The document contains a compilation of various business quotes from influential figures such as Steve Jobs, Peter Drucker, and Thomas Edison, addressing themes of innovation, communication, and problem-solving. Each quote emphasizes different aspects of creativity, efficiency, and the nature of work in the business world. These insights reflect both personal philosophies and broader truths about the challenges and opportunities within professional environments.

1. Business Quotes 2011

2. “There’s no chance that the
iPhone is going to get any
significant market share.
No chance.”
Steve Ballmer, USA TODAY CEO Forum, April 29, 2007
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4. “The inventors will invent,
for that is what inventors do.
The technology will come
first,
the products second,
and then
the needs will slowly appear.”
Don Norman
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6. “A computer shall not waste
your time
or require you to do
more work than is
strictly necessary.”
Jef Raskin
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8. “Just how do I design if not
with prototyping?
An excellent question.
The short answer is
on paper.”
Alan Cooper
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10. “The most important thing
in communication
is to hear
what isn't being said.”
Peter Drucker
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12. “We are
currently
not planning
on conquering the world.”
Sergey Brin
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14. “Basically, our goal is to
organize the world's
information
and to make it universally
accessible and useful.”
Larry Page, Businessweek, March 13, 2001
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16. “If I hold you any closer,
I'll be in back of you.”
Groucho Marx as Dr. Hackenbush
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18. “Nine women can't have a
baby in one month,
no matter how closely they
coordinate their work.”
Seth Godin A saying that has been around since the ice age
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20. “Opportunity is missed by
most because it comes
dressed in overalls and looks
like work.”
Thomas Edison
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22. “IT is not comparable to a
fully sequential engineering
system in which deliverables
result from planning,
designing, building, testing,
reworking, retesting, and
finalizing.”
Mark D. Lutchen, Former Global CIO of PWC
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24. “Do not believe that it is very
much of an advance
to do the unnecessary
three times as fast.”
Peter Drucker
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26. “One has to do something
new
in order to see something
new.”
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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28. “Institutions will try to
preserve the problem
to which they are the
solution.”
Clay Shirky
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30. “A line is a dot
that went for a walk.”
Paul Klee
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32. “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
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34. “Innovation is not about
saying yes to everything.
It’s about saying NO to all but
the most crucial features.”
Steve Jobs
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36. “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
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38. “Rather be dead than cool.”
Kurt Cobain
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40. “These are issues that we are
going to have to address,
because they are significant.”
Ben Bernanke
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42. “One finds limits
by pushing them.”
Herbert Simon
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44. “If we wait for the moment
when everything,
absolutely everything is ready,
we shall never begin.”
Ivan Turgenev
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46. “I spent 90% of my money on
women and drink.
The rest I wasted”
George Best
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48. “[...] 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
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50. “Eighty percent of success is
showing up.”
Woody Allen
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52. “Complexity that works is
built up out of
modules that work perfectly,
layered one over the other.”
Kevin Kelly
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54. “A child of five would
understand this.
Send someone to fetch a
child of five.”
Groucho Marx
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56. “I apologize for writing you a
long letter
but I didn’t have time to
write you a short one.”
Blaise Pascal
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58. “Fail early
to succeed sooner.”
Matt Hunter, Product Development, IDEO
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60. “Implement solutions,
not features.”
John Geleynse, Software Technology Evangelism, Apple
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62. “Don't open a shop
unless
you like to smile.”
Chinese Proverb
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64. “The best ideas
come as jokes.
Make your thinking
as funny as possible.”
David Ogilvy
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66. “Before I speak,
I have something
important to say.”
Groucho Marx
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68. “Prediction is very difficult,
especially about the future.”
Niels Bohr
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70. “If I’d asked my customers
what they wanted,
they’d have said
a faster horse.”
Henry Ford
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72. “Content precedes design.
Design in the absence of
content is not design,
it’s decoration.”
Jeffrey Zeldman
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