Those who gave up caved in to "the age of timidity, " says the 55-year-old engineer.
The Great Depression and the Japanese Deflation remind us of the dangers of timidity and hesitation.
Much of the world is now paying for their timidity: witness the increasingly dark economic backdrop.
Timidity, on the other hand, will boost the odds that we'll go the way of Europe.
It also suggests a bit of political timidity before the election albeit a hard earned apprehension.
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In truth it is not speculation but indecision and timidity that are at fault.
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Everyone knows fiscal and monetary policy in Japan was a disaster of timidity and conservatism.
Researchers see few limits, other than human timidity, to how far they can go.
And Mr Chirac is right to chastise the government for timidity on reforming pensions.
Mr Khatami was thwarted by his own timidity and by the despotism of the conservative forces ranged against him.
Its critics mistake this for either timidity or a failure of vision, but this is farthest from the truth.
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His desire to become an actor was probably triggered by timidity, he says.
Still, Mr Ligi is impatient with the timidity of reforms in southern Europe.
At a global level, the answer is surely that boldness beats timidity.
The childlike timidity and stripped-down honesty of the vocals on stand-out tracks "Shaky Science" and "CFHC" echo Sufjan Stevens and Kimya Dawson.
Deciding to not touch them is an exercise is restraint, not timidity.
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The grand coalition and its SPD-Green predecessor installed checks on the future rise of pension costs (and, in moments of timidity, weakened them).
Until now, managerial timidity, a lingering belief in providing jobs for life and fear of bad publicity have kept these workers in jobs.
Since the big companies brought in thugs to bust militant trade unions in the 1950s, Japanese labour has been noted for its timidity.
And so its social timidity got brushed over with benign neglect.
Consumer mistrust and timidity has been trotted out as a threat to e-commerce for as long as there have been public opinion surveys about the Internet.
This timidity hurts companies and, in the long term, savers.
Those who have given up have caved in to "the age of timidity, " says the 55-year-old engineer in the thick accent he still has from his native Colombia.
But this recent sink might be more related to external timidity than the actual strength of the company, and a bounce back would not be out of the question.
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G20 was furious at the discrepancy between the Europeans' timidity on cutting farm tariffs and the ambition of their demands for reductions in developing countries' tariffs on industrial goods.
To make this relationship work, each country should leave fear and timidity at the door, put economic self-interest to work and forge the strategic partnerships necessary to get the job done.
Overconfidence among soldiers can be as dangerous as timidity.
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