epigraph, p. vi
A Sad Heart at the Supermarket: Essays & Fables (1962)
“One time, when I was really little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and became hard like a drum, it hurt a lot. Mother said that if I'd just waited for the apples to ripen, I wouldn't have become sick. So now, whenever I really want something, I try to remember what she said about the apples.”
The Kite Runner (2003)
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He did not attack my argument. He didn’t agree with it, either. He just smiled and said, "I am going to wait for the next big thing."
Source: Good Strategy Bad Strategy, 2011, p. 14; Similar story in Rumelt (2007)

About strategy starts with identifying changes, and companies taking position (2)
"McKinsey Quarterly interview," 2007

“They will hang Jeff Davis to a sour apple tree!”
"John Brown's Body" http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/scsmhtml/scsmhome.html (1861)

George Bernard Shaw never said these words, but Charles F. Brannan did. http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/12/13/swap-ideas/
Misattributed
“Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.”
Source: Wall and Piece (2005)
Just For Laughs gala https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-zFQ9fOTSU&feature=youtu.be&t=3m15s, Hedberg's final Just For Laughs performance (2004)

As quoted in Fortune (26 August 1991)
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