Sentence examples for quick mentality from inspiring English sources

Mr. Westad, who was living in China before, during and immediately after the Tiananmen Square killings, noted that among the young, this sense of personal responsibility in addressing social ills in a public way was last apparent in the 1980s, before nearly disappearing in the subsequent repression and amid the "get rich quick" mentality that later emerged.

It was a hard-drinking mining town with a get-rich-quick mentality that he absorbed.

"All you have left are a handful of people with a get-rich-quick mentality and courage to play a declining market".

They showed a reckless get-rich-quick mentality yet the parents' lawyers had allowed themselves to be convinced they could not win 100% damages in court.

Although he said he still believes in the power of the Web as a distribution tool for "Leave Luck to Heaven," he laments the get-discovered-quick mentality of many digital newcomers and the spoof-obsessed sites courting them.

Bolstered by the recent discovery of offshore oil, the CPP has no development model other than the prescriptions of the IMF and World Bank, which are easily grafted onto the corruption and get rich-quick mentality of his business cronies, military generals and his police chiefs.

"Poorly structured pay packages encouraged the get-rich-quick mentality and overly risky behavior that helped bring financial markets to their knees and wiped out profits at so many companies," said Amy Borrus, deputy director at the Council of Institutional Investors.

Written by Jeppe Gjervig Gram, who also co-wrote Borgen, Follow the Money is a brutal critique of the greed and get-rich-quick mentality that grew like spores in the banks, boardrooms and homes of Denmark in the years before the 2008 crash.

This concept may sound ridiculous from a business standpoint, but for investors, it fuels the get-richer-quicker mentality that exists here.

However, resource wealth produces a get-rich-quick mentality among businessmen and policy makers, leading them to underprovide those investments beneficial to manufacturing industries in the long run.

Though he criticized companies as having a "quick kill" mentality in a speech at the Nasdaq exchange last year — and more recently blamed a lack of regulation of investment banks and mortgage providers for the housing crisis — some of Wall Street's biggest names are flocking to Mr. Obama.