John Kay Quotes

#1. The claim that the only constraints on our success are the limits of our imagination, although generally false, has lifted hearts for millennia. Grand visions take precedence over prosaic numbers.

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#2. The great muckraker Upton Sinclair had expressed a deep insight into the relationship between the world of ideas and the world of practical men: 'It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.'34

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#3. There is a role for carrots and sticks, but to rely on carrots and sticks alone is effective only when we employ donkeys and we are sure exactly what we want the donkeys to do.

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#4. The disparities of income and wealth in the world today are an affront to any reflective person.

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#5. Stock markets are not a way of putting money into companies, but a means of taking it out. The

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#6. organisers of weight-guessing competitions and advisers helping people to refine their guesses.

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#7. becomes a competitive advantage when it

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#8. In war, resources lead to success: in business, success leads to resources. This is a fundamental difference between the processes of war and competition.

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