“It is important to recognize that behind the razzmatazz of consumerism, we all remain dependent on basic natural resources - land, air, water and biodiversity - for every product and service. There can be no free lunch on the environment.” ImportantWaterNaturalBehindsEnvironmentAirLandProductsResourcesDependentLunchConsumerismNatural ResourcesOverconsumptionBiodiversityFree Lunch Author:Klaus Topfer
“The inhabitant of London could order by telephone, sipping his morning tea in bed, the various products of the whole earth -- he could at the same time and by the same means adventure his wealth in the natural resources and new enterprise of any quarter of the world -- he could secure forthwith, if he wished, cheap and comfortable means of transit to any country or climate without passport or other formality.” IfsWorldMeanCountryWholeEarthOrderPeaceNaturalWealthMorningAdventureProductsBedComfortableResourcesEconomicsClimateVariousLondonSecureTeaEnterpriseQuartersTelephonesNatural ResourcesPassportsFormalitySipping Author:John Maynard Keynes
“It is also very important to observe, that menial servants are absolutely necessary to make the resources of the higher and middle classes of society efficient in the demand for material products.” ImportantClassMiddleMaterialsProductsHigherDemandResourcesServantMiddle ClassEfficientClasses Of Society Author:Thomas Malthus
“Only the general manager can mold the resources, processes, and values that affect innovation , into a coherent capability to develop and launch superior new products and services repeatedly.” ValuesProcessProductsResourcesInnovationSuperiorsManagersCapabilityMoldNew ProductsGeneral Manager Book:Innovation and the General Manager Source: Innovation and the General Manager
“But life cannot maintain itself alone. The Creator of life has entrusted us with the responsibility of preserving, developing, and perfecting it. In order that we may accomplish this, He has provided us with a collection of marvelous faculties. And He has put us in the midst of a variety of natural resources. By the application of our faculties to these natural resources we convert them into products, and use them. The process is necessary in order that life may run its appointed course.” MayUseRunningOrderCoursesPoliticsProcessNaturalResponsibilityEconomyProductsResourcesCreatorAccomplishVarietyDevelopingLiberalismCollectionsMidstFacultyApplicationMarvelousNatural Resources Book:The Law Source: The Law
“The role of business is to provide products and services that make peoples lives better - while using fewer resources - and to act lawfully and with integrity.” RolesProductsIntegrityResourcesFewer Author:Charles Koch
“80% of all products and services that will be on the market in five years do not exist today. So therefore, always be innovative, always be creative, always think, 'What new products or services could I create, could I represent, could I joint venture?" Sometimes you can find someone else that has a fabulous product or service that you can use your existing business or resources to sell and you can double your income or sales in your business by selling somebody else's product to the same customers that are buying yours.” ThinkingYearsSometimesUseTodayCreativeFiveProductsResourcesSellsCustomersIncomeSellingFive YearsBuyingVentureBe CreativeFabulousInnovativeJointsNew ProductsJoint Ventures Author:Brian Tracy
“Rearing a family is probably the most difficult job in the world. It resembles two business firms merging their respective resources to make a single product. All the potential headaches of that operation are present when an adult male and an adult female join to steer a child from infancy to adulthood.” WorldChildrenTwoJobsDifficultProductsAdultsResourcesFemaleMalesFirmOperationsAdulthoodSteersInfancyHeadacheMerging Book:The new peoplemaking Source: The new peoplemaking
“He who has got more than that is required to fulfill his basic need spends his resources, more often than not, on the people and the products that he does not actually need.” PeopleNeedsDoeProductsResourcesBasic Needs Author:Anuj
“Good engineering is characterized by gradual, stepwise refinement of products that yields increased performance under given constraints and with given resources.” GivenProductsResourcesPerformancesProgrammingYieldSoftwareEngineeringConstraintsRefinementSoftware Engineering Author:Niklaus Wirth
“People, materials, facilities, money, and time are the resources available to us for conducting our business. By applying our skills, we turn these resources into useful products and services. If we do a good job, customers pay us more for our products than the sum of our costs in producing and distributing them. This difference, our profit, represents the value we add to the resources we utilize.” PeopleIfsJobsValuesTurnsDifferencesPayMaterialsProductsCostSkillsResourcesAddProfitAvailableCustomersGood JobFacilityConducting Author:David Packard
“[According to the rigid dogma] we have to believe the United States would have so-called liberated Iraq even if its main products were lettuce and pickles and the main energy resource of the world were in central Africa.” IfsWorldBelieveStatesEnergyUnitedUnited StatesProductsResourcesIraqDogmaLiberatedPicklesLettuce Author:Noam Chomsky
“You need to save some mental, physical, and emotional resources for enhancing your product after you ship. A revolution is a triathlon, not a hundred-yard dash-it requires long distance stamina and multiple skills such as creating, churning, and evangelizing.” NeedsLongEmotionalProductsRevolutionSkillsCreatingHundredResourcesDistanceShipsMultipleYardsLong DistanceStaminaChurningTriathlon Author:Guy Kawasaki
“There are now businesses and entire industries that exist solely as a result of federal patronage. Profiting from government instead of earning profits in the economy, such businesses can continue to succeed even if they are squandering resources and making products that people wouldn't ordinarily buy.” PeopleIfsGovernmentResultsEconomyProductsIndustrySucceedResourcesProfitEarningPatronageSquandering Author:Charles Koch
“The role of business is to provide products and services that make people's live better - while using fewer resources - and to act lawfully and with integrity. Businesses that do this through voluntary exchanges not only benefit through increased profits, they bring better and more competitively priced goods and services to market. This creates a win-win situation customers and companies alike.” PeopleWinningCompanySituationRolesProductsIntegrityBenefitsResourcesProfitCustomersGoodsFewerWin WinGoods And ServicesWin Win Situation Author:Charles Koch
“So to the best we can, what we do is focus on creating value for others, and how do we do that? We do it by trying to produce products and services that our customers will value more than their alternatives, and not just their alternatives today, but what the alternatives will be in the future. We try to more efficiently use resources than our competitors, and constantly improve in that, and we try to do the best job we can in creating a safe environment, and environmental excellence, and constantly improve at that.” TryingUseTodayJobsValuesEnvironmentFocusProduceProductsSafeCreatingResourcesExcellenceEnvironmentalCustomersAlternativesCompetitorsDo The BestBest JobSafe EnvironmentCreating Value Author:Charles Koch
“I think a much better use of time and resources is to really focus on your existing users or customers and figure out what changes can you make in the Web site, the service, the product, whatever, to get them to come back more often to generate that repeat business and once you kind of figure out that formula, then when you get new customers the whole thing just kind of grows exponentially.” ThinkingKindWholeUseGrowsFocusFiguresProductsResourcesCustomersRepeatsFormulasUsersSiteUse Of Time Author:Tony Hsieh
“You need judgment, you need to utilize conventional resource-allocation analysis, you have to work backward from estimations of the market to the current investments and you have to do some benchmarking of your product and its potential against your competition.” NeedsProductsJudgmentResourcesCompetitionInvestmentCurrentsAnalysisConventionalEstimationAllocation Author:John Kao
“Imagine that Queen Elizabeth I, in her time, had the opportunity to give out a monopoly for playing cards within the kingdom. She knew she was going to give it to one of her courtiers. These courtiers would then all try to curry her favour. Meanwhile, they would not contribute anything to the product of the kingdom, in fact, they were wasting resources trying to secure a single prize. That, more or less, is rent seeking.” GivingTryingFactsOpportunityImagineProductsResourcesSeekingKingdomsCardsSecureQueensPrizeImagine ThatFavourMonopolyCurryPlaying CardsQueen ElizabethCourtiers Author:James M. Buchanan