I have my own theory about why decline happens at…

I have my own theory about why decline happens at companies like IBM or Microsoft. The company does a great job, innovates and becomes…

— Walter Isaacson

“I have my own theory about why decline happens at companies like IBM or Microsoft. The company does a great job, innovates and becomes…

— Walter Isaacson

It's like when IBM drove a lot of innovation out of the computer industry before the microprocessor came along. Eventually, Microsoft will crumble because…

— Steve Jobs

You can't just become complacent or lazy, or then the decline happens.

— Jinder Mahal

The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little over four…

— Bill Gates

Like IBM, the company [Microsoft] seems to have been spooked by the federal antitrust action against it and became increasingly sclerotic and less inventive.

— Stephen Manes

Deflation means a slowdown of income growth. Markets shrink, new capital investment and employment also taper off, so wages decline. That is what's happening…

— Michael Hudson

To my way of thinking, the American family started to decline when parents began to communicate with their children.

— Erma Bombeck

I think the rise of quantitative econometrics and a highly mathematical approach to risk management was the obverse of a decline in interest in…

— Niall Ferguson

“There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.”

— Adam Smith

In my humble opinion, the PC as we have known it is in a continuous decline and being relegated to a utility device for…

— Hector Ruiz

The challenge is either to build an economy that is sustainable or to stay with our unsustainable economy until it declines. It is not…

— Lester R. Brown

Low levels of vitamin D in the population as a whole suggest that most people need to take a vitamin D supplement. This may…

— Andrew Weil

When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins.

— Theodore Martin

Among the many factors that make a return to halcyon days of the first decades of the postwar era virtually impossible is the decline…

— Robert Gilpin