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    Recession to recovery: Can St. Louis get ahead?
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    The retail financial services industry is hopping. "Look at Edward Jones. Pfizer. You have companies like (drugmaker) Sanofi Aventis that people are just unaware of but has one of its biggest facilities in St. Louis ... Boeing is huge." If the region wants to draw big employers, it would do well to focus on the industries that are growing to play to its strengths, Anderson said. Full Article at St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    Look at Edward Jones. Pfizer. You have companies like (drugmaker) Sanofi Aventis that people are just unaware of but has one of its biggest facilities in St. Louis ... Boeing is huge.
    SOURCE: St. Louis Post-Dispatch 4 weeks ago
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Recession to recovery: Can St. Louis get ahead?
  1. It's not like the rest of the world is waiting for St. Louis, or any other city, to catch up ... Things, frankly, move too slowly, and we've got to figure out how to change the metabolism.
    SOURCE: St. Louis Post-Dispatch 4 weeks ago
  2. We need to pay attention to the things that are right here in our midst ... But it really needs to be very, very, very concrete. With an assessment, and goals we work towards.
    SOURCE: St. Louis Post-Dispatch 4 weeks ago
  3. Everybody realizes that the U.S. is going to need to export more and import less, and most of what we export is manufactured goods ... That's going to create opportunities in places like St. Louis.
    SOURCE: St. Louis Post-Dispatch 4 weeks ago
  4. If you want to make one good bet, one hard bet, it's education ... Everyone wants to pretend it's something else. It's not.
    SOURCE: St. Louis Post-Dispatch 4 weeks ago
  5. But it's where the jobs are.
    SOURCE: St. Louis Post-Dispatch 4 weeks ago
  6. It takes a handful of people in frank discussion, and then it takes really deep, messy community engagement ... You need regular, ordinary people who are committed to the same thing. That is messy and harrowing, but when done well it results in a good, solid, laser vision.
    SOURCE: St. Louis Post-Dispatch 4 weeks ago
  7. A scattershot approach has worked for a couple of generations ... But it's going to have to become more focused. We've hit that point where you have to spend money where it counts.
    SOURCE: St. Louis Post-Dispatch 4 weeks ago
  8. We were blessed for so many years, for 100 years, with all these major corporations ... We got sort of fat and lazy. We worked for big companies and had steady jobs, and we relied on that. That doesn't create an entrepreneurial culture.
    SOURCE: St. Louis Post-Dispatch 4 weeks ago
  9. It can be a very good pillar of your economy.
    SOURCE: St. Louis Post-Dispatch 4 weeks ago

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