“It is quite possible that future generations will look upon arguments about the inferiority of the socialist plan as we look upon Adam Smith's argument about joint stock companies which, also, were simply false.” LooksCompanyPlansGenerationsArgumentLook UpAdamSocialistJointsFuture GenerationInferiorityJoint Stock Company Book:Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy Source: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
“A companion is but another self; wherefore it is an argument that a man is wicked if he keep company with the wicked.” IfsMenSelfCompanyArgumentWickedCompanion Author:Pope Clement I
“Preserve the core, and let the rest flux. In their wonderful bestseller Built to Last, authors James Collins and Jerry Porras make a convincing argument that long-lived companies are able to thrive 50 years or more by retaining a very small heart of unchanging values, and then stimulating progress in everything else. At times "everything" includes changing the business the company operates in, migrating, say, from mining to insurance. Outside the core of values, nothing should be exempt from flux. Nothing.” ShouldYearsHeartLongAbleLastsValuesBusinessCompanyProgressWonderfulBuiltArgumentCorePreservesThriveConvincingJerryMiningFluxUnchangingRetaining Author:Kevin Kelly
“Heydrich, Eichmann, and company therefore invoke the usual trick of argument for breaking a true continuum that lacks a compelling point for separation: choose an arbitrary dividing line and then treat it as a self-evident law of nature.” SelfLawLinesCompanyArgumentTreatsSeparationTricksUsualCompellingEvidentArbitraryLaws Of NatureDividingInvokeContinuum Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“We like people who are honest. Honest in argument, honest with clients, honest with suppliers, honest with the company - and above all, honest with consumers.” PeopleCompanyHonestArgumentConsumersClientsSuppliers Book:The Unpublished David Ogilvy Source: The Unpublished David Ogilvy