Business @ The Speed of Thought (1999) http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/speedofthought/default.asp
1990s
“Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.”
“If you want to do something really interesting and revolutionary, learn to ignore your customers.”
Source: Funky Business Forever, 2007, p. 184
Context: Gallery visitors did not tell Picasso to invent cubism. Jazz fanatics did not suggest that should work with hip-hoppers. Moviegoers did not propose to Lars von Trier, the Danish film director, that he make Breaking the Waves. And customers sure as hell did not come up with the idea for CDNow or Amazon. com. If you want to do something really interesting and revolutionary, learn to ignore your customers.
“Don't find customers for your products, find products for your customers.”
“Money is the source of the greatest vice, & that Nation which is most rich, is most wicked.”
The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney, vol. 1, p. 48, journal entry, November 17, 1768.
Letters
Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
As quoted in Hope Notes : 52 Meditations to Nudge Your World (2004) by Wayne Willis, p. 11.
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
