Business Quotes, September 2010

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Business Quotes 2010.09


“Nine women can't have a baby in one month, no matter how closely they coordinate their work.� Seth Godin Image credit: flickr.com/photographi_esc_/2797736030 >



“Opportunity is missed by most because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.� Thomas Edison Image credit: flickr.com/osucommons/3724236532 >



“IT is not comparable to a fully sequential engineering system in which deliverables result from planning, designing, building, testing, reworking, retesting, and finalizing.� Mark D. Lutchen, Former Global CIO of PWC Image credit: flickr.com/astrablog/4133302216 >



“Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast.� Peter Drucker Image credit: flickr.com/mini82/1198278806 >



“One has to do something new in order to see something new.� Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Image credit: flickr.com/giorgiotomassetti/4790262687 >



“Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.� Clay Shirky Image credit: flickr.com/haraldfelgner/3656446341 >



“A line is a dot that went for a walk.� Paul Klee Image credit: flickr.com/haraldfelgner/2004459134 >



“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.” Jyri Engeström Image credit: flickr.com/lwallenstein/3867427676 >



“Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It’s about saying NO to all but the most crucial features.” Steve Jobs Image credit: flickr.com/iamthestig2/3505659428 >



“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.” The Cluetrain Manifesto Image credit: flickr.com/mogmismo/3564024948 >



“Rather be dead than cool.� Kurt Cobain Image credit: flickr.com/haraldfelgner/3440504351 >



“These are issues that we are going to have to address, because they are significant.� Ben Bernanke Image credit: flickr.com/haraldfelgner/3485973665 >



“One finds limits by pushing them.� Herbert Simon Image credit: flickr.com/kevinwhite/225709357 >



“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.� Ivan Turgenev Image credit: flickr.com/miikka_skaffari/3228249024 >



“I spent 90% of my money on women and drink. The rest I wasted� George Best Image credit: flickr.com/phinz/3695488807 >



“[...] 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.� Herbert Simon Image credit: flickr.com/aasgier/2414686179 >



“Eighty percent of success is showing up.” Woody Allen Image credit: flickr.com/haraldfelgner/1903389348 >



“Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other.� Kevin Kelly Image credit: flickr.com/haraldfelgner/3646390382 >



“A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.� Groucho Marx Image credit: flickr.com/kenyee/2817511001 >



“I apologize for writing you a long letter but I didn’t have time to write you a short one.” Blaise Pascal Image credit: flickr.com/kevint/7854090 >



“Fail early to succeed sooner.” Matt Hunter, Product Development, IDEO Image credit: flickr.com/antonkovalyov/3605921613 >



“Implement solutions, not features.� John Geleynse, Software Technology Evangelism, Apple Image credit: flickr.com/bgwilson89/2253180349 >



“Don't open a shop unless you like to smile.� Chinese Proverb Image credit: flickr.com/ucumari/696344991 >



“The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.� David Ogilvy Image credit: flickr.com/nationaalarchief/4193508328 >



“Before I speak, I have something important to say.� Groucho Marx Image credit: flickr.com/rickharris/3241285917 >



“Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.” Niels Bohr Image credit: flickr.com/quasimondo/98423379 >



“If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said a faster horse.” Henry Ford Image credit: flickr.com/haraldfelgner/3644756242 >



“Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it’s decoration.” Jeffrey Zeldman Image credit: flickr.com/wongjunhao/22677518115 >



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