Ronald H. Coase (1910–2013) British economist and author
Source: 1930s-1950s, "The Nature of the Firm" (1937), p. 393
C.K. Prahlad in: Art Kleiner, " The Life’s Work of a Thought Leader http://www.strategy-business.com/article/00043?gko=bcd57," in: Strategy & Business, August 9, 2010.
Ronald H. Coase (1910–2013) British economist and author
Source: 1930s-1950s, "The Nature of the Firm" (1937), p. 393
“Strategy is about stretching limited resources to fit ambitious aspirations.”
C.K. Prahalad (1941–2010) Indian academic
C. K. Prahalad, cited in: Don Soderquist (2005), The Wal-Mart Way, p. 178
“Your energy is a valuable resource, distribute it wisely.”
Jay Samit (1961) American businessman
Source: Disrupt You! (2015), p. 42
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
2014, Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative Town Hall Speech (November 2014)
William James (1842–1910) American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist
To W. Lutoslawski (6 May 1906)
1920s, The Letters of William James (1920)
Context: Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger. Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
John H. Freeman (1944–2008) (1944-2008) US-American sociologist and organizational theorist
John H. Freeman, "Entrepreneurs as Organizational Products: Semiconductor Firms and Venture Capital Firms," Advances in the Study of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Economic Growth, 1 (1986): 33-52
Divine Ndhlukula (1960) Zimbabwean businesswoman and farmer
Source: Lioness of Africa, 23 January 2020 https://www.lionessesofafrica.com/blog/2017/4/13/quote-of-the-day
John Perry Barlow (1947–2018) American poet and essayist
As quoted in Who Controls the Internet? : Illusions of a Borderless World (2006) by Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu
Context: Imagine discovering a continent so vast that it may have no end to its dimensions. Imagine a new world with more resources than all our future greed might exhaust, more opportunities than there will ever be entrepreneurs enough to exploit, and a peculiar kind of real estate that expands with development. Imagine a place where trespassers leave no footprints, where goods can be stolen infinite number of times and yet remain in the possession of their original owners, where business you never heard of can own the history of your personal affairs...