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The Hard Stuff With Nigel Latta - Selling Ourselves Short

Television (Full Length Episode) – 2016

You can sell the same thing over and over again. With some of our traditional industries, we have that limitation. You can only sell each apple one time...but we can make a game and have that downloaded, or sold, millions, tens of millions, hundreds of millions of times.
– Mario Wynands, Managing Director of video game company PikPok, discusses the differences between tech companies and traditional industries
We're way, way behind. Our Government is putting in about 0.5 percent of GDP, which is well below the OECD average, and certainly when you look at small, successful countries, we're only putting in about half what they do.
– University of Auckland Te Pūnaha Matatini Director Professor Shaun Hendy on the Government's contribution to research and development
The New Zealand paradox is: if you look around New Zealand, we're safe, secure, well regulated, not overly taxed, not overly burdened by many things. We should be much richer than we are. And that is the paradox. And by the OECD's reckoning, we should be 40% richer than we are currently.
– Economist Shamubeel Eaqub says Aotearoa is not in the financial position it should be
It was really sort of, I don't know, two, three years into it that we kind of had that epiphany of 'It's got to be global, and there's no reason why it can't be'.
– Fashion designer Karen Walker discusses her rise to the global market in the early stages of her business
New Zealand's standard of living has dropped considerably in the last 50 years, but turning that around means more than just growing business profits. It seems to me, if New Zealand business does well, then we all should do well — good profits should equal good wages. Except, according to some estimates, they don't.
– Presenter Nigel Latta on financial inconstancies in New Zealand society
I'm cocking this up completely, aren't I?
– Presenter Nigel Latta tries to milk a cow
This is the human condition. We like to believe that things are going to get better. And debt is such an easy way to supercharge your returns. The problem of course, is that when there are losses, it also supercharges those losses. And that’s what we're seeing in dairy right now.
– Economist Shamubeel Eaqub on large-scale debt in Aotearoa
I think prefabrication is the future of building, making buildings off-site, and I think the 21st century is the century of wood. Wood is going to be rediscovered as the building material.
– Former Xlam NZ Chief Executive Robin Jack on cheaper ways to build a house