Quotes
Authors
Arthur Demarest
"One of our great strength, world capitalism, is the most successful economic system possible, but has also become one of shorter and shorter cycles of evaluation. CEOs, companies, stocks, profits and debits change at an ever more accelerated pace in response to the demands of stockholders and the market. We have already experienced some consequences of the shortening cycle of decision making in business, but those are minor in relation to the grand systemic collapse that always eventually results from such accelerating and shortening periods for leadership goals." --
Source : Source: www.pbs.org
Arthur Demarest
#Successful Quotes
#Goal Quotes
#Decision Quotes
“Your children....are like diamonds...they may need polish.. and education of the right kind will impart this lustre.”
“The fundamental biological variant is DNA. That is why Mendel's definition of the gene as the unvarying bearer of hereditary traits, its chemical identification by Avery (confirmed by Hershey), and the elucidation by Watson and Crick of the structural basis of its replicative invariance, are without any doubt the most important discoveries ever made in biology. To this must be added the theory of natural selection, whose certainty and full significance were established only by those later theories.”
Source : Obituary at CalTech, September 7, 2005.
“The visual is everywhere in the streets, but in the industry, it's like you have to show up at this party and you can't take on the world in one day. It's a gradual process, but you can't let it frustrate you; you just have to keep grinding.”
Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“For most of my life, I've been, ‘Hey, I'm not into it, but I respect your right to believe whatever you want'. But as time goes on, weirdly, I'm growing less liberal. I'm more like, 'No, religion is ruining the world, you need to stop!’”
“Do not get yourself into the illusion that there is something so unique about the question of organ or body parts ... that the general rules of economics do not apply.”
“I would prefer not to throw myself on a funeral pyre. Please come back to me.”
Source : Eloisa James (2011). “A Kiss At Midnight: Number 1 in series”, p.209, Hachette UK
“Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.”
“Talk to your customers. Find out what they need. Don't pay any attention to the competition. They're not relevant to you.”
