23 Quotes by Dan Senor

Doubt and argument – this is a syndrome of the Jewish civilization and this is a syndrome of today’s Israel.

At the heart of this combined impulse is an instinctive understanding that the challenge facing every developed country in the twenty-first century is to become an idea factory, which includes both generating ideas at home and taking advantage of ideas generated elsewhere.

In Israel’s elite military units, each day is an experiment. And each day ends with a grueling session whereby everyone in the unit – of all ranks – sits down to deconstruct the day, no matter what else is happening on the battlefield or around the world.

According to the pioneering work of Nobel Prize winner Robert Solow, technological innovation is the ultimate source of productivity and growth.22 It’s the only proven way for economies to consistently get ahead – especially innovation born by start-up companies.

So long as the risk was taken intelligently, and not recklessly, there is something to be learned.