A slide series with famous and not so well-known quotes. Issue 7 in 2010. Jyri Engeström, Steve Jobs, The Cluetrain Manifesto, Kurt Cobain, Ben Bernanke, Ivan Turgenev, George Best, Herbert Simon, Woody Allen, Kevin Kelly, Groucho Marx, Blaise Pascal, Matt Hunter, John Geleynse, A Chinese Proverb, David Ogilvy, Groucho Marx, Niels Bohr, Henry Ford, Jeffrey Zeldman.

1. Business Quotes 2010.07

2. “The term ‘social networking’
makes little sense if we leave
out the objects that mediate
the ties between people. [...]
The fallacy is to think that
social networks are just made
up of people.”
Jyri Engeström
Image credit: flickr.com/lwallenstein/3867427676 >

4. “Innovation is not about
saying yes to everything.
It’s about saying NO to all but
the most crucial features.”
Steve Jobs
Image credit: flickr.com/iamthestig2/3505659428 >

6. “The long silence — the
interruption of the human
conversation — is coming to
an end. On the Internet,
markets are getting more
connected and more
powerfully vocal every day.”
The Cluetrain Manifesto
Image credit: flickr.com/mogmismo/3564024948 >

8. “Rather be dead than cool.”
Kurt Cobain
Image credit: flickr.com/haraldfelgner/3440504351 >

10. “These are issues that we are
going to have to address,
because they are significant.”
Ben Bernanke
Image credit: flickr.com/haraldfelgner/3485973665 >

12. “One finds limits
by pushing them.”
Herbert Simon
Image credit: flickr.com/kevinwhite/225709357 >

14. “If we wait for the moment
when everything,
absolutely everything is ready,
we shall never begin.”
Ivan Turgenev
Image credit: flickr.com/miikka_skaffari/3228249024 >

16. “I spent 90% of my money on
women and drink.
The rest I wasted”
George Best
Image credit: flickr.com/phinz/3695488807 >

18. “[...] a wealth of information
creates a poverty of attention,
and a need to allocate that
attention efficiently among
the overabundance of
information sources
that might consume it.”
Herbert Simon
Image credit: flickr.com/aasgier/2414686179 >

20. “Eighty percent of success is
showing up.”
Woody Allen
Image credit: flickr.com/haraldfelgner/1903389348 >

22. “Complexity that works is
built up out of
modules that work perfectly,
layered one over the other.”
Kevin Kelly
Image credit: flickr.com/haraldfelgner/3646390382 >

24. “A child of five would
understand this.
Send someone to fetch a
child of five.”
Groucho Marx
Image credit: flickr.com/kenyee/2817511001 >

26. “I apologize for writing you a
long letter
but I didn’t have time to
write you a short one.”
Blaise Pascal
Image credit: flickr.com/kevint/7854090 >

28. “Fail early
to succeed sooner.”
Matt Hunter, Product Development, IDEO
Image credit: flickr.com/antonkovalyov/3605921613 >

30. “Implement solutions,
not features.”
John Geleynse, Software Technology Evangelism, Apple
Image credit: flickr.com/bgwilson89/2253180349 >

32. “Don't open a shop
unless
you like to smile.”
Chinese Proverb
Image credit: flickr.com/ucumari/696344991 >

34. “The best ideas
come as jokes.
Make your thinking
as funny as possible.”
David Ogilvy
Image credit: flickr.com/nationaalarchief/4193508328 >

36. “Before I speak,
I have something
important to say.”
Groucho Marx
Image credit: flickr.com/rickharris/3241285917 >

38. “Prediction is very difficult,
especially about the future.”
Niels Bohr
Image credit: flickr.com/quasimondo/98423379 >

40. “If I’d asked my customers
what they wanted,
they’d have said
a faster horse.”
Henry Ford
Image credit: flickr.com/haraldfelgner/3644756242 >

42. “Content precedes design.
Design in the absence of
content is not design,
it’s decoration.”
Jeffrey Zeldman
Image credit: flickr.com/wongjunhao/22677518115 >

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