“It's not like it used to be where everybody has a record company to belong to.” UsedCompanyRecordsUsed To BeRecord Companies Author:Edwin Starr
“Buying a car used to be an experience so soul-scorching, so confidence-splattering, so existentially rattling that an entire car company was based on the promise that you wouldn't have to come in contact with it.” SoulUsedCompanyCarPromiseContactUsed To BeBuyingScorchingBuying A Car Author:Susan Orlean
“The way music reflects real life, the way that painstakingly, over the years, what I have said is really a metaphor for what's happening to America. It used to be about, or tried to be at the very beginning, about what was right. It has stopped being what was right for America; it started being about what was right for companies that are in control.” WayYearsSaidRealAmericaUsedCompanyHappeningsMetaphorReal LifeUsed To Be Author:Immortal Technique
“It used to be that companies with industrial economies of scale created business success. Now, success will come from the information economies of scale, either the ones with complete breadth, or complete depth.” UsedCompanyEconomyInformationDepthScalesUsed To BeBusiness SuccessBreadth Author:Tucker Max
“It's no longer terribly sexy to own shares in certain companies; it used to be that being a shareholder in a corporation would connect you with it. The result is that people really want to invest in valuable things, and contemporary art has become a very stable material value with great growth potential.” PeopleWantArtUsedCertainValuesGrowthResultsCompanyShareMaterialsValuableSexyContemporaryUsed To BeCorporationsStableShareholdersContemporary ArtValuable Things Author:Thomas Koerfer
“Once a company has adapted to a new environment, it is no longer the organization it used to be; it has evolved. That is the essence of learning.” UsedCompanyEnvironmentEssenceOrganizationUsed To BeAdaptedNew Environment Author:Arie de Geus
“There are companies which are prepared to change the way they work. They realize that nothing can be based on what used to be, that there is a better way. But, 99 percent of companies are not ready, [they are] caught in an industrial Jurassic Park.” WayUsedRealizingCompanyReadyPercentPreparedCaughtUsed To BeParksBetter WaysNot ReadyJurassic Park Author:Ricardo Semler