FRIEDMAN
The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mis...
MILTON FRIEDMAN
History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a...
MILTON FRIEDMAN
I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselv...
MILTON FRIEDMAN
The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make...
MILTON FRIEDMAN
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
MILTON FRIEDMAN
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
MILTON FRIEDMAN
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
MILTON FRIEDMAN
I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it&...
MILTON FRIEDMAN
Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party...
MILTON FRIEDMAN
Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of govern...
MILTON FRIEDMAN
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shorta...
MILTON FRIEDMAN
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
MILTON FRIEDMAN
Inflation is taxation without legislation.
MILTON FRIEDMAN
I don't care what people say about how I look or even their opinion on my relationship. But the mome...
RACHELLE FRIEDMAN
We're counting on him to be a productive member of our bullpen.
ANDREW FRIEDMAN
We'll continue talks with [them]. This doesn't necessarily shut the door on their future with the Ra...
ANDREW FRIEDMAN
We're happy to come to terms with Toby. He's an instrumental part of what we're trying to do as we d...
ANDREW FRIEDMAN
We're getting really close to obtaining the support we need.
ANDREW FRIEDMAN
He understands what it takes to make a team successful.
ANDREW FRIEDMAN
Convoys are the scariest and most high-risk activity a soldier can participate in. You never know wh...
ANDREW FRIEDMAN
As plastic surgeons, we use our general surgery training to help treat initial trauma in the field t...
ANDREW FRIEDMAN
Don't Try This At Home: Culinary Catastrophes from the World's Greatest Chefs
ANDREW FRIEDMAN
We were seeing situations when, even after they reported hazardous conditions and violations were is...
ANDREW FRIEDMAN
This is a classic change-of-scenery trade involving two former No. 1 draft picks that are still youn...
ANDREW FRIEDMAN
Reed: "I owe you big-time, Ronnie."
Ronnie: "You've been my best friend since kindergarten, Ree...
ROBIN FRIEDMAN
Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to pr...
MILTON FRIEDMAN
The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization ...
MILTON FRIEDMAN
You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing.
KINKY FRIEDMAN
The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the lea...
MILTON FRIEDMAN
Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it... gives people what they...
MILTON FRIEDMAN
And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler re...
MILTON FRIEDMAN
I even went so far as to become a Southern Baptist for a while, until I realized that they didn'...
KINKY FRIEDMAN
We've got to clear some of the room out of the prisons so we can put the bad guys in there, like...
KINKY FRIEDMAN
William Bennett is my patron saint, one of them. Redd Foxx is another.
KINKY FRIEDMAN
The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless bo...
MILTON FRIEDMAN
Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.
KINKY FRIEDMAN
A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's friend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just...
BRUCE FRIEDMAN
Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and ...
BRUCE FRIEDMAN
The most important thing about a TV set is to get it back against something and not out in the middl...
BRUCE FRIEDMAN
A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are ...
BRUCE FRIEDMAN
A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are ...
BRUCE FRIEDMAN
Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and ...
BRUCE FRIEDMAN