Quote of the day
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
Daniel Yergin
Born: February 6, 1947 (age 77)
Bio: Daniel Howard Yergin is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, speaker, and economic researcher. Yergin is the co-founder and chairman of the Cambridge Energy Research Associates, an energy research consultancy that is now part of IHS Inc.
Known for:
- The Commanding Heights (1998)
- Russia 2010 (1993)
- Shattered Peace: The Origins of the Cold War (1977)