"A surprising number of government committees will make important decisions on fundamental matters with less attention than each individual would give to buying a suit."

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Source : Herman Kahn, Paul Dragoș Aligică, Kenneth R. Weinstein (2009). “The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking”, p.209, Lexington Books

Herman Kahn

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“Companies that grow for the sake of growth or that expand into areas outside their core business strategy often stumble. On the other hand, companies that build scale for the benefit of their customers and shareholders more often succeed over time.”
“I wake up in the morning and I see that flower, with the dew on its petals, and at the way it's folding out, and it makes me happy, she said. It's important to focus on the things in the here and now, I think. In a month, the flower will be shriveled and you will miss its beauty if you don't make the effort to do it now. Your life, eventually, is the same way.”
“It was fun figuring out the science of the world as much as we wanted to figure out, and then playing fast and loose in other places. Which we do with our show in general. One of the things we love about the BoJack Horseman show is that we can always fall back on, "It's a ridiculous cartoon." And it is! It's a serious, relationship-based grounded character tragedy, but it is also a ridiculous cartoon.”
“I do admit to being slightly in love with Christopher Walken.”

Source : Interview with Cary Fukunaga, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 23, 2011.
“I do think that people get really emotionally involved in the TV shows that they love and I think that is fantastic. Of course they are going to have opinions. The other thing is that people project onto their television shows. They see a character and layer on many traits that are actually their own or their idea of what that character is.”
“Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.”
“I really learned how to improvise at the Groundlings.It's something I've always loved to do. For some reason it feels more honest at times.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“Business has only two basic functions - marketing and innovation.”

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