Business Quote by Derek Thompson

“The trick is learning to frame your new ideas as tweaks of old ideas, to mix a little fluency with a little disfluency—to make…

— Derek Thompson

“Picking a few hits requires a tolerance for many bad ideas, mediocre ideas, and even good ideas cursed with bad timing. Above all, it…

— Derek Thompson

“Cultural products will spread faster and wider when everybody can see what everybody else is doing. It suggests that the future of many hit-making…

— Derek Thompson

“Imitating recent successes is a game that everybody knows how to play. But seeing the next big thing before anybody else sees it is…

— Derek Thompson

“The most important element in a global cascade isn’t magically viral elements or mystical influencers. Rather it is about finding a group of people…

— Derek Thompson

“His lullaby was an instant success not because it was incomparably original, but because it offered a familiar melody in an original setting.”

— Derek Thompson

“Some consumers buy products not because they are ‘better” in any way, but simply because they are popular. What they’re buying is not just…

— Derek Thompson

“It is the simplest phrase you can imagine,” Favreau said, “three monosyllabic words that people say to each other every day.” But the speech…

— Derek Thompson

“The line from psychologists is, if you’ve seen it before, it hasn’t killed you yet.”

— Derek Thompson

“People have all day to talk about what makes them ordinary. It turns out that they want to share what makes them weird.”

— Derek Thompson

“The mark of a good book is that you're happy to come home to it. The mark of a great book is that you…

— Derek Thompson

“In the psychology of aesthetics, there is a name for the moment between the anxiety of confronting something new and the satisfying click of…

— Derek Thompson