Quotes About System

The media agency model has been hit by a perfect storm ... We are chasing share in a broken system, rather than changing the system.

If you want to sustain excellence over a long time, you'd better come up with a system that works well. Anyone can sprint for a little while, but you can't sprint for forty years.

Obama is attacking every business. He is attacking every employer and employee. He is attacking the system. He has a perverse mind.

Despite some struggles of our own, Americas business and economic system remains the envy of much of the world.

Big business has many tools to make us pay for the crisis of their system.

Dispatch is the soul of business, and nothing contributes more to dispatch than method.

Where is the pricing system that offers the consumer a fair choice between air to breathe and motor cars to drive about in?

A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system.

Generally, cars were not built to sit on dealer lots. It encourages the wrong kind of behavior in the whole system.

When different generations of cars are combined into one train, it messes with the loudspeaker system.

If at the first sign of infection, you always jump in with antibiotics, you do not give the immune system a chance to grow stronger.

As a rule, theory does not precede practice. Its role is to structure and codify already proven practice. Its role is to convert the isolated and "atypical" from exception to "rule" and "system," and therefore into something that can be learned and taught and, above all, into something that can be generally applied.

Abandon what is about to be obsolete, develop a system to exploit your successes, and develop a systematic approach to innovation.

Sentience is brought into being somehow from the evolution of sensing and acting; it involves being a living system with a point of view on the world around it

ever mention the opportunistic diseases that actually felled the victims. They never mention that these diseases galloped in through the open gate of a collapsed immune system – collapsed because of Aids.

There is no question that "discourse penetrates a fair way into the perceptual system" (Harre and Gillet 1994, p. 169).

It's not just tougher out there. It's become a situation where the contest is how much you can destroy the system, rather than how much you can make it work. It makes no difference if you have a 'D' or an 'R' after your name. There's no sense that this is about democracy, and after the election you have to work together, and knit the country together. The people in the game now just think to the first Tuesday in November, and not a day beyond it.

Anyone can discern the evils of the factory system or the Terror. But it takes considerable wisdom to discern the evils embedded in the staccato blather of a seventeen-year-old girl.

This is a crucial safeguard of our capitalist system, because if shareholders could be sued whenever a company made a mistake, people like you and me would be afraid to buy shares and become investors. Why would we want to run the risk of being held responsible for another big oil spill, or a rat hair in a hamburger, or the endless variety of mishaps that occur in business every day? Without limited liability, nobody would want to buy a single share of stock.

Cause and effect are not closely related in time and space.

If I learned anything … it is the notion that we need to be working on all different parts of the system in order to successfully change the whole system

Rather than signalling the aspiration for system of checks and balances against absolute power, democracy become a euphemism for majority rule.

For nomadic societies, there was no point in owning anything that one could not carry, but once humans settled down and developed a system of money, that limit to acquisition disappeared.

Marx saw that capitalism is a wasteful, irrational system, a system which controls us when we should be controlling it. That insight is still valid; but we can now see that the construction of a free and equal society is a more difficult task than Marx realized.