"People don't want quarter-inch drills. They want quarter-inch……" — Theodore Levitt
"People don't want quarter-inch drills. They want quarter-inch holes."
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25 Quotes by Theodore Levitt
Theodore Levitt has 25 quotes on this site.
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Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital…
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Ideas can be willed, and the imagination is their engine.
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Nothing drives progress like the imagination. The idea precedes the deed. The only exceptions are accidents and natural selection.
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The oil industry is a stunning example of how science, technology, and mass production can divert an entire group of…
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Kodak sells film, but they don't advertise film; they advertise memories.
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Organizations, by their very nature are designed to promote order and routine. They are inhospitable environments for innovation.
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Ideas are useless unless used. The proof of their value is in their implementation. Until then, they are in limbo.
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A consistently highly creative person is generally irresponsible.
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Ideas are useless unless used.
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Organizations exist to enable ordinary people to do extraordinary things.
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The true purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer, not to make you money.
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The purpose of a business is to get and keep a customer. Without customers, no amount of engineering wizardry, clever…
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More Deep Thought Quotes
This quote is filed under Deep Thought Quotes,
one of 444 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
— Aristotle
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Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
— Aristotle
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What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
— Aristotle
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To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.
— Leonard Bernstein
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Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
— James Bovard
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
— Mel Brooks
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When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful…
— Leo Burnett
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No pressure, no diamonds.
— Thomas Carlyle
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In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I'm a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed.
— Bruce Lee
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I never could do anything with figures, never had any talent for mathematics, never accomplished anything in my efforts at…
— Mark Twain
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The chief distinction in the intellectual powers of the two sexes is shown by mans attaining to a higher eminence,…
— Charles Darwin
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