In The Difference Between Big Companies and Small Companies, I briefly quoted the Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman, who was talking about an incident in which he was helping the California school board choose a set of science textbooks. Feynman had given a poor review to a book that others […]
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I had some horses that I would rather have sold than my pretty pair of fire horses. I knew that I would sell them and sell them pretty quick, and I knew that I wouldn’t get any more like them.This old man says, “What will you take for those horses?””I […]
There is never a good sale for Neiman-Marcus unless it’s a good buy for the customer. –Herbert Marcus, cofounder of Neiman Marcus, speaking to his son in 1926, quoted by Stanley Marcus in Minding the Store (1974), quoted in Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations. See also Selling is Serving.
Work expands to fill the time available for its completion. — C. Northcote Parkinson, in Economist, 19 Nov 1955, quoted in Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations.
In this business, you can never wash the dinner dishes and say they are done. You have to keep doing them constantly. — Mary Wells Lawrence, advertising executive, on the need for fresh approaches. Time 3 Oct 66, quoted in Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations
If the person is over 40 years old, I tell him he should do something because it is first good for Japan, good for the company, good for his family and finally good for him. If the person is under 40, I tell him he should do it because first […]