"The fundamental issue is: In the world of the Internet, is there a place for a packager of services? Does the customer want to go surf the Net and go to every one of 50,000 Web sites? Or will people pay a reasonable amount for somebody to go out and preselect and package what they want? My guess is they will both coexist."

-- Lou Gerstner

#Issues Quotes #People Quotes #Doe Quotes

“pretty please, with a cherry on top of me!”
“Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want you....Hand over the whole natural self, all the desires which you think innocent as well as the ones you think wicked- the whole outfit. I will give you a new self instead. In fact, I will give you myself: my own will shall become yours.”
“I don't usually get to play sophisticated women. I usually do the old scrubs, chavs or slappers.”
“When you use the term 'cost per lead' you make marketing a cost center. Instead say 'investment per lead.'”
“I couldn't care less about what anybody else has to say.”
“Why is old considered useless? Because in old age, the emphasis shifts from doing to Being, and our civilization, which is lost in doing, knows nothing of Being. It asks: Being? What do you do with it?”
“Don't treat your customers like a bunch of purses and wallets.”
“For since it is impossible for a created monad to have a physical influence on the inner nature of another, this is the only way in which one can be dependent on another.”

Source : Alan Paton, Colin Oxenham Gardner (1975). “Knocking on the Door”, David Philip Publishers

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