Alan Fletcher Quotes

#1. If you haven't read Alan Fletcher's The Art of Looking Sideways you should be arrested for calling yourself a Designer

Bob Gill

#2. Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

E. E. Cummings

#3. Who comes first? Don't be silly, says King Hal; it's employees. That is - and this dear Watson, is elementary - if you genuinely want to put customers first, you must put employees more first.

Tom Peters

#4. Strap a piece of toast -buttered side up- to the back of a cat. Throw the cat out of the window.
Will the cat land on its feet or will Murphy's law apply?

Alan Fletcher

#5. Is this a private fight, or can anyone join?

Laurell K. Hamilton

#6. It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

Lillian Hellman

#7. You gotta show kids YOU'RE not scared (even if inside at times you are) and when you show you're not afraid of the "monsters" then they too will stand up even when the lights are off.

Jill Telford

#8. Many entrepreneurs have shifted their focus to pursuing VC funding as a primary strategic priority instead of concentrating on generating value for their users. This is worrisome because raising capital alone is misleading as a benchmark for success.

Jon Oringer

#9. I will be in my coffin before I will fight again under your command.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

#10. Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote of sources.

William Least Heat-Moon

#11. With few exceptions, those who dress outrageously are robust or even antifragile in reputation; those clean-shaven types who dress in suits and ties are fragile to information about them.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#12. Prayer is the starting point for every decision you make.

Jim George

#13. The goal of a designer is to listen, observe, understand, sympathize, empathize, synthesize and glean insights that enable him or her to make the invisible visible

Hillman Curtis