James E. Burke famous quotes

We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.
-- James E. Burke

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The key to why things change is the key to everything.
-- James E. Burke

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The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge. Provide you could pay and read, what was on the shelves in the new bookshops was yours for the taking. The speed with which printing presses and their operators fanned out across Europe is extraordinary. From the single Mainz press of 1457, it took only twenty-three years to establish presses in 110 towns: 50 in Italy, 30 in Germany, 9 in France, 8 in Spain, 8 in Holland, 4 in England, and so on.
-- James E. Burke

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The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge.
-- James E. Burke

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One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

When you get into this business you have to grow up quickly. But I wouldn't say I've lost any of my childhood, I've always been a mature child. My Mom says I've been like that since I was little kid. I make time for my friends and I make time for things that other kids do. This is a business and I knew what I was getting into. I make time for being a kid, but I also know when to put on my business hat and go for the business.

Latin food suffers like Chinese. You can do marginal Chinese and be successful. You can do crappy Mexican and be packed.

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

With Climate Change as a Security Risk, WBGU has compiled a flagship report on an issue that quite rightly is rising rapidly up the international political agenda. The authors pull no punches on the likelihood of increasing tensions and conflicts in a climatically constrained world and spotlight places where possible conflicts may flare up in the 21st century unless climate change is checked. The report makes it clear that climate policy is preventative security policy.

Risk is just an expensive substitute for information.

The job of dictator is now a high-risk job.

I'm brave to say that I won't take this sort of risk.

People need to learn to live with more risk.

A flatterer can risk everything with great personages.