“A company surrenders today's businesses when it gets smaller faster than it gets better. A company surrenders tomorrow's businesses when it gets better without getting different.”

— Gary Hamel

Source: Competing for the Future, 1996, p. 17

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American management expert 1954

Shabdon Ka Jahan

“In all companies there are more fools than wise men, and the greater part always gets the better of the wiser.”

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En toutes compagnies il y a plus de folz que de sages, et la plus grande partie surmonte tousjours la meilleure.
Chapter 10 http://books.google.com/books?id=wfRKAQAAIAAJ&q=%22En+toutes+compagnies+il+y+a+plus+de+folz+que+de+sages+et+la+plus+grande+partie+surmonte+tousjours+la+meilleure%22&pg=PA285#v=onepage.
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“Get busy living or get busy dying.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

“With joint-stock corporations, investors can place bets on the success of many different companies, without having to play a central management role in any one of them. This allows investors to diversify their financial holdings. It also allows them to capture profits on their investments, without having to get involved in the dirty, troublesome business of actually running a company.”

Jim Stanford (1961) Canadian economist

Part 2, Chapter 7, Companies, Owners, and Profit, p. 91
Economics For Everyone (2008)

“Life is getting better, but that won’t stop a war if politicians and business people decide it’s to their advantage to have one.”

Octavia E. Butler book Parable of the Talents

Source: Parable of the Talents (1998), Chapter 5 (p. 90)

“It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

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Variant: Either get busy living or get busy dying
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“BlackBerry isn't getting out of the hardware business. It stands alone as the only smartphone company exclusively focused on business, security and traditional communication. Until someone else steps up to meet this need, there continues to be a market for its hardware …”

Rob Enderle (1954) American financial analyst

BlackBerry Misinformation and the Smartphone Security Crisis http://itbusinessedge.com/blogs/unfiltered-opinion/blackberry-misinformation-and-the-smartphone-security-crisis.html in IT Business Edge (8 July 2016)

“Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit. A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part of their liberty— their power and privilege— to State, Masses, Mankind, Planet Earth, or whatever. This state, those masses, that mankind, and the planet will then be run by… politicians.”

P. J. O'Rourke (1947) American journalist

All the Trouble in the World (1994)

“School was designed to get you to fall in line and get a job in someone else’s company.”

Jay Samit (1961) American businessman

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“One trouble is that when Government gets into a business it tends to make it uneconomic for anyone else.”

John James Cowperthwaite (1915–2006) British colonial administrator

February 27, 1963, page 47.
Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council

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