Early 1990s Quotes
Reflections on a decade that reshaped business and geopolitics.
These quotes look back at the early 1990s as a hinge point — from Pakistan's ISI backing the Taliban's beginnings, to bank bailouts becoming familiar, to IBM's near-collapse. It's a decade remembered more for instability than nostalgia.
It should tell you something that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency invented the Taliban in the early 1990s only because Hekmatyar, its primary U.S.-bankrolled proxy in the war for control of Afghanistan, had proved too bloodthirsty after the Soviets withdrew,...
I think everybody at IBM knows the early 1990s disaster, and it's in our fabric that you cannot miss the ship.
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Lots of businesses built in the early 1990s were not very transparent, not only by Russians, but also by foreigners.
'Living Single' was on in early 1990s - the show about Queen Latifah living with a bunch of friends. And then there's 'Friends,' and that's called the groundbreaking show about unmarried adults living in New York!
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Bailouts may have been more tolerable in the early 1990s when they were rare and their use for a failing bank was uncertain. That is no longer the case.
The early 1990s was a time of great advancements in precooked bacon technology. Pork producers, food labs, and agricultural schools such as Iowa State University began investing substantially in precooked R&D.
People tend to overlook the fact that North Korea's economy collapsed at about the same time as South Koreans lost faith in their own state. The late 1980s and early 1990s were a time when South Koreans were questioning the...
In the early 1990s we witnessed the emergence of a revitalized contemporary Chinese art world that began as a reaction against the government-approved Social Realist style. Zhang Xiaogang, Huang Yong Ping, Ai WeiWei, Yue Minjun, and Wang Guangyi were among...
It was only in the early 1990s - during my student years as an aspiring scientist at Delhi University - that I discovered the world of cinema.
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Several quotes also note how opaque early-1990s businesses were, especially in the post-Soviet world. For related reflection on how things get built or attempted, see our Aspiring quotes.
