“Some people steal from others, or defraud them, or enslave them, seizing their product and preventing them from living as they choose, or forcibly exclude others from competing in exchanges. None of these are permissible modes of transition from one situation to another.” PeopleSituationProductsStealingTransitionCompetingPreventingSeizing Book:Anarchy, state, and utopia Source: Anarchy, state, and utopia
“There are a lot of products still to be discovered in the world and experimentation, for example with seafood and fish. There are thousands of products that we're not eating right now that maybe will be cultivated in a good agriculture situation, a sustainable, ecological way. Maybe there will be textures or flavors we hadn't even thought of. In the Amazon there are 400 fruits that are not cultivated right now. They're just incredible fruits. Textures, tastes that we don't know right now.” KnowsWorldWayStillsSituationExampleFoodProductsTasteRight NowEatingFruitIncrediblesFishesAgricultureFlavorTextureEcologicalAmazonExperimentationSeafoodEating Right Author:Ferran Adria
“The civil rights situation is like a pregnancy. It will get worse, I believe, before it gets better. What the usual pregnancy comes to is a decent baby. That is what we all hope will be the end product of this stress. It is customary, at the end of a pregnancy, to have for your pains a decent baby.” BelieveEndsPainI BelieveSituationRightsProductsBabyRacismStressCivil RightsGet BetterDecentPregnancyUsualIt Gets Better Book:Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks Source: Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks
“I think anybody, not just children, is a product of a great environment. If you put them in a better environment from a sad situation, nine times out of 10, they'll go in the right direction.” IfsThinkingChildrenSituationEnvironmentProductsNineRight Direction Author:Usher
“Sellers in general maintain the quality of their products and services for fear of losing customers otherwise. But, when price controls create a situation where the amount demanded is greater than the amount supplied - a shortage - fear of losing customers is no longer as strong an incentive. For example, landlords typically reduce painting and repairs when there is rent control, because there is no need to fear vacancies when there are more tenants looking for apartments than there are apartments available.” NeedsStrongQualitySituationGreaterExamplePaintingProductsAmountLosingAvailableCustomersApartmentIncentivesShortageSellersLandlordTenantsVacancyRent Control Author:Thomas Sowell
“We grow by letting the customer tell us. So when the customer tells us that they're frustrated, that they just got their catalogue and we're already out of a product they wanted, then it tells me that we're not making enough. We let the customer tell us instead of creating an artificial demand for our products. Any time you're making products that people don't need, you're at the mercy of the economy, you're at the mercy of whatever is going on. So we tried to avoid that situation.” PeopleNeedsEnoughWantedGrowsBusinessSituationEconomyProductsDemandCreatingMercyCustomersArtificialFrustratedNeed YouCataloguesDon't Need You Author:Yvon Chouinard
“I can tell when I've met a bad journalist when they say, "I've met Madonna," or "I know Marilyn Manson." Because I haven't met anyone I've ever interviewed. I've sat down in the position of an interviewer, and they've sat down in the position of an artist trying to promote a product. We have no relationship. I'm able to ask them questions I'd never be allowed to ask them if we were casual friends. It's a completely constructed kind of situation.” IfsKnowsTryingKindI CanAbleArtistAsksSituationHavensPositionProductsMetsJournalistSatCasualMansonInterviewers Author:Chuck Klosterman
“What history teaches us is that man does not change arbitrarily; he does not transform himself at will on hearing the voices of inspired prophets. The reason is that all change, in colliding with the inherited institutions of the past, is inevitably hard and laborious; consequently it only takes place in response to the demands of necessity. For change to be brought about it is not enough that it should be seen as desirable; it must be the product of changes within the whole network of diverse casual relationships which then determine the situation of man.” MenShouldDoeHardReasonEnoughWholePastVoiceSituationTeachProductsDemandInstitutionsResponseInspiredDetermineHearingProphetDiverseDesirableCasualCasual Relationships Author:Emile Durkheim
“Only in situations where competition is illegal will competition not act naturally to bring the best product at the lowest price to the consumer.” SituationProductsCompetitionConsumersIllegalLowest Author:John Pugsley
“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
“I am a product... I'm a comedian. I'm not curing cancer. In the end, I tell jokes. I make people laugh. I make sense out of ridiculous situations, but in the end, it's all about laughter. It's all about your cheek hurting, your stomach hurting.” PeopleEndsHurtSituationLaughingProductsLaughterJokesCancerRidiculousMake SenseComedianStomachCheeksMaking People Laugh Author:Carlos Mencia
“Management has to provide the coordinating mechanism between what the supplier provides and what the user needs in not-good-enough situations where product architecture is consequently interdependent. Management always beats markets when there is not sufficient information.” NeedsEnoughSituationInformationProductsBeatsManagementArchitectureSufficientGood EnoughMechanismUsersNot Good EnoughSuppliersCoordinating Author:Clayton Christensen
“It is when the product is not good enough that proprietary integration gives you a competitive edge. You cannot outsource and be competitively successful in this situation. But at the other end, where standard components assembled in standard ways can yield acceptable performance, you must outsource.” WayGivingEndsEnoughSituationSuccessfulProductsStandardsPerformancesEdgesYieldGood EnoughAcceptableIntegrationComponentsNot Good Enough Author:Clayton Christensen
“Among mammals, a virgin birth (parthenogenesis) can only produce female offspring, for chromosomal reasons. Messiahs are mammals. Therefore, Jesus was... On the other hand, among turkeys, the chromosomal situation is such that all products of virgin birth are males. So if Jesus was a male, he might also have been.” IfsHas BeensReasonHandsMightJesusSituationAtheismProduceProductsBirthFemaleMalesVirginsTurkeysOffspringMessiahMammalsVirgin Birth Author:Frank Zindler
“When a novelist manages to describe or evoke something you thought or felt, without realizing that other people also found themselves in the same situation and had the same feelings, it creates that same solidarity. Maybe it's better to think of humor not as a tool to express the solidarity, but a kind of by-product. Maybe the realization "I'm not on my own on this one" is always, or often, funny.” PeopleThinkingKindFeelingsFoundFeltRealizingMy OwnSituationProductsToolsManageRealizationNovelistsSolidarityEvoke Author:Elif Batuman