"If you wait for customers to tell you that you need to do something, you're too late. Good business leaders should be half a step ahead of what customers want, i.e. they don't actually quite know they want it. That's what innovation's about. With Plan A, we didn't wait for the consumers to tell us."

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Source : "Sir Stuart Rose on the changing role of business leaders". www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2012.

Stuart Rose

#Leader Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Innovation Quotes

“A parent's job is to encourage kids to develop a joy for life and a great urge to follow their own dreams. The best we can do is to help thm develop a personal set of tools for the task.”
“I think all writing is done through memory”
“That economics and finance are often covered as technical subjects, sort of boring subjects, and either you already know a lot about it and you follow it, or you don't know much about it and you don't want to know.”
“To tell you the truth, man, we spend most of the time travelling in hotels, in festivals, in concert halls, clubs, airports. The most unenjoyable part is all the security at airports.”
“Mathematics education is much more complicated than you expected, even though you expected it to be more complicated than you expected.”
“Music is my life. The last job I had, I was a bricklayer's apprentice. And I was happy with that job, too, because it was something that made me feel good. To build a wall for the side of a building felt really good to me.”
“Don't wait until the moment of crisis. Plan ahead, hide God's Word in your heart, and pray in advance for victory, holiness, and a life pleasing to God.”
“Like most photographers, I try to capture a moment in my work.”

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