"Creativity is the crucial variable in the process of turning knowledge into value"

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Source : John Kao (2009). “Jamming: Art and Discipline of Business Creativit”, p.7, Harper Collins

John Kao

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“I love Joan Collins. She's a wonderful lady. She has such courage. She's such a good actress.”
“It's really nice meeting people after a concert. Still, it's very weird to be at the center of a group of 30 people all listening to what you're saying. When that group turns into 300 people, it goes on from weird. Some people revel in it, and I don't.”
“Every season, I take the opportunity to convey a much larger message than just hemlines and trends.”
“Targeting investment returns leads investors to focus on potential upside rather on downside risk ... rather than targeting a desired rate of return, even an eminently reasonable one, investors should target risk.”
“Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.”
“[They say] "We do not know how this is, but we know that God can do it." You poor fools! God can make a cow out of a tree, but has He ever done so? Therefore show some reason why a thing is so, or cease to hold that it is so.”
“All that mattered was that something had struck the match, and Gansey was burning.”
“I think, on the whole that scientists make slightly better husbands and fathers than most of us, and I admire them for it.”

Source : C.P. Snow (2010). “The Physicists”, p.91, House of Stratus

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