"Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity."

-- Gary Hamel

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“[C]ultivated risk-taking represents an 'experiment with trust' (in the sense of basic trust) which consequently has implications for an individual's self-identity. (...) In cultivated risk-taking, the encounter with danger and its resolution are bound up in the same activity, whereas in other consequential settings the payoff of chosen strategies may not be seen for years afterwards.”
“When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.”
“I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.”
“People first feel things without noticing them, then notice them with inner distress and disturbance, and finally reflect on them with a clear mind.”
“There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business.”
“I don't feel bound by the ebbs and flows of musical trends, or what's happening with new music in general. I always had a fascination with that sound. It's a mixture of the idea that something could be going wrong along with the idea of bending constrained, Westernized music out of tune. But because I wasn't copying an idea, and it just came from somewhere inside me, it felt like a birth of something that most people didn't understand at the time.”
“In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they wantâ€”not only you, your whole family and all people like you.”
“In places like Germany or France the idea of black-white is not so much black-white but "our people and them," and "them" can be people from the near east like Turks or Muslims or North Africans, all of whom might well be considered white in the United States.”

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