Any company designed for success in the 20th century is doomed to failure in the 21st. — David S. Rose Copy Share Image
A German merchant of the fifteenth century asked an eminent professor where he should send his son for a good business education.… — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
Gender and race got very entwined in the 19th century, as abolition broke out, and then women wanted the right to speak… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
The kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
The late 20th century sea level rise rate lacks any sign of acceleration. Satellite altimetry indicates virtually no changes in the last… — Nils-Axel Morner Copy Share Image
Lying on the floor, with the carved panels of the ceiling flickering dimly above, I found myself thinking that I had always… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the progress of civilization than you seem inclined to… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
When Theodore Roosevelt was in the White House, he confessed that if he could be right 75 percent of the time, he… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our educational system is not preparing people for the 21st Century. Failure is an essential part of entrepreneurship. If you work hard,… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
The music wasn't going to happen, and I realized I had read so little. I didn't know my way around any century.… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
The United States has experienced high rates of inflation in the past and appears to be running the same type of fiscal… — Laurence Kotlikoff Copy Share Image
Australia is this former British colony at the foot of Asia. We've been involved - we've been in lockstep with America in… — Richard Glover Copy Share Image
in the course of the last century science has become so dizzy with its successes, that it has forgotten to ask the… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Fox News has effectively become the establishment. Fox has - you know, during non-election years, really tended to out flank the Republican… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
I just don't care about popular culture. It looks to me pointless and superficial. If I had free time I'd rather read… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is staggering that in the 21st century, half of the world's population - that's three and a half billion people -… — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
Yes, you have been away a very long time.' 'Oh, centuries and centuries; so long,' she said, 'that I'm sure I'm dead… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
O thou who art able to write a book which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The commune movement is part of a reawakening of belief in the possibilities for utopia that existed in the nineteenth century and… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
For nearly two centuries, scholars and politicians have debated the future of capitalism. Its critics, most prominent among them Karl Marx, have… — Raghuram Rajan Copy Share Image
[Good taste] is a nineteenth-century concept. And good taste has never really been defined. The effort of projecting 'good taste' is so… — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Copy Share Image
In Britain, journalists often view comparisons with our society going back two, three, or seven centuries as more relevant than comparisons going… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
For nearly a century the psychoanalysts have been writing op-ed pieces about the workings of a country they've never traveled to, a… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
I'd studied 16th century science and magic. I thought it was strange that people were interested in the same kinds of things… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
Water is the sleeping giant issue of the 21st century and we all need to wake up about it. — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
The movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century.Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
Many great people over the centuries have depended on their faith- it is a sign of great strength to need Jesus in… — Bear Grylls Copy Share Image
For centuries, the question of men needing to comprehend women simply didn't arise. Men were valued according to how they measured up… — Allison Pearson Copy Share Image
Why vampires? You write centuries-long family sagas—why not write historical epics without any hint of the supernatural?" "Well, that would be boring,… — Carrie Vaughn Copy Share Image
It's strange that in an age when we pride ourselves on our independence of thought we meekly submit without further question to… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
Orthodox Judaism is a thicket of detailed injunctions, Biblical commandments elaborated during centuries of prohibited proselytizing, functioning to limit interaction with outsiders.… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
Sculpture is, in the twentieth century, a wide field of experience, with many facets of symbol and material and individual calligraphy. But… — Barbara Hepworth Copy Share Image
Genetic modification has many different areas, for example in medicine, and Britain is at the leading edge of this new technology. I… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Franklin Roosevelt ran on a balanced budget in 1932, and the greatest president, certainly, of the 20th century. So the idea that… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
I think if you went back to the eighteenth century and you asked a fifteen year old boy, 'Would you like to… — John Green Copy Share Image
In the 21st century when few of us stay in the same job all our lives, I would like to think there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The twentieth century ended with its dreams in ruins. The notion of the community as a voluntary association of enlightened citizens has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Starting from the ruins of the Second World War, we - all Europeans said, after centuries of fighting each other, we're going… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image