Don Tapscott quote: "There's a whole generation of young people who are faced with the so-called 'jobless recovery.' Necessity is the mother of invention. They are out there, all around the world, creating new companies."

If you work for and eventually lead a company, understand that companies have multiple stakeholders ...
DON TAPSCOTT

In an age where everything and everyone is linked through networks of glass and air, no one - no bus...
DON TAPSCOTT

Industrial capitalism brought representative democracy, but with a weak public mandate and inert cit...
DON TAPSCOTT

The blanket assertion that corporations are people obfuscates the complex issues at play in the chan...
DON TAPSCOTT

Collaboration is important not just because it's a better way to learn. The spirit of collaborat...
DON TAPSCOTT

Knowledge is exploding, so you need to commit yourself to a plan for lifelong learning.
DON TAPSCOTT

Leadership is happening, but it's not coming from the leaders of the old institutions. Everywher...
DON TAPSCOTT

Just as the Internet drops transaction and collaboration costs in business and government, it also d...
DON TAPSCOTT

In one sense, the Internet is like the discovery of the printing press, only it's very different...
DON TAPSCOTT

We are at a punctuation point in human history where the Industrial Age and institutions have finall...
DON TAPSCOTT

The university is in danger of losing its monopoly, and for good reason. The most visible threat are...
DON TAPSCOTT

There is a fundamental change taking place in terms of how corporations create value and arguably, i...
DON TAPSCOTT

Kids are very savvy about the technology. But I'm not sure they totally understand the implications ...
DON TAPSCOTT

No one has shown any connection whatsoever between these games and tragic incidents such as Littleto...
DON TAPSCOTT

Companies that don't understand that these kids are different as consumers, are going to be in deep ...
DON TAPSCOTT

These kids are different, and they're about to change the world.
DON TAPSCOTT

These kids are 80 million alone in the U.S. They're like a tidal wave. And we've all been sitting on...
DON TAPSCOTT

This is the first generation of people that work, play, think and learn differently than their paren...
DON TAPSCOTT

Leaders of institutions everywhere have lost trust. The global economy is stalled and the world is d...
DON TAPSCOTT

Wherever you are, design your life. Live the values of your generation.
DON TAPSCOTT

Don't have work-life balance - at least in the sense of trying to escape from work so you can ha...
DON TAPSCOTT

We knew we were the underdog coming in here. We tried to tell ourselves we could win, but we got off...
DEREK TAPSCOTT

It took heart. As you can see we had things go against us all year. We didn't want our year to end t...
DEREK TAPSCOTT

We wanted it, we kept fighting back every time we got down. But we ran out of gas.
DEREK TAPSCOTT

Once again, we got lackadaisical and let them back in it. It's something we've gotta work on. We cam...
DEREK TAPSCOTT

Bud was hot, we just kept feeding him the ball.
DEREK TAPSCOTT

We're usually kinda slack when we come out, but this time we said, 'We're gonna come with some inten...
DEREK TAPSCOTT

I have no idea. Our protocol is the same as it's always been: Bernie and I, at the end of the season...
ED TAPSCOTT

We have not talked to anybody about anything.
ED TAPSCOTT

We hope we we'll get on the path for moving into the new arena (next season) and celebrating the 10t...
ED TAPSCOTT

What has gone on here in the past, I can never change. I would caution a rush to judgment on the pro...
ED TAPSCOTT

It was important to have that brand identity. And our brand fits well with the whole weather, news, ...
ED TAPSCOTT

For a minute he was taken aback. I asked him not to say anything, to think about it. Well, the more ...
ED TAPSCOTT

We're very excited to get the wider distribution. This will get us in so many more homes and reachin...
ED TAPSCOTT

It's positive in the sense that it puts the president on record as recognizing that there is a probl...
MARK TAPSCOTT

A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
DON MARQUIS

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move th...
DON MARQUIS

One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midst...
DON MARQUIS

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
DON MARQUIS

In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church ...
DON MARQUIS

Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have ...
DON MARQUIS

An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
DON MARQUIS

Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.
DON MARQUIS

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
DON MARQUIS

A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't?
DON MARQUIS

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
DON MARQUIS

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get...
DON MARQUIS

I understand what's it like to work all week and on Friday night just want to go and leave your ...
DON CHEADLE

Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny.
DON SUTTON

Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child.
DON KING

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.
DON DELILLO

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he fin...
DON DELILLO

I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work throu...
DON DELILLO

I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginnin...
DON DELILLO

I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what ...
DON DELILLO

A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his li...
DON DELILLO

There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to ...
DON DELILLO

I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.
DON DELILLO

In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.
DON DELILLO

I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to un...
DON DELILLO

The future belongs to crowds.
DON DELILLO

True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and t...
DON DELILLO

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the id...
DON DELILLO

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.
DON DELILLO

It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.
DON DELILLO

America was and is the immigrant's dream.
DON DELILLO

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract ...
DON DELILLO

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time whe...
DON DELILLO

Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.
DON DELILLO

Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.
DON HENLEY

Who picks your clothes - Stevie Wonder?
DON RICKLES

When writing, I split my time between my chambers and my satellite office: my neighborhood Chick-fil...
DON WILLETT

When I take a black-and-white portrait, it's not particularly meant to please you. It's mean...
DON MCCULLIN

Our Constitution exists to secure individual freedom, the essential condition of human flourishing. ...
DON WILLETT

I think the work that they do and the style of 3D graphics is absolutely fabulous and I think it'...
DON BLUTH

A man with a briefcase can steal millions more than any man with a gun.
DON HENLEY

I didn't just hear music. It seemed as if I were part of the music.
DON PIPER

what man calls civilizationalways results in desertsman is never on the squarehe uses up the fat and...
DON MARQUIS

ihave often noticed thatancestors never boastof the descendants who boastof ancestors i wouldrather ...
DON MARQUIS

If a bullfrog had wings it wouldn't bump his behind every time he hopped.
DON KING

The body responds to a calorie deficit by slowing down the metabolism and burning muscle tissue. Tha...
DON KARDONG

In the old days, before there was such a thing as film schools, directors learned the camera by watc...
DON AMECHE

I could have played more complex stuff. I could have been a busier player. But that's not what I...
DON HENLEY

My career is one of people involvement. I'm a promoter of the people, by the people, for the peo...
DON KING

One thing I never want to be accused of is not working.
DON SHULA

The person who has no enemies has no followers.
DON PIATT

Las Vegas is the boiling pot of entertainment.
DON RICKLES

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.
DON MARQUIS

Many a man spanks his children for the things his own father should have spanked out of him.
DON MARQUIS

So unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to somebody else.
DON MARQUIS

A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
DON MARQUIS

It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
DON MARQUIS

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long e...
DON MARQUIS

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?
DON MARQUIS

Bob Hope was totally regimented. I go in and say a line like, 'Hi Bob' and I'd have to d...
DON RICKLES

Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.
DON MARQUIS

The 2 Major US Political parties have divided and conquered the US Voters by making elections about ...
DON MASHAK

Speaking to how elections are framed in the USA: It is not Republican vs Democrat, nor Conservative ...
DON MASHAK

OZOCRACY - Watch the spectacle (or divisive, polarizing issue) we, the politicians, have created or ...
DON MASHAK

Dad wouldn't let me fool with his guitar much, because I'm left-handed, and I'd pick it ...
DON EVERLY

Old men need applause too
DON EVERLY

Good pitchers, after a tough outing, bounce back. Real good pitchers don't let too many poor gam...
DON COOPER

If you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'...
DON MARQUIS

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.
DON HEROLD

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he cou...
DON MARQUIS

Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.
DON PIATT

I am just another insect on the windshield of life.
DON MASHAK

Speak low if you speak love.
DON PEDRO

Get the job done.
DON SHULA

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.
DON SHULA

I never think when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them well.
DON MARQUIS

This is what comes from the wrong kind of attentiveness. People get brain fade. This is because they...
DON DELILLO

A naked woman was amazing.

He'd never seen it this way, in full light, without half-off c...
DON DELILLO

Throughout History, Empires have persecuted the great agitators; Noah, Socrates, Jesus, Columbus, Vo...
DON MASHAK

Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age ...
DON DELILLO

The more connections that can be made in the brain, the more integrated the experience is within mem...
DON CAMPBELL

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
DON MARQUIS

An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.
DON MARQUIS

To be great one must be positive and gain strength from your opponents.
DON PIATT

Where one door closes, another opens.
DON QUIJOTE

Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.
DON HEROLD

Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.
DON HEROLD

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
DON MARQUIS

I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in m...
DON MARQUIS

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
DON HEROLD

We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money...
DON MARQUIS

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.
DON HEROLD

There's one thing about baldness, it's neat.
DON HEROLD

America is the world's living myth. There's no sense of wrong when you kill an American or blame Ame...
DON DELILLO

I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of c...
DON DELILLO

If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the ma...
DON DELILLO

Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color.
DON HIRSCHBERG

Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for ...
DON MARQUIS

Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.
DON MARQUIS

It's easy to point when you can't heal it.
DON WALK

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.
DON HEROLD

Christian means coming from Christ. Just as a Californian comes from California and a Bostonian is s...
DON WALK

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the...
DON MARQUIS

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
DON MARQUIS

Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.
DON SHULA

An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.
DON MARQUIS

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
DON MARQUIS

Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint
DON MARQUIS

Hardship makes the world obscure.
DON DELILLO

I can do whatever I want -- I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.
DON JOHNSON

A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.
DON HEROLD

Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Proverb Don't look back, you can never look ba...
DON HENLEY

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.
DON MARQUIS

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
DON MARQUIS

I don't know any other way to lead but by example.
DON SHULA

I would rather start a family than finish one.
DON MARQUIS

now and then there is a person born who is so unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out ...
DON MARQUIS

The American Judicial System is the best appearance of justice that money can buy!
DON MASHAK

Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but b...
DON DELILLO

For every pass I caught in a game, I caught a thousand in practice.
DON HUTSON

Why resist temptation? There will always be more.
DON HEROLD

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when th...
DON DELILLO

Cause a man with a briefcase can steal more money than any man with a gun
DON HENLEY

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a...
DON BARTHELME

In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the tw...
DON DELILLO

Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
DON GALER

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
DON MARQUIS

a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely somethin...
DON MARQUIS

prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into
DON MARQUIS

Emotions are your worst enemy in the stock market.
DON HAYS

Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It's another part of the twentieth-century mind. It's t...
DON DELILLO

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
DON MARQUIS

People stress the violence. That's the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance....
DON DELILLO

Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
DON MARQUIS

The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history. This sustai...
DON DELILLO

Science has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher.
DON MARQUIS

A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that ga...
DON MARQUIS

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.
DON HEROLD

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.
DON KNUTH

The USA has become government by the highest bidder because USA voters do not hold politicians accou...
DON MASHAK

If we are on the outside, we assume a conspiracy is the perfect working of a scheme. Silent nameless...
DON DELILLO

Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth ...
DON ROFF

The nobler the blood the less the pride
DON MARQUIS

The future belongs to crowds
DON DELILLO

Christmas is the Disneyfication of Christianity
DON CUPITT

The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.
DON SHULA

Babies are such a nice way to start people.
DON HEROLD

It's a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.
DON HEROLD

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
DON MARQUIS

This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you
DON MCLEAN

An optimist is a guy who has never had much experience.
DON MARQUIS

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all a...
DON DELILLO

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.
DON KNUTH

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.
DON HEROLD

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.
DON HEROLD

Be kind and considerate to others, depending somewhat upon who they are.
DON HEROLD

The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantit...
DON MARQUIS

A man's greatness can be measured by his enemies.
DON PIATT

Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
DON WILDER

Babies are such a nice way to start people
DON HEROLD

Trying to save ecosystems has more to do with changing egosystems.
DON RITTNER

Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed.
DON WOOD

No matter how well you know the rules of netiquette, you will eventually offend someone who doesn't.
DON RITTNER

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
DON MARQUIS

May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.
DON DELILLO

There's a whole generation of young people who are faced with the so-called 'jobless recovery.' Necessity is the mother of invention. They are out there, all around the world, creating new companies.

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There's a whole generation of young people who are faced with the so-called 'jobless recovery.' Necessity is the mother of invention. They are out there, all around the world, creating new companies.

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