“If you're lucky, and a building succeeds, the real product has many more dimensions than you can ever imagine. You have the sun, the light, the rain, the birds, the feel.” IfsFeelsRealLightSunImagineBuildingProductsLuckySucceedBirdRainDimensions Author:Peter Zumthor
“Knapsack of the Metaphysicians.- Those who boast so mightily of the scientificality of their metaphysics should receive no answer; it is enough to pluck at the bundle which, with a certain degree of embarrassment, they keep concealed behind their back; if one succeeds in opening it, the products of that scientificality come to light, attended by their blushes: a dear little Lord God, a nice little immortality, perhaps a certain quantity of spiritualism, and in any event a whole tangled heap of 'wretched poor sinner' and Pharisee arrogance.” IfsShouldLittlesEnoughPhilosophyWholeLightCertainAnswersPoorBehindsLordNiceEventsProductsSucceedDegreesDearOpeningImmortalityArroganceSinnerQuantityMetaphysicsBoastWretchedEmbarrassmentConcealedTangledPluckBundlesSpiritualismLord GodPharisees Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“I like to be aware of a book as a piece of writing, and aware of its structure as a product of mind, and yet I want to be able to see the represented world through it. I admire artists who succeed in dividing my attention more or less evenly between the world of their books and the art of their books . . . so that a reader may study the work with pleasure as well as the world that it describes.” WorldWantWritingMindWellsMayArtBookAbleArtistPleasureAttentionStudyPiecesProductsReaderSucceedStructureAdmireDividing Author:Annie Dillard
“To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment.” EnvironmentProductsSucceedLosingTechniqueHungrySuperiorsSelling Author:Ben Horowitz
“The only big companies that succeed will be those that obsolete their own products before somebody else does.” DoeBigsCompanyProductsSucceedObsoleteBig Companies Author:Bill Gates
“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
“I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding.” ThinkingEndsProductsSucceedJournalismCredibility Author:Walter Isaacson
“The majority of photographers still seek artistic effects, imitating other mediums of graphic expression. The result is a hybrid product that does not succeed in giving their work the most valuable characteristic it should have, - photographic quality.” GivingShouldDoeStillsResultsQualityEffectsExpressionProductsSucceedShould HaveMajorityPhotographerValuableMediumsArtisticCharacteristicsGraphicHybridImitatingImitating Others Book:Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti Source: Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti
“One of the most important discoveries I made in those early years was that to succeed at natural farming, you have to get rid of your expectations. Such "products" of the mind are often incorrect or unrealistic . . . and can lead you to think you've made a mistake if they're not met.” IfsThinkingYearsMindMadeImportantNaturalMistakeProductsMetsSucceedExpectationsDiscoveryFarmingMade A Mistake Author:Masanobu Fukuoka
“People want to be inspired. They want to aspire to something. ... You can have the best product, the best service, the best argument in a debate. But without the effective words you still lose. In the end you need good principles and good language if you are to succeed.” PeopleIfsWantNeedsStillsEndsLanguageLosesPrinciplesProductsSucceedArgumentInspiredDebateAspireBe InspiredBest Service Author:Frank Luntz
“Best way to succeed is to do things for the customer, not to the competition. Very few people buy a product in order to help you hurt the competition. To think otherwise is lunacy.” PeopleThinkingWayHelpingOrderHurtProductsSucceedCompetitionCustomersBest WayLunacy Author:Guy Kawasaki
“It's far too much to say that effective hoping is the only - or even the biggest - part of what it takes to succeed. If 14% of business productivity can be attributed to hope, that means 86% is dependent on raw talent, fickle business cycles, the quality of the product you're selling, and often pure, dumb luck.” IfsMeanQualityToo MuchTalentProductsPureSucceedLuckProductivitySellingDumbDependentCyclesFickleDumb LuckRaw Talent Author:Jeffrey Kluger