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“The greatest risk lies in not knowing what you don’t know. In a fast changing marketplace such as the Internet, this trap seems to be so open and so wide.”
William (Walid) Mougayar, US management theorist. Referring to the challenge to managers of traditional industries of the new economy, Opening Digital Markets (1997)
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“Difficulties, opposition, criticism – these things are meant to be overcome, and there is a special joy in facing them and coming out on top.”
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (1900-90) Indian diplomat, quoted in The Envoy Extraordinary (Vera Brittain; 1965)
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“In my experience the worst thing you can do to an important problem is to discuss it.”
Simon Gray (1936-2008) British playwright, Otherwise Engaged (1975)
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“We live in an information economy. The problem is that information’s usually impossible to get, at least in the right place, at the right time.”
Steve Jobs (b. 1955) US entrepreneur, co-founder & CEO of Apple, interview ‘The Next Insanely Great Thing’ Wired Magazine (February 1996)
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“The worst possible thing… was to lie dead in the water with any problem. Solve it, solve it quickly… If you solved it wrong, it would come back and slap you in the face, and then you could solve it right.”
Thomas J. Watson Jr (1914-93) US CEO of IBM, quoted in ‘The Businessmen of the Century’, Fortune (22 November 1999)
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“Problems are the price of progress. Don’t bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.”
Charles Franklin Kettering (1876-1958) US businessman & engineer, quoted in Strategy + Business (1997)
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“Traditional business defaults to the familiar; it’s easy, comfortable, and bonus-building to rely on old business models, outdated templates, yesterday’s strategies.”
Faith Popcorn (b. 1947) US trend expert & founder of BrainReserve, EVEolution (2000)
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“One must think until it hurts. One must worry a problem in one’s mind until it seems there cannot be another aspect of it that hasn’t been considered.”
Roy Herbert Thomson (1894-1976) British media entrepreneur, founder & chairman of the Thomson Organisation, After I Was Sixty (1975)
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“’My door is always open – bring me your problems’. This is guaranteed to turn on every whiner, lackey, and neurotic on the property.”
Robert F. Six (1907-86) US airline executive
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“The problem of our age is the administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship.”
Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) US industrialist & philanthropist, The Gospel of Wealth (1889)
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