Most buyers will pre-qualify two or three firms and then have to make a final decision which will be based around "chemistry", relationships, trust and confidence. Generally firms are not finally hired for technical reasons - David Maister
Mass customisation could be the organising principle of C21 - Fortune, 28/09/98 p69
Market share is an anachronism. What drives success today is market responsiveness - John Therbeck, CEO, Geo E Keith
It's better to be the head of a chicken than the tail of a cow - Stan Shih (b. 1945) Taiwanese C.E.O. of the Acer Group. Referring to a Taiwanese proverb and the preference of entrepreneurs for running their own small businesses. Quoted in Giant Killers (Geoffrey James; 1996)
Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution (aka the "Shirky Principle") - Kevin Kelly http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_Shirky
If you weren't already in this business, would you enter it today? If not, what are you going to do about it? - Peter Drucker
I have, half seriously, described myself as an organisational voyeur. It is a powerful way to learn. provided that it doesn't stop there and you do something with the ideas you glean - Charles Handy, The Elephant and the Flea, p165
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me - John Cleese (b. 1939) Referring to appearing in industrial training videos. Newsweek (June 15 1987)
I believe that you have to understand the economics of a business before you have a strategy, and you have to understand your strategy before you have a structure. If you get these in the wrong order, you will probably fail - Michael Dell (b. 1965)
Drive thy business or it will drive thee - Benjamin Franklin