Dump Quotes
[Many locals, mind you, say that Weymouth's journey of upward mobility began years before the Olympic announcement - and worry that young families will be priced out of a booming property market.] The change really started with the closure of the naval base in 1997, and the closure two years later of the Royal Naval Air Station... Portland had for years been seen as a dumping ground for social problems and the housing was not considered up to much.
- Stuart Morris
[In the book's first chapter, Jackson recalls a speech Thiel gave to Confinnity employees, just a few days after he began work, in which he described his hopes for PayPal to become a borderless private currency. He saw PayPal facilitating trade in currency for anyone with an Internet connection by enabling an instant transfer of funds from insecure currencies to more stable ones, such as U.S. dollars. Thiel explained to his young staff how governments had historically robbed their own citizens through inflation and currency devaluation. The very rich could always protect themselves by investing offshore. It's the poor and middle class, Thiel explained, who get screwed.] PayPal will give citizens worldwide more direct control over their currencies than they ever had before... It will be nearly impossible for corrupt governments to steal wealth from their people through their old means because if they try the people will switch to dollars or pounds or yen, in effect dumping the worthle.
- Peter Thiel
[Better terms. Contracts with steep termination fees are another barrier to dumping a carrier. Carriers could initially roll out longer contracts with higher termination fees, but may compete over the long run by offering fewer binding contracts.] It's going to be hard for carriers to stick with a system that punishes consumers... Consumers just won't accept that.
- Adam Goldberg
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