- “Only 20 percent of the limiting factors are external to you or to your organization. Only 20 percent are on the outside in the form of competition, markets, governments, or other organizations.” Eat That Frog, Brian Tracy, Page 72
- “Successful salespeople set aside a specific time period each day to phone prospects.” Eat That Frog, Brian Tracy, Page 101
- “In his book Brain Longevity, Dr. Dharma Sing Khalsa says the average American sees sixteen thousand advertisements, logos and labels in a day.”Beating the Midas Curse, by Perry L. Cochell and Rodney C. Zeeb, Page 30
- “I studied the work of Teresa Amabile of the Harvard Business School. She is one of the country’s foremost experts on business innovation and she said, “All innovation begins with creative ideas.” Okay, I said to myself, that makes sense, but how do you define a creative idea? What is it? Over time I came up with this simple explanation: A creative idea is one that’s new and useful. A new idea that isn’t useful, I reasoned, isn’t worth much in the business world. I could design a car with square wheels, it would be new and different, but it wouldn’t be of much use. Later I’d come to realize that this definition transcended business, for it also applied to science, entertainment, and even the arts.” Borrowing Brilliance: The Six Steps to Business Innovation by Building on the Ideas of Others (David Kord Murray) Page 13
- “Albert Einstein I read his thoughts: “The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution.”” Borrowing Brilliance: The Six Steps to Business Innovation by Building on the Ideas of Others (David Kord Murray) Page 34
- “Although you’re wired to solve problems, you’re not wired to accurately define them. In the fight for survival, which determined your inherent characteristics, the ability to make a quick decision was more important than the ability to make an accurate one. You’re wired for speed and not precision. Imagine your ancient ancestor observing the rustling of the grass approaching him on the prehistoric savannah. This was either a saber-toothed tiger or the wind blowing the tall grass. The ancestor who made a quick decision to run was the one who survived, passing this trait to you; the one who stayed to determine the source of the rustling grass was more apt to be eaten by the tiger. His genes, and aptitude for problem analysis, were taken out of the gene pool long before modern times. Speed of thought is in your genetic makeup. It served your ancestors well with life threatening problems, but now causes you to misdiagnose the not-so-life-threatening ones you now face.” Borrowing Brilliance: The Six Steps to Business Innovation by Building on the Ideas of Others (David Kord Murray) Page 35
- “Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that is counted counts” Anonymous