"Perfection is reached not when there’s nothing left to add, but when there’s nothing left to take away"
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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"Most initial abbreviations are pronounced as the sum of the individual letters and are therefore not acronyms. Non-acronym initial abbreviations are arbitrary signs."
— Per Mollerup in “Marks of Excellence: The History and Taxonomy of Trademarks”
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"When putting a team — in sports or in business — you don’t want to rely too much on one star player. Seek a rich mix of personas and personalities."
— Tom Kelley with Jonathan Littman in “The Ten Faces of Innovation”
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"You can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club"
— Jack London
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"To be is to do (JJ Rousseau) - To do is to be (JP Sartre) - Do be do be do (F. Sinatra)"
— Jack Foster, Chapter 10: Learn How to Combine in “How to Get Ideas”
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"Open business models can be used by companies to create and capture value by systematically collaborating with outside partners. This may happen from the outside-in by exploiting external ideas within the firm, or from the inside-out by providing external parties with ideas or assets lying idle within the firm."
— Osterwald and Pigneur in “Business Model Generation”
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"People don’t think enough. People don’t use their brain. They use copy-paste. Your brain is free. It is fast. Wickedly fast."
— Erik Spiekermann (1947), German typographer.
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