Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast. Business Quotes, August 2010
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The document contains a collection of business quotes on various topics from innovation to social media to management. The quotes are attributed to well-known figures like Peter Drucker, Steve Jobs, and Henry Ford. Each quote is accompanied by an image credit and source.
![“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
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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.”
Herbert Simon
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Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast. Business Quotes, August 2010
- 2. “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 >
- 4. “One has to do something new in order to see something new.” Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Image credit: flickr.com/giorgiotomassetti/4790262687 >
- 6. “Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.” Clay Shirky Image credit: flickr.com/haraldfelgner/3656446341 >
- 8. “A line is a dot that went for a walk.” Paul Klee Image credit: flickr.com/haraldfelgner/2004459134 >
- 10. “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 >
- 12. “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 >
- 14. “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 >
- 16. “Rather be dead than cool.” Kurt Cobain Image credit: flickr.com/haraldfelgner/3440504351 >
- 18. “These are issues that we are going to have to address, because they are significant.” Ben Bernanke Image credit: flickr.com/haraldfelgner/3485973665 >
- 20. “One finds limits by pushing them.” Herbert Simon Image credit: flickr.com/kevinwhite/225709357 >
- 22. “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 >
- 24. “I spent 90% of my money on women and drink. The rest I wasted” George Best Image credit: flickr.com/phinz/3695488807 >
- 26. “[...] 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 >
- 28. “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” Woody Allen Image credit: flickr.com/haraldfelgner/1903389348 >
- 30. “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 >
- 32. “A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.” Groucho Marx Image credit: flickr.com/kenyee/2817511001 >
- 34. “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 >
- 36. “Fail early to succeed sooner.” Matt Hunter, Product Development, IDEO Image credit: flickr.com/antonkovalyov/3605921613 >
- 38. “Implement solutions, not features.” John Geleynse, Software Technology Evangelism, Apple Image credit: flickr.com/bgwilson89/2253180349 >
- 40. “Don't open a shop unless you like to smile.” Chinese Proverb Image credit: flickr.com/ucumari/696344991 >
- 42. “The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.” David Ogilvy Image credit: flickr.com/nationaalarchief/4193508328 >
- 44. “Before I speak, I have something important to say.” Groucho Marx Image credit: flickr.com/rickharris/3241285917 >
- 46. “Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.” Niels Bohr Image credit: flickr.com/quasimondo/98423379 >
- 48. “If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said a faster horse.” Henry Ford Image credit: flickr.com/haraldfelgner/3644756242 >
- 50. “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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