Without the tax, Mr. Buffett warned, "you pass down the ability to command the resources of the nation based on heredity rather than merit".
They bet too heavily on self-maintenance and not heavily enough on assessing the resources they command, the resources they need to command, the points of resistance that keep them from growing.
Like other western cities in the United States, Seattle commands the resources of a broad hinterland, one that extends far east to the Great Plains of Montana.
He realized that as long as the Romans commanded the resources of an undivided Italian confederacy, no foreign attack could overwhelm them beyond recovery.
Its movement is toward stable participation groups that have a clearly defined arena of responsibility and can command the resources necessary to implement their solutions.
Without the estate tax, you in effect will have an aristocracy of wealth, which means you pass down the ability to command the resources of the nation based on heredity rather than merit".
They operate this way because they are, virtually by definition, weak by traditional measurements of power and do not command the resources of a state to pursue their aims.
In 2001, in a case that commanded the resources of powerful legal advocacy groups on the religious right, including the Alliance Defending Freedom and the Liberty Counsel, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that to exclude an after-school program on account of the religious views of its sponsors amounted to a violation of free-speech rights.
As Drucker put it: "Managers are society's major leadership group … They command the resources of society". Will these leaders choose to put the "creative" back in the process of creative destruction by privileging entrepreneurial investment in customer- and market-creating innovation over short-term profits?
But for many of those attending such conferences, "because we can" would be reason enough to try.Several speakers at the RAS agreed that a starship would not be feasible until such time as human beings had spread through most of Earth's solar system, and possessed an economy able to command the resources of more than one planet.
