“A company cannot be a learning company without also being a teaching company.”

— Kevin Kelly

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)

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American author and editor 1952

David P. Norton (1941) American business theorist, business executive and management consultant

David P. Norton (1992), cited in: ASQC ... Annual Quality Congress Proceedings, 1994, p. 343

“Companies earn their profits by exploiting their environment. Mining and oil companies exploit the physical environment; social media companies exploit the social environment. This is particularly nefarious because social media companies influence how people think and behave without them even being aware of it.”

George Soros (1930) Hungarian-American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist

Remarks delivered at the World Economic Forum https://www.georgesoros.com/2018/01/25/remarks-delivered-at-the-world-economic-forum/ (25 January 2018)

“Crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.”

Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) English historian and Member of Parliament

Referring to London.
Memoirs (1796)

“Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture without being snubbed.”

J.M.W. Turner (1775–1851) British Romantic landscape painter, water-colourist, and printmaker

Quote c. 1840; as cited by by Charles Rob Leslie Vol. 1, (1860), p. 208; as quoted in The Life of J. M. W. Turner - Founded on Letters and Papers Furnished by His Friends and Fellow Academicians, Walter Thornbury; Cambridge University Press, 2013, p. 244
Turner's remark in the 1840's, when the new built Houses of Parliament in London were to be decorated with pictures
1821 - 1851

“My reference points were US companies. We were hugely influenced by large US chemical companies, especially DuPont. It was a very open company and we could take advantage of their learnings. The US is also a very open society. I could to go the US Association of Chemical Engineers and get the standards, data, etc.”

Mukesh Ambani (1957) Indian business magnate

Mukesh Ambani on how Reliance was built

“Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.”

Andrew S. Grove (1936–2016) Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer, and author

Andy Grove, December 1994; cited in: Albert Yu (1998) Creating the digital future. p. 93 : After the Pentium Processor flaw in December 1994
1980s - 1990s