“All we are doing is looking at the time line,” he said, “from the moment the customer gives us an order to the point when we collect the cash. And we are reducing that time line by removing the non-value-added wastes.”
“One day a man walked into a London agency and asked to see the boss. He had bought a country house and was about to open it as a hotel. Could the agency help him to get customers? He had $500 to spend. Not surprisingly, the head of the agency turned him over to the office boy, who happened to be the author of this book. I invested his money in penny postcards and mailed them to well-heeled people living in the neighborhood. Six weeks later the hotel opened to a full house. I had tasted blood.”
― Ogilvy on Advertising
― Ogilvy on Advertising
“Over time, I came to the conclusion that designing an excellent user experience was as much about preventing negative experiences as facilitating positive ones.”
― Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
― Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
“Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it [a product] looks like. People think it’s this veneer—that the designers are handed this box and told, “Make it look good!” That’s not what we think design is. It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
― Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
― Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
“Simplicity is a form of humility, and simplicity is a sign of true greatness. Meekness is a sign of humility, and meekness is a sign of true strength.”
― The Lombardi Rules: 26 Lessons from Vince Lombardi--The World's Greatest Coach
― The Lombardi Rules: 26 Lessons from Vince Lombardi--The World's Greatest Coach
“Within this process, every individual act of building is a process in which space gets differentiated. It is not a process of addition, in which preformed parts are combined to create a whole, but a process of unfolding, like the evolution of an embryo, in which the whole precedes the parts, and actually gives birth to them, by splitting.”
― The Timeless Way of Building
― The Timeless Way of Building
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