Quote by Walter Isaacson Download Open image ““I have my own theory about why decline happens at companies like IBM or Microsoft.”” — Walter Isaacson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I have my own theory about why decline happens at companies like IBM or Microsoft. The company does a great job, innovates and becomes… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I have my own theory about why decline happens at companies like IBM or Microsoft. The company does a great job, innovates and becomes a monopoly or close to it in some field, and then the quality of the product becomes less important. The company starts valuing the great salesmen, because they’re the ones who can move the needle on… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share
“great companies fail not because they want to avoid disruptive change but because they are reluctant to embrace promising new markets that might undermine… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
You cannot have companies where many of the largest ones lose money indefinitely without someone finally waving the white flag, and IBM is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Companies are suffering. They face recession and dowsizing. They make a loss profit , losing their clients and best skilled employees because of someone… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
“Companies that cannot successfully answer what they do fail to then understand how they can continue to do it in the face of change.” — David Amerland Copy Share Image
“in any company’s greatest achievements one might, with the clarity of hindsight, locate the beginnings of its own demise.” — Jon Gertner Copy Share Image
“Once Microsoft lost its grip on developers, it became only a matter of time before it lost its monopoly on operating systems.” — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
“It’s bad for your business to refuse change when the technology is changing, but it’s worse for your business to fight the technology.” — Pooja Agnihotri Copy Share Image
“Running the company for the shareholders often reduces its long-term growth potential.” — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
In my humble opinion, the PC as we have known it is in a continuous decline and being relegated to a utility device for… — Hector Ruiz Copy Share Image
“he never finished any of the works he began because, so sublime was his idea of art, he saw faults even in the things… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
He had the attitude that he could do anything, and therefore so can you. He put his life in my hands. So that made… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
But the point is to get a whole new generation of people and people in general more re-engaged in news, and this has happened… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Jobs's intensity was also evident in his ability to focus. He would set priorities, aim his laser attention on them, and filter out distractions.… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Atop the brochure McKenna put a maxim, often attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, that would become the defining precept of Jobs’s design philosophy: “Simplicity… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“You have to remain critically vigilant.” Question every premise, challenge conventional wisdom, and never accept the truth of something merely because everyone else views… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“in 1996, bought NeXT, bringing Jobs back. BILL ATKINSON. Early Apple employee, developed graphics for the Macintosh. CHRISANN BRENNAN. Jobs’s girlfriend at Homestead High,… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“The last time there was this much excitement about a tablet, it had some commandments written on it.” — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“There was a key lesson for innovation: Understand which industries are symbiotic so that you can capitalize on how they will spur each other… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
