Business Differentiation Quotes

#1. Contrary to what most of us believe, happiness does not simply happen to us. It's something that we make happen, and it results from doing our best. Feeling fulfilled when we live up to our potentialities is what motivates differentiation and leads to evolution.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#2. Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual check upon each other.

William Blackstone

#3. It becomes a question of 'How do we convey our differentiation instantaneously?' and drive a wedge between any apparent (or assumed) sameness in the marketplace.

David Brier

#4. A third path that a business can follow - an offshoot of our two main strategies - is pursuing a highly targeted market and focusing its resources on serving that tight segment, whether through cost leadership or differentiation. This is the focus strategy.

Anonymous

#5. But of these things I must not now speak. I will tell only of the lone tomb in the darkest of the hillside thickets.

H.P. Lovecraft

#6. The best way to motivate me is to tell me no,

Mick Ebeling

#7. Ding-dong," I said. "The bitch is dead.

Jennifer Estep

#8. Shaft was standing next to a newstsand about thirty yards from the Con Ed crew when Kelly came out of the red-brick highrise, the glossy haven of the spade who's made it. It rose like an insult to all the failure around it, a fifteen-story middle finger that said up yours to the old neighborhood.

Ernest Tidyman

#9. Branding is the art of differentiation

David Brier

#10. Honor to the government, and obedience, and also to the crooked government! So desires good sleep. How can I help it, if power likes to walk on crooked legs?

Friedrich Nietzsche

#11. The decisions you make today will determine the stories you tell tomorrow.

Craig Groeschel

#12. The secret of what anything means to us depends on how we've connected it to all the other things we know. That's why it's almost always wrong to seek the "real meaning" of anything. A thing with just one meaning has scarcely any meaning at all.

Marvin Minsky

#13. My parents were dismayed by my love of horror movies as a young girl, then even more dismayed when I kept rooting for Dracula to win instead of Van Helsing.

Jeaniene Frost

#14. So are you saying that somebody went to all the trouble to make you a crypt a thousand years ago on the off chance that you might turn up one day, walk in, and have a convenient heart attack?

Garth Nix

#15. Over generations, the gene pool of the first farmers became increasingly dominated by individuals who could drink beer on a regular basis. Most of the world's population today is made up of descendants of those early beer drinkers, and we have largely inherited their genetic tolerance for alcohol.

Steven Johnson

#16. Most business processes are about making choices from a set of existing alternatives. Clearly, if all your competition is doing the same, then differentiation is tough. In order to innovate, we have to have new alternatives and new solutions to problems, and that is what design can do.

Tim Brown

#17. One month flies by when you're falling love with the woman you're using for sex. Two is an eternity when the woman you love leaves you.

Christina Lauren