Incrementalism

Posted by jonathan Posted on 12:58 AM
Incrementalism is innovation’s worst enemy.

quote by Nicholas Negroponte, MIT Media Lab
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300 ! Celebrate !

Posted by jonathan Posted on 11:54 PM
Celebrate what you want to see more of.

quote by Thomas J. Peters

This is quote number 300 on Quotes for Business !
Thank you all, contributors and readers
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Prosperity / recession

Posted by jonathan Posted on 9:44 AM
Prosperity is when people buy things they can't afford; recession is when they stop doing it.

quote by H. Martz
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Recession wisdom - 1933

Posted by jonathan Posted on 9:36 AM
Surely the ability to get laughter out of trivial things, under miserable conditions, is not an entirely worthless result of the depression.
I have little hope of getting started again in my former business,
so I can have the thrill of planning my future all over again.

Quote by Gordon Byron, December 1933
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The art of war

Posted by jonathan Posted on 12:47 AM
The clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.

quote by Sun Tzu
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Consulting

Posted by jonathan Posted on 4:40 AM
If you're not part of the solution
there is good money to be made in prolonging the problem
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Clarke on innovation

Posted by jonathan Posted on 12:56 AM
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

quote by Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future
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Demagogue

Posted by jonathan Posted on 7:36 AM

The secret of the demagogue is to make herself as stupid as her audience so that they believe they are as clever as she is.

Seen in NY, 5th Avenue

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Barrier to success

Posted by jonathan Posted on 12:52 AM
The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.

quote by Sven Goran Eriksson
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Design

Posted by jonathan Posted on 1:24 AM
A good design is not a democratic consensus.

quote by Edward de Bono
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Luck

Posted by jonathan Posted on 12:50 AM
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

quote by Seneca, Roman Philosopher
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Mediocre work

Posted by jonathan Posted on 1:20 AM
The quickest way to kill the human spirit is to ask someone to do mediocre work.

quote by Ayn Rand
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The art of war

Posted by jonathan Posted on 12:44 AM
To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence;
supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

quote by Sun Tzu, the Art of War
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The artist

Posted by jonathan Posted on 1:21 PM
The artist is nothing without gift, but gift is nothing without work.

quote by Emile Zola
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Internet = anarchy experiment

Posted by jonathan Posted on 1:10 PM
The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand,
the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.

quote by Eric Schmidt
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Simplicity in measurement

Posted by jonathan Posted on 12:27 AM
Simplicity applies to measurement also. Too often we measure everything and understand nothing.

quote by Jack Welch
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