Business Quotes 2010.11

Alan Cooper

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“Just how do I design if not with prototyping?

An excellent question.The short answer is

on paper.”

Peter Drucker

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“The most important thingin communication

is to hearwhat isn't being said.”

Sergey Brin

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“We arecurrently

not planningon conquering the world.”

Larry Page in Businessweek, March 13, 2001

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“Basically, our goal is to organize the world's

informationand to make it universally

accessible and useful.”

 Groucho Marx as Dr. Hackenbush

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“If I hold you any closer,I'll be in back of you.”

Seth Godin A saying that has been around since the ice age

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“Nine women can't have a baby in one month,

no matter how closely they coordinate their work.”

Thomas Edison

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“Opportunity is missed by most because it comes

dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

Mark D. Lutchen, Former Global CIO of PWC

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“IT is not comparable to a fully sequential engineering

system in which deliverables result from planning,

designing, building, testing, reworking, retesting, and

finalizing.”

Peter Drucker

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“Do not believe that it is very much of an advance

to do the unnecessarythree times as fast.”

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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“One has to do something new

in order to see something new.”

Clay Shirky

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“Institutions will try to preserve the problemto which they are the

solution.”

Paul Klee

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“A line is a dotthat went for a walk.”

Jyri Engeström

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“The term ‘social networking’ makes little sense if we leave out the objects that mediate the ties between people. [...]

The fallacy is to think that social networks are just made

up of people.”

Steve Jobs

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“Innovation is not about saying yes to everything.

It’s about saying NO to all but the most crucial features.”

The Cluetrain Manifesto

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“The long silence — the interruption of the human

conversation — is coming to an end. On the Internet,

markets are getting more connected and more

powerfully vocal every day.”

Kurt Cobain

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“Rather be dead than cool.”

Ben Bernanke

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“These are issues that we are going to have to address,

because they are significant.”

Herbert Simon

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“One finds limitsby pushing them.”

Ivan Turgenev

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“If we wait for the moment when everything,

absolutely everything is ready,we shall never begin.”

George Best

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“I spent 90% of my money on women and drink.The rest I wasted”

Herbert Simon

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“[...] a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention,

and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among

the overabundance of information sources

that might consume it.”

Woody Allen

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“Eighty percent of success is showing up.”

Kevin Kelly

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“Complexity that works is built up out of

modules that work perfectly,layered one over the other.”

Groucho Marx

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“A child of five would understand this.

Send someone to fetch a child of five.”

Blaise Pascal

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“I apologize for writing you a long letter

but I didn’t have time to write you a short one.”

Matt Hunter, Product Development, IDEO

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“Fail earlyto succeed sooner.”

John Geleynse, Software Technology Evangelism, Apple

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“Implement solutions,not features.”

Chinese Proverb

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“Don't open a shopunless

you like to smile.”

David Ogilvy

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“The best ideascome as jokes.

Make your thinkingas funny as possible.”

Groucho Marx

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“Before I speak,I have somethingimportant to say.”

Niels Bohr

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“Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.”

Henry Ford

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“If I’d asked my customers what they wanted,

they’d have saida faster horse.”

Jeffrey Zeldman

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“Content precedes design. Design in the absence of

content is not design,it’s decoration.”

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