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There are two things in particular that it [the computer industry] failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet(...); the other was the fact that the century would end. – Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior. Ordinarily, this means that any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate that all other competitors are at a distinct disadvantage. – Bruce Henderson	added by anonymous 13 years ago
In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry of idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe. – Mrs. Sigourney	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him. – Benjamin Franklin	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement. – James Goldsmith	added by anonymous 13 years ago
God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry. – Wilberforce	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever. – Samuel Smiles	added by anonymous 13 years ago
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. – Abraham Lincoln	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration. – Andrew Carnegie	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit. – Mark Twain	added by anonymous 14 years ago
My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. (On steel industry executives who increased prices) – John Fitzgerald Kennedy	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called education. School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you. – John Updike	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult. – Samuel Johnson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Personally, I'm in favor of democracy, which means that the central institutions of society have to be under popular control. Now, under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an industry is, if we were to think of it in political terms, fascist that is, it has tight control at the top and strict obedience has to be establishedat every level--there's little bargaining, a little give and take,but the line of authority is perfectly straightforward. Just as I'm opposed to political fascism, I'm opposed to economic fascism. I think that until the major institutions of society are under the popular control of participants and communities, it's pointless to talk about democracy. – Noam Chomsky	added by anonymous 14 years ago
From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of 8,000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone. – Barbara Ehrenreich	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as candle making industry threatened. – Newt Gingrich	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others. – Jean de la Bruyere	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Imagination, industry, and intelligence-the three I's-are all indispensable to the actress, but of these three the greatest is, without doubt, imagination. – Ellen Terry	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune. – Richard Whately	added by anonymous 14 years ago
In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe. – Lydia Sigourney	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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