"I recall a conversation with the CEO of large electrical equipment MNC in which he began by asking me to guess how many innovation centres his firm had around the world. My guess was nowhere near the 160 that turned out to be the answer. Not surprisingly this CEO recognized that his firm's ability to innovate was being hampered by the huge size of their footprint which brought few benefits as it was inefficient, there was duplication across sites and competition between them. In this and most other cases, the costs of the expanded footprint outweigh the benefits."

-- Yves Doz

#Competition Quotes #Innovation Quotes #World Quotes

“I have never been able to resist a book about books.”

Source : Anne Fadiman (2011). “Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader”, p.139, Macmillan
“I think what we owe each other is a celebration of life and to replace fear and hopelessness with fearlessness and joy.”

Source : "Earth Democracy - an interview with Vandana Shiva". Interview with Sarah Ruth van Gelder, www.yesmagazine.org. December 31, 2002.
“Wing Chun teaches you what to concentrate on, whether you're here or out in the world dealing with problems. It's second nature for me now. I don't even get to the point where there's a problem.”
“Where would David Copperfield be if Dickens had gone to writing classes? Probably about seventy minor characters short, is where. (Did you know that Dickens is estimated to have invented thirteen thousand characters? Thirteen thousand! The population of a small town!)”
“Some people are born with the first word of a language resting on their tongue though it may take some time before they can taste it.”
“Writing when you are already very old means you have lived through the endings of so many things, you are more aware of the shape life takes. You begin to know Death, you've been close to it. But youth can barely imagine the end of this journey.”
“Presidents today spend more time speaking than they do reading or thinking.”
“The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change.”

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