Company Quote by James Surowiecki Download Open image “Companies often become victims of their own mythologies.” — James Surowiecki ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Company Mythology Victim
Don't buy into the corporate mythology that's been rammed down our throats for all these years. — John Cusack Copy Share Image
I am always looking for stories that will shed light on how companies define themselves - for better or for worse. When shared with… — John P. Kotter Copy Share Image
“Much of history revolves around this question: how does one convince millions of people to believe particular stories about gods, or nations, or limited… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I think people create MYTH so that they can hide originality of the society. — Punkinhead Abhishek Copy Share Image
Founders are often great storytellers because they're in the business of constantly selling a dream against all odds. — Jennifer Hyman Copy Share Image
Original visions are often wrong. Companies have to morph as they learn what customers don't want. — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
You need more people to perpetuate a myth because if the people stop the myth is known to all. — Rick Santelli Copy Share Image
Companies that get in trouble have a failure to see two realities: market trends and competitor attacks. — Michael J. Silverstein Copy Share Image
Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Downsizing itself is an inevitable part of any creatively destructive economy. — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
In the business world, bad news is usually good news - for somebody else. — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
You might think of consumption as a fairly passive activity, but buying new products and services is actually pretty risky, at least if you… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Corporations hope that the right concept will turn things around overnight. This is what you might call the crash-diet approach: starve yourself for a… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Instead of mindlessly tossing billions at or taking billions from the Net as such, investors should be spending their time making sure that it's… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
If you thought the advent of the Internet, the spread of cheap and efficient information technology, and the growing fragmentation of the consumer market… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
The financial crisis of 2008 was not caused by investment banks betting against the housing market in 2007. It was caused by the fact… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
A consumer-finance agency is a good thing, but it would do well to teach consumers a simple lesson: if you don't understand the deal… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
What corporations fear is the phenomenon now known, rather inelegantly, as 'commoditization.' What the term means is simply the conversion of the market for… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Making loans and fighting poverty are normally two of the least glamorous pursuits around, but put the two together and you have an economic… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
This welfare for wealthy companies wastes taxpayer dollars, harms the environment, and makes a mockery of the recent reductions in federal social spending programs. — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Subsequent to the original Quicken, the whole idea that we, as a consumer products company, could actually make business products, that was a whole… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The system in Germany is different, as you sign up with a company for two or three years, and you work exclusively with them;… — Tom Wlaschiha Copy Share Image
I've discovered special makeup by a company called M.A.C. You could wear it on the surface of the sun and it wouldn't move. — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
I'm also the chairman of the board of Symantec, which is the world's largest cybersecurity - software cybersecurity company. — Dan Schulman Copy Share Image
If you choose to work at a larger company over a smaller company, you are more likely to be higher paid. — Julie Sweet Copy Share Image
The undisciplined child enters into discipline by working in the company of others; not being told he is naughty.” “Discipline is, therefore, primarily a… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Many companies have long contended that stress in the home causes productivity loss in the market place.. and it does. But research now reveals… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
My first company, Pure Software, was exciting and innovative in the first few years and bureaucratic and painful in the last few before it… — Reed Hastings Copy Share Image
I won contest after contest until finally I realized, "Ok, I am the best in the world, but now what?" So I opened my… — Christian Hosoi Copy Share Image
To become a classical ballerina, you have to move to New York when you're 12 or 11 and that becomes your life. I just… — Jennifer Garner Copy Share Image
Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does. — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
