&791/ Business Quotes: Efficiency and Effectiveness, Innovation, and Change

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Featured on SlideShare's homepage this week! An additional 4 quotes from Peter Drucker, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Clay Shirky, and Paul Klee. 25 business quotes complete with 25 photographylizations.

"Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast."
- Peter Drucker

24. "One has to do something new in order to see something new." Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

23. "Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution." Clay Shirky

22. "A line is a dot that went for a walk." Paul Klee

21. "The term 'social networking' makes little sense if we leave out the objects that mediate the ties between people. [...] The fallacy is to think that social networks are just made up of people." Jyri Engeström

20. "Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It's about saying NO to all but the most crucial features." Steve Jobs

19. "The long silence - the interruption of the human conversation -- is coming to an end. On the Internet, markets are getting more connected and more powerfully vocal every day." The Cluetrain Manifesto

18. "Rather be dead than cool." Kurt Cobain

17. "These are issues that we are going to have to address, because they are significant." Ben Bernanke

16. "One finds limits by pushing them." Herbert Simon

15. "If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin." Ivan Turgenev

14. "I spent 90% of my money on women and drink. The rest I wasted" George Best

13. "[...] a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it." Herbert Simon

12. "Eighty percent of success is showing up." Woody Allen

11. "Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other." Kevin Kelly

10. "A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five." Groucho Marx

9. "I apologize for writing you a long letter but I didn't have time to write you a short one." Blaise Pascal

8. "Fail early to succeed sooner." Matt Hunter, Product Development, IDEO

7. "Implement solutions, not features." John Geleynse, Software Technology Evangelism, Apple

6. "Don't open a shop unless you like to smile." Chinese Proverb

5. "The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible." David Ogilvy

4. "Before I speak, I have something important to say." Groucho Marx

3. "Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future." Niels Bohr

2. "If I'd asked my customers what they wanted, they'd have said a faster horse." Henry Ford

1. "Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration." Jeffrey Zeldman

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