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Never fall in love with an idea. They’re whores: If the one you’re with isn’t doing the job, there’s always, always, always another.

Content: Quotation | Source: Business 2.0 | Subject: Thought

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong, it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.

Content: Quotation | Source: Darwin Magazine | Subjects: Observations, Success / Failure

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

Content: Quotation | Source: The Abraham Group | Subjects: Achievement, Life

You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him discover it within himself.

Content: Quotation | Source: The Abraham Group | Subject: Teaching

When it becomes necessary to develop a new perception of things, a new internal model of reality, the problem is never to get new ideas in, the problem is to get the old ideas out. Every mind is full of old furniture. It’s familiar. It’s comfortable. We hate to throw it out. The old maxim, so often applied to the physical world, “Nature abhors a … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: ManagementLearning.com | Subject: Thought

When introducing a radically new product, it is necessary to understand how consumers currently frame their experience of the problem addressed by the new offering. That is, no matter how radical a new product is, it will always be perceived initially in terms of some frame of reference.

Content: Quotation | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Marketing / Sales, Perception

A society that has no rules is abhorrent, but a society that only stays within the letter of the law is not much better.

Content: Quotation | Source: scotsman.com | Subjects: Business Rules, Wisdom

Metaphor is the currency of knowledge. I have spent my life learning incredible amounts of disparate, disconnected, obscure, useless pieces of knowledge, and they have turned out to be, almost all of them, extremely useful.

Content: Quotation | Source: MarketingProfs | Subject: Knowledge

..you don’t search for an idea. You search for questions. Every single major piece of work I have been involved with came because some great student asked me a question that I could only stare at and say, “that’s a great question. I will have to get back to you.”

Content: Quotation | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Opportunity

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Measurement, Wisdom

What, then, can be done about chronically unemployable people? What can businesses do? My answer would not be a new social compact, but a determination to remember the old one more precisely and live up to it more intelligently.

The old compact had always assumed that companies would self-interestedly support certain government actions to enforce the rules of the competitive game. Government would police property … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Government, Miscellaneous

…companies were not designed to be engines of social good. Rather, it was the competition among companies that was designed to be an engine of social good… companies contribute to democratic solutions by remaining capable of creating the wealth shareholders and governments appropriate, not by taking on the responsibilities of governments.

Content: Quotation | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Government, Social Responsibility (ESG)

Our choices are always broader than our past. The best adventures in life need to be chosen, not from a predetermined menu based on what we’ve done already, but rather out of our deepest sense of who we are and how we can contribute to the world.

Content: Quotation | Source: Amazon.com | Subjects: Experience, Potential

Information is not always power…Privilege and power accrue to those who have the capacity to define the systems within which information will be exchanged.

Content: Quotation | Source: Business 2.0 | Subjects: Information, Power / Authority

You can count the number of seeds in an apple, but you can’t count the number of apples in a seed.

Content: Quotation | Source: Line56 | Subjects: Future, Potential

The teacher, if indeed wise, does not bid you to enter the house of their wisdom, but leads you to the threshold of your own mind.

Content: Quotation | Source: Abraham.com | Subjects: Teaching, Wisdom

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions that move with him like flies on a summer’s day.

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Personality / Behavior, Philosophy

The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size.

Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subjects: Personal Development, Thought

The significant problems we face today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.

Content: Quotation | Subject: Problems / Solutions

Here is a simple but powerful rule … always give people more than they expect to get.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Management, Wisdom