"Since today's companies are totally dependent on a continuing human membership that produces a superior intellectual output in comparison to the competition, then there is inevitably a fight over the right to the bottom line."

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Source : "Arie de Geus: The Thought Leader Interview". Interview with S+B, www.strategy-business.com. April 1, 2001.

Arie de Geus

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“We're not the States of America; we're the United States of America. If states don't get what they need, we're not going to have a successful plan, period.”
“Find moments in your life in which you had communication with people. You will see that most of our tensions, disappointments , sorrows, pain, and anxiety are the result of a break in our communication.”
“Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.”
“My attention span is very limited, and I watch just one or two movies a year.”
“We all go a little mad sometimes.”

Source : "Fictional character: Norman Bates". "Psycho", www.imdb.com. 1960.
“You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself.”
“Of the two powers, the two categories that take possession of us when we enter the world, space is by far the less mysterious. . . . Space is, after all, solid, monolithic. . . . Time, on the other hand, is a hostile element, truly treacherous, I would say even against human nature.”
“The ideal trademark is one that is pushed to its utmost limits in terms of abstraction and ambiguity, yet is still readable. Trademarks are usually metaphors of one kind or another. And are, in a certain sense, thinking made visible.”

Source : "Saul Bass: A Life in Film & Design by Jennifer Bass and Pat Kirkham - review" by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2011.

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