If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be
Quotes
Jane Jacobs
The president of Du Pont, a company that has tried to systematize its development work to the highest degree possible, has told a Fortune
Jane Jacobs
economic development, no matter when or where it occurs, is profoundly subversive of the status quo.
Jane Jacobs
Henry Ford failed twice at automobile manufacturing, once as a manager employed by others and again with a company he started himself.
Jane Jacobs
…without creativity, there is really very little, if any, ‘progress’ that money can buy.
Jane Jacobs
…the sheer purposefulness and interest of the work, as a quality apart from its uses, exerts an immense attraction…It may be that many people
Jane Jacobs
The primary economic conflict, I think, is between people whose interests are with already well-established economic activities, and those whose interests are with the
Jane Jacobs
Conformity and monotony, even when they are embellished with a froth of novelty, are not attributes of developing and economically vigorous cities.
Daniel H. Elrod, VP of sales and marketing, UST
You can have the best thing in the world, but if you can’t get it in consumer’s hands, you lose.
Henry Fielding
There are a set of religious, or rather moral, writers who teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery,