Arie de Geus quotes

“The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be only sustainable competitive advantage.”
-- Arie de Geus

Source : "Planning as Learning". hbr.org. March 1988.

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“Companies die because their managers focus on the economic activity of producing goods and services, and they forget that their organizations' true nature is that of a community of humans.”
-- Arie de Geus

Source : Arie de Geus (2002). “The Living Company”, p.3, Harvard Business Press

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“A company's success no longer depends primarily on its ability to raise investment capital. Success depends on the ability of its people to learn together and produce new ideas.”
-- Arie de Geus

Source : "Arie de Geus: The Thought Leader Interview". Interview with S+B, www.strategy-business.com. April 1, 2001.

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“Once a company has adapted to a new environment, it is no longer the organization it used to be; it has evolved. That is the essence of learning.”
-- Arie de Geus

Source : "The Living Company: Growth, Learning and Longevity in Business". Book by Arie de Geus, 1999.

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“I admit that one should never underestimate the capacity of banks to destroy enormous amounts of accumulated capital and reduce, temporarily, the supply. After all, capital is the accumulated savings of mankind. And banks are great masters in destroying enormous amounts of capital with great regularity.”
-- Arie de Geus

Source : "Arie de Geus: The Thought Leader Interview". Interview with S+B, www.strategy-business.com. April 1, 2001.

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“Since today's companies are totally dependent on a continuing human membership that produces a superior intellectual output in comparison to the competition, then there is inevitably a fight over the right to the bottom line.”
-- Arie de Geus

Source : "Arie de Geus: The Thought Leader Interview". Interview with S+B, www.strategy-business.com. April 1, 2001.

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“A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.”

Source : A. A. Milne (2013). “The Red House Mystery and Other Novels”, p.1247, eBookIt.com

“It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.”

“Books are totally useless unless you take their advice. If you just keep reading them, thinking "that's so insightful! that changes everything," but never actually doing anything different, then pretty quickly the feeling will wear off and you'll start searching for another book to fill the void.”

“Today is the first day of the rest of your life.”

“I wanna be the best at what I do. I wanna sing, I wanna dance, I wanna act. That's about it.”

“Self-actualizing people are those who have come to a high level of maturation, health and self-fulfillment... the values that self-actualizers appreciate include truth, creativity, beauty, goodness, wholeness, aliveness, uniqueness, justice, simplicity, and self-sufficiency.”

“The hardest part about being an entrepreneur is that you'll fail ten times for every success.”

“Basketball is my favorite sport, and I'm also a very passionate football fan.”

“If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.”

“I've always envied the kind of coach who could go completely out of his mind and nobody would know the difference.”