To be competitive, you no longer could have a slow, hierarchical, command-and-control decision-making process that was also far removed from the customer. You make a product-decision mistake or miss a product generation, and that could be fatal in a fast-moving world.
Douglas Norby
Related Every day, you can make the decision to have a sustainable product or the cheapest product. ELI REICH The expert could be wrong. And we need to make a decision and that was the decision that we made. PETER KALIKOW The wrong decision in this case could be a fatal one. GARY GAMBARDELLA It's not about making the right choice. It's about making a choice and making it right. J.R. RIM It's not about making the right choice. It's about making a choice and making it right. J.R. RIM Traditional television broadcast advertising strives to raise consumer awareness of a product or ser... DAVID MANDELBROT People themselves makes a lots of mistakes and still loves himself,
and they never forget a single m... OM BENIWAL You can not change what happened or bring back the past. But you can change the future by being stro... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA I never said to be like me, I say be yourself and make a difference. MARILYN MANSON I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea... DEYTH BANGER There's the 'right way' and the 'usual way'. Folks tend to confuse both. The right way i... UFUOMA APOKI A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE In order to get the sale , the shopper must be thinking of your product or service at the moment the... WALT MCINTYRE Sometimes, you may take a step backwards only to realize that a step forward could have been the bes... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The implication that everyone would have to accept its judgments uncritically, that it was a decisio... EDWIN MEESE The implication that everyone would have to accept its judgments uncritically, that it was a decisio... EDWIN MEESE III I could make a difference. CHRIS BURKE The conventional wisdom suggests that those who make hard and fast decisions for a living are prosec... EROLL SKYERS People live for eating,but
I eat for survive OM BENIWAL I remember back in the early days of Microsoft that from the day that you decided that you were just... GABE NEWELL if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Unsubscribe from should-a, would-a, could-a MICHAEL H. DANSBURY Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS The perception could be that that relationship would influence the outcome of this transaction. It's... BECKY CARROLL We wish we could have made a decision more quickly but we do not want to make a mistake. GERARD SCHWARZ If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o... DEYTH BANGER I grew up learning from a father who said, 'When you make a mistake or you make a bad decision, ... LANE GARRISON Every decision you make is a mistake. EDWARD DAHLBERG If you just allow passions of the day to rule in the decision-making process, I?m under the opinion ... JEFF COLLINS In the car industry, superior design is critical. Product design defines the first impression the cu... CARLOS GHOSN When you're trying to solve a problem on a new product type, you become completely focused on pr... JONATHAN IVE You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice. APURVA GAGLANI It was a fatal mistake and they were punished for their decision to go against family and social cus... AJAY KUMAR The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined ... ORISON SWETT MARDEN If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man. MARAT SAFIN the central error was that we used weaponry that anyone involved in the decision-making process shou... HAIM RAMON The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE Do you want to be a man of today or a man of tomorrow? MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK What will make you a star is in you SOTONYE ANGA When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually. T. D. JAKES If some sort of event had occurred right before the customer called, and the representative didn't h... BILL GLASSMAN There's nothing like making a decision when you're a football referee. It really pushes you ... SUZAN DELBENE To know wisdom is to be all knowledgeable ,to use that knowledge for the greater good is to no that ... GARY F EVANS... I like the word 'fuck'. The word means what it means, but it also means whatever you need it to mean... LISA GLATT To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In add... BEN HOROWITZ Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one. ARIANNA HUFFINGTON Defensively, I could be a lot better; my decision-making at times can be a bit poor. DELE ALLI We no longer wait weeks or months for a decision to be made. ASLAM KHAN Asarco doesn't concede that any violation occurred, because it was a commercial chemical product and... TOM ALDRICH I don't want to end up simply having visited this world. MARY OLIVER It's the curiosity that drives me. It's making a difference in the world that prevents me from ever ... DEBORAH MEIER Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as w... MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN You don’t have to know a lot of things for your life to make a lasting difference in the world. Bu... JOHN PIPER I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because... EDWARD EVERETT HALE If you think you are too small to make a difference, you have obviously never been in bed with a mos... PETER STROPLE Make a difference always and in all ways! PETER STROPLE This decision was extremely difficult and is in no way a reflection on the performance of the employ... BOB HARRIS One of the things that I really like about young adult fiction is that you can explore the relations... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Slow parents understand that childrearing should not be a cross between a competitive sport and prod... CARL HONORE To be lazy is stupid, to be a muscle machine is a crazy thing... and how far we go or father we all ... DEYTH BANGER It's no longer the default segment that everybody just falls into. You have to have a product that's... KARL BRAUER When you buy their product, you have to register with it. They make you register with it in order to... IRA WINKLER Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ... SARAH DARER LITTMAN A small change can make a big difference. You are the only one who can make our world a better place... ANKITA SINGHAL This is very similar to the suggestion put forward by the Quirmian philosopher Ventre, who said, "Po... TERRY PRATCHETT When you deal with change, you have a couple choices: you can lead it and make the rules, or you can... CHARLIE ERGEN I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only s... PETER F. DRUCKER Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only s... PETER DRUCKER It can't be that difficult to build a great thermostat. So I decided to figure out: What would t... TONY FADELL This is a business that without product you are nothing?the ultimate decision is made by 15 year old... FAYE LANDES It's pretty nerve-racking. You work most of your life for a goal, and to have that in someone else's... CASEY DAIGLE Our earlier decision to remove the product was misinterpreted. LOUISE WENDLING To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY You can either make a generic product and be so efficient that you offer a low price, or, if you mak... ELLEN MILLER Whether you're a second lieutenant working with a captain and a lieutenant colonel, or a four-st... JOHN F. KELLY When people begin to define the things that they believe in, based upon the exclusion of all the thi... C. JOYBELL C. Projections are bullshit. They're just guesses. Wait until the real thing happens and then when it h... JASON FRIED When everyone has a microphone, you can't hear anything. Choose one voice carefully and listen in. RICHIE NORTON An unwise decision could lead to a dangerous situation, not only in Iran and in the (Gulf) region bu... AKBAR HASHEMI RAFSANJANI Usually, when you make a decision in life, unless you have access to parallel universes, you can'... TIBOR FISCHER [Souder applauded the GAO decision and crowed that he had helped block a] partisan attack ... Basica... MARK SOUDER The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE Don't be a product of your surrounding, instead strive to make your surroundings a product of you SYNECA DE JORMUNGAND «…you’re too old not to have had, how shall I say, certain experiences. You’ve had bad intern... DOUGLAS COUPLAND Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only s... PETER DRUCKER The atheist might have
no proof for the
supernatural, but they
also have no proof
against it. If we ... LEWIS N. ROE Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.” ... A.A. MILNE When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w... A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s... CARTER CROCKER There was no decision to make _ it was already made, ... My daughter could have died down there. Thi... BARBARA ROBERTS There was no decision to make - it was already made, ... My daughter could have died down there. Thi... BARBARA ROBERTS There was no decision to make -- it was already made, ... My daughter could have died down there. Th... BARBARA ROBERTS There was no decision to make ? it was already made, ... My daughter could have died down there. Thi... BARBARA ROBERTS
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KIRK DOUGLAS The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded prof... DOUGLAS HOFSTADTER Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the w... NORMAN DOUGLAS Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find... NORMAN DOUGLAS A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and ... NORMAN DOUGLAS Today's environment is beginning to threaten today's organizations, finding them seriously deficient... DOUGLAS ENGELBART I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work. MICHAEL DOUGLAS You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from w... NORMAN DOUGLAS He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity -- a state of mind which, by ... NORMAN DOUGLAS It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest. NORMAN DOUGLAS It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pock... DOUGLAS HURD I've never felt better. DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends. NORMAN DOUGLAS It isn't by size that you win or fail -- be the best of whatever you are. DOUGLAS MALLOCH When you determined what you want, you have made the most important decision of your life. You have ... DOUGLAS LURTAN The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing whe... DOUGLAS EVERETT People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of thei... NORMAN DOUGLAS How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents ... NORMAN DOUGLAS Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it. NORMAN DOUGLAS So, my argument is that as we become more and more scientifically literate, it DOUGLAS ADAMS The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day. NORMAN DOUGLAS It is known that there is an infinite number of worlds, but that not every one is inhabited. Therefo... DOUGLAS ADAMS