"The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be only sustainable competitive advantage."

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Source : "Planning as Learning". hbr.org. March 1988.

Arie de Geus

#Inspirational Quotes #Success Quotes #Sports Quotes

“People say, 'I love 'Snatch,' I love 'Lock Stock,'' but I want to be more than a movie name. I'd love to be more of a household name.”
“There are four things that make a man fight as you just did," the duke explained to Rumbold. "Love, despair, anger, or insanity." Erik counted them off on his fingers. "Everything to lose, nothing to lose, someone's taken it, or you've lost it.”

Source : Alethea Kontis (2012). “Enchanted”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“It is so important for young girls to be fit. I think sports is the key to success, because the challenges you face in sports prepare you for the rest of your life.”
“If a war has to happen, a war has to happen.”

Source : "In the Time of Gods : A Conversation With Dar Williams, Plus Chatting With The Sweet’s Andy Scott and Steve Barton". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 11, 2012.
“The novel as a form is usually seen to be moral if its readers consider freedom, individuality, democracy, privacy, social connection, tolerance and hope to be morally good, but it is not considered moral if the highest values of a society are adherence to rules and traditional mores, the maintenance of hierarchical relationships, and absolute ideas of right and wrong. Any society based on the latter will find novels inherently immoral and subversive.”
“I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world.”
“I never really thought about my music being universal. When I set out to write, it is just a feeling that feels good to me. I never thought about being able to reach everybody.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Basic research is not the same as development. A crash programme for the latter may be successful; but for the former it is like trying to make nine women pregnant at once in the hope of getting a baby in a month's time.”

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