Comments, Quotes and Things

- "Governments know less than everything" -- Prof. Luis Cabral

- "...The normal laws of development are inverted here in the Congo. The forest, not the town, offers the safest sanctuary, and it is grandfathers who have been more exposed to modernity than their grandchildren." -- quote that really put things into perspective from 'Blood River' (p. 141), a book about a trip though Congo.

- "Christopher Walken impersonations are much funnier than Christopher Walken" -- Luis Jerry Peña

- 50% of houses in Spanish market are under ownership of banks. -- learned in class # 1

- "When going to a concert, never wear the t-shirt of the band you are going to see. Rather wear something related (e.g. wear a Red Sox shirt to a Dropkick Murphy's concert) -- Carl Palme observation

- UN estimates that by 2050 the EU will have needed to accept 350,000,000 immigrants in order to maintain the current ratio of '# of people retired' to '# of people in the workforce.' -- learned in class # 2

- Hong Kong Jockey Club generates 7% of the entire city's tax revenue -- fact

- "Never follow a hippie to a second location" -- Jack Donaughey

- "That man's mustache says -'I only make big deals' " -- Whiskers Franklin (aka Albert Handy)

- France and Argentina are the butt of all MBA professors' jokes -- a personal observation

- There are mainly 2 types of people (1) those that can't wait to grow out their mustache, and (2) those that are deadly afraid of growing one out -- Movember Lesson # 1

- 50% of total personal expenditure on health care is spent, on average, in the last two years of one's life -- learned in class # 3

- Blowing one's nose comes with additional difficulties when sporting a mustache -- Movember Lesson # 2

- 50% of China's GDP is held in foreign reserves -- learned in class # 4