Rising Sun Quotes

“The kids I see are lazy. Nobody wants to work. I teach physics. It takes years to master. But all the kids want to dress like Charlie Sheen and make a million dollars before they’re twenty-eight. The only way you can make that kind of money is in law, investment banking, Wall Street. Places where the game is paper profits, something for nothing. But that’s what the kids want to do, these days.”
― Michael Crichton, Rising Sun

“But free trade is meaningless unless there is also fair trade.”
― Michael Crichton, Rising Sun

“The Japanese have a saying: fix the problem, not the blame. In American organizations it’s all about who fucked up. Whose head will roll. In Japanese organizations it’s about what’s fucked up, and how to fix it. Nobody gets blamed. Their way is better.”
― Michael Crichton, Rising Sun

“The American press reports the prevailing opinion. The prevailing opinion is the opinion of the group in power.”
― Michael Crichton, Rising Sun

“This is not the time for sophomore bullshit. You know how it works. The American press reports the prevailing opinion. The prevailing opinion is the opinion of the group in power.”
― Michael Crichton, Rising Sun

“it’s because America has become a land without substance. We let our manufacturing go. We don’t make things anymore. When you manufacture products, you add value to raw materials, and you literally create wealth. But America has stopped doing that. Americans make money now by paper manipulation,”
― Michael Crichton, Rising Sun

“got to the concrete embankment about thirty seconds after the Ferrari hit it flat out at a hundred and sixty kilometers an hour. I guess the gas tank had exploded on impact, and the flames were jumping fifteen meters into the air.”
― Michael Crichton, Rising Sun

“Yes, I said 1962 levels. I know it’s hard to believe, but think back to the fifties, when American workers could own a house, raise a family, and send the kids to college, all on a single paycheck. Now both parents work and most people still can’t afford a house.”
― Michael Crichton, Rising Sun

“That’s the problem. We’re now dependent on Japan—and I believe America shouldn’t be dependent on any nation.”
― Michael Crichton, Rising Sun

“we lose the ability to make our own products, we lose control over our destiny. It’s that simple.”
― Michael Crichton, Rising Sun

“kōhai. Invested in a country that’s in deep trouble. That’s filled with strange individualistic people who talk constantly. Who confront each other constantly. Who argue all the time. People who aren’t well educated, who don’t know much about the world, who get their information from television. People who don’t work very hard, who tolerate violence and drug use, and who don’t seem to object to it.”
― Michael Crichton, Rising Sun