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Accepting trial and error means accepting error. It means taking problems in our stride when a decision doesn't work out, whether through…
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Success Comes Through Rapidly Fixing our Mistakes Rather than Getting Things Right the First Time
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We should not try to design a better world. We should make better feedback loops.
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I see the God complex around me all the time in my fellow economists. I see it in our business leaders. I…
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Ten percent of American businesses disappear every year. ... It's far higher than the failure rate of, say, Americans. Ten percent of…
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You show me a successful complex system, and I will show you a system that has evolved through trial and error.
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There's nothing wrong with a plan, but remember Von Moltke's famous dictum that no plan survives first contact with the enemy. The…
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If the whole process of learning from failure means discarding stuff that's not working, but in fact, our natural reaction is to…
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Economists have allowed themselves to walk into a trap where we say we can forecast, but no serious economist thinks we can.…
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Failure is inevitable; it happens all the time in a complex economy.
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Pluralism matters because life is not worth living without new experiences - new people, new places, new challenges. But discipline matters too;…
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The more grotesque your boss's pay and the less he has do to earn it, the bigger the motivation for you to…
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Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But…
— Gerard Arpey
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We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.
— Samuel Adams
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I'm not going to dinner with somebody who eats like a bird, nor do I want to eat like a bird. But…
— Sophia Bush
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The lifeblood of our business is that R&D spend. There's nothing that flows through a pipe or down a wire or anything…
— Steve Ballmer
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Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships.
— Michael Dell
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We profoundly regret the suffering this has caused our fans, our business partners and the thousands of people who depend on our…
— Gary Bettman
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Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame…
— Charles Barkley
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We intend to conduct our business in a way that not only meets but exceeds the expectations of our customers, business partners,…
— Akira Mori
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We want passion for our business.. workers who can interpret and execute our mission, who want to build a career, not just…
— Howard Schultz
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Our business is to be happy.
— Dalai Lama
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Remember the Three Princes of Serendip who went out looking for treasure? They didn't find what they were looking for, but they…
— George W. Bush
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Companies have to nurture [creativity and motivation]-and have to do it by building a compassionate yet performance-driven corporate culture. In the knowledge…
— Gay Mitchell
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