“One important thing that you have to remember is that the human brain is always looking for instant gratification and instant results which is why many of us end up spending more budget on making our office or store prettier rather than on marketing.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“Lefever describes his financing plan with modesty:
"'Our detailed budget is realistic, but does not take into account the inflation that may occur before September 1983. The one place it could cut or reduce is item 7, the simultaneous interpreter services, if these services could be provided gratis by the U.S. government.'"
"In other words, the only way to make a saving on a U.S.-subsidized project is to take money out of another U.S.-subsidized column.”
“Building relationships on a global scale requires putting human beings on the ground in regions all over the world—and only the Army has the manpower to do this.”
Source: How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon
“Your budget will tell the funder instantly
if you know what you're doing.”
Source: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Grant Writing
“A 3% budget increase is a timid goal in a business environment where timidity/ irresoluteness loses”
“Ads don’t thrive because of big budgets, they thrive because someone is watching, learning, and refining with patience.”
Source: The 60-Day Brand Breakthrough: A Complete Marketing Roadmap for New Brands
“The notion that elections cannot be allowed to change economic policy, indeed any policy, is a gift to [founder and leader of Singapore] Lee Kuan Yew supporters or indeed the Chinese communist party, who also believe this to be true. There is of course a long tradition of doubting the efficacy of the democratic process. But I would like to think that his tradition has been expelled long ago from the heart of Europe. It now seems that the euro crisis has brought it back. I urge you all to band together in a collective bid to resist it. Democracy is not a luxury to be afforded to the creditors and denied to the debtors. Indeed, it is the lack of democratic process in the heart of our monetary union that is perpetuating the euro crisis. Then again, I might be wrong. Colleagues, if you think that I am wrong, if you agree with Wolfgang, then I invite you to say so explicitly by proposing that elections should be suspended in countries like Greece until the country's programme is completed. What is the point of spending money on elections and asking our people to get all fired up to elect governments that will have no capacity to change anything?”
Source: Adults in the Room: My Battle with Europe's Deep Establishment
“Firestarters aren’t born lucky. They manufacture it.”
Source: Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life
“America has been much better than almost every other country at resisting the temptation to interfere with the logic of creative destruction. In most of the world, politicians have made a successful business out of promising the benefits of creative destruction without the costs. Communists have blamed the costs on capitalist greed. Populists have blamed them on sinister vested interests. European-style socialists have taken a more mature approach, admitting that creation and destruction are bound together, but claiming to be able to boost the creative side of creative destruction while eliminating the destructive side through a combination of demand management and wise intervention. The result has usually been disappointing: stagnation, inflation, or some other crisis.”
Source: Capitalism in America: An Economic History of the United States
“The early years of Scottish Natural Heritage in the early 1990s was a time of promise and hope for nature, an era when we thought we could do great things for Scotland's wildlife and environment.”
Source: Restoring the Wild: Sixty Years of Rewilding Our Skies, Woods and Waterways