"Knowledge is power. In post-capitalism, power comes from transmitting information to make it productive, not hiding it."

-- Peter Drucker

#Communication Quotes #Information Quotes #Hiding Quotes

“Coincidence is just a safe conformist for fate.”
“Since you control a federal budget that has just been increased from $17.8 billion last year to $19.2 billion this year, is asking people like you if we should continue with our nation's current drug policy like a person asking a barber if one needs a haircut?”

Source : "Is Our Drug Policy Failing? Don't Ask". articles.latimes.com. March 29, 2000.
“The studios have their list of five actresses and whether they're right or wrong for a role doesn't matter. It's how much money their last movie made.”
“It is not the enactment, but the observance of laws, that creates the character of a nation.”
“If you're true to yourself, it doesn't matter where you record your music or where you say you're from. I am an artist from Texas, proud to be from Texas, but I play my own kind of music, my brand of country music.”
“As I said in my last book, birds are mean. They're the only pet that, when they escape, the owners are relieved. You can tell a species is evil by doing this simple math. If my blond lab Molly was the size of T-Rex, that would just mean more kibble, more work for the gardener in the backyard, and a harder time moving her to my wife's side of the bed at night. If birds were the size of a T-Rex, the streets would be littered with human remains.”
“It applies in any business. Shoemakers should be run by shoe guys, and software firms by software guys, and supermarkets by supermarket guys. With the advice and support of their bean counters, absolutely, but with the final word going to those who live and breathe the customer experience. Passion and drive for excellence will win over the computer-like, dispassionate, analysis-driven philosophy every time.”

Source : Bob Lutz (2011). “Car Guys vs. Bean Counters: The Battle for the Soul of American Business”, p.8, Penguin
“In the beginning Man created God: and in the image of Man created he him.”

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