“Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is...opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.” IfsMayCharacterDoorsExampleBenefitsHighestImportanceWorthyOpeningInstructionImitationCourtesyEnabling Author:Michel de Montaigne
“User experience is really the whole totality. Opening the package good example. It's the total experience that matters. And that starts from when you first hear about a product experience is more based upon memory than reality. If your memory of the product is wonderful, you will excuse all sorts of incidental things.” IfsFirstsMatterWholeRealityMemoriesWonderfulExampleProductsExcuseOpeningUsersPackagesOur MemoriesTotalityGood ExamplesUser Experience Author:Donald A. Norman
“I don't think that I'm the smartest guy around, so I'm better off to keep my mouth shut as much as I can rather than opening my mouth and proving to people that I don't know what I'm talking about. I'm more of a leader by example than I am a preacher.” PeopleThinkingKnowsI CanGuyTalkingLeaderExampleProveMouthsOpeningPreacherBetter Off Author:Mark Martin
“Entrepreneurs don't really make mistakes, though. We just make decisions that seem right at the time, but which sometimes turn out to have been the wrong path to take. For example, we allowed a buyer to place a huge opening order and later had to take some product back. We didn't have our sell-through programs in place, so in hindsight, it would have been wiser to sell in less product at the outset. The scary thing is you are always making decisions without knowing the future.” Has BeensSometimesSeemsOrderTurnsDecisionBusinessMistakeKnowingPathExampleProductsHugeProgramSellsEntrepreneurScaryOpeningMaking MistakesWiserHindsightMaking DecisionsBuyersScary ThingsWrong PathKnowing The Future Author:Tom Szaky
“My number one goal was to always have to opportunity to have an international business of some sort, opening in Paris, opening in Tokyo, opening in Singapore for example, that was always my dream, and so it came about.” DreamOpportunityGoalNumbersExampleInternationalOpeningParisSingaporeTokyoInternational Business Author:David Myers
“The message from history is so blatantly obvious - that free trade causes mutual prosperity while protectionism causes poverty - that it seems incredible that anybody ever thinks otherwise. There is not a single example of a country opening its borders to trade and ending up poorer.” ThinkingCountrySeemsCausesPovertyExampleMessagesTradeIncrediblesProsperityObviousOpeningBordersMutualFree TradeProtectionism Author:Matt Ridley