Good design can't fix broken business models.
Jeffrey Veen
Good design can't fix broken business models.Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
A poor idea well written is more likely to be accepted than a good idea poorly written.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual transaction with the future; it is an ongoing calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight..Successfully writing business plans is the art of collecting varying kinds of information (commonly called "data") which a few people possess, and of transmitting it to a select number of people who are supposed to desire to share it.
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.
Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.An image . . . is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.
Power in a corporation becomes residual and dwells in the background. It is the ability to exercise nice matters of judgment.
Financial advisors guide decision, though the client must make them. The best advice a consultant can give is: Be the chess player, not the chess piece.
Facts do not give advice. The best advisors provide the facts.
A bank is a confidence trick. If you put up the right signs, the wizards of finance themselves will come in and ask you to take their money.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. The second step is to have a consultant guide you on the path.
Sincere advice may offend the ear but is beneficial to one’s conduct.
For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
The most successful industries thrive on producing those things everyone needs every day.
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
Greed is not good, as they say in movies. It is simply stupid. Each time it becomes evident, nothing but trouble ensues.A consultant is a mentor in whom you can take confidence that his purpose is to show you where you want to go and how to get there safely.
The true test of a brilliant theory [is] what first is thought to be wrong is later shown to be obvious.
Corporate risk takers are very much like entrepreneurs. They take personal risks to make new ideas happen.
Value is the most invincible and impalpable of ghosts, and comes and goes unthought of while the visible and dense matter remains as it was.
Finance is merely a matter of the heart being in the right place. The consultant helps to push hearts in the best direction.The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers. People and effort make success.In business a reputation for keeping absolutely to the letter and spirit of an agreement, even when it is unfavorable, is the most precious of assets, although it is not entered in the balance sheet.