Quotes About Impact

As the world recognizes Wilberforce, his work, and his Savior, let us not fall into former pits of forgetfulness.

What happened is surprisingly simple: William Wilberforce was the happy victim of his own success.

Once this idea was loosed upon the world, the world changed.

Ideas have far-reaching consequences, and one must be ever so careful about what one allows to lodge in one's brain.

Although I know full well and hear every day that many people think little of me and say that I only write little pamphlets and sermons in German for the uneducated laity, I do not let that stop me. Would to God that in my lifetime I had, to my fullest ability, helped one layman to be better!

Soon everyone spoke German the way Luther's translation did. As television has had a homogenizing effect on the accents and dialects of Americans, watering down accents and sanding down sharp twangs, Luther's Bible created a single German tongue.

Taken all together, it's difficult to escape the verdict that William Wilberforce was simply the greatest social reformer in the history of the world.

Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it.

War…next to love, has most captured the world's imagination" – Eric Partridge, famous lexicographer and author who served in the Australian Imperial Force during WWI

Metcalfe's law: the value of a network as a whole is proportional to the square of the number of participants. In other words, the more people in the network, the more valuable the network.

This is an important rule: a good design is one that changes customer behavior for the better.

New customers come from the actions of past customers.

Si yo eligiera un empleado al azar de cualquier nivel, departamento o región, y ese empleado tuviera una idea absolutamente brillante que abriera una fuente de crecimiento radicalmente nueva, ¿qué tendría que hacer para llevar su idea a la práctica? ¿Dispone la empresa de las herramientas de gestión necesarias para ampliar esa idea a fin de que genere el máximo impacto, aun cuando no se ajuste a ninguna de las líneas de negocio actuales?

In most cases, the answer was no; success was driven by decisions the team had made in the past. None of its current initiatives were having any impact. But this was obscured because the company's gross metrics were all "up and to the right.

Metcalfe's law: the value of a network as a whole is proportional to the square of the number of participants.

The big question of our time is not Can it be built? but Should it be built?

good design is one that changes customer behavior for the better.

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The challenge here is to create a mechanism for empowering innovation teams out in the open. This is the path toward a sustainable culture of innovation over time as companies face repeated existential threats. My suggested solution is to create a sandbox for innovation that will contain the impact of the new innovation but not constrain the methods of the startup team.

a good design is one that changes customer behavior for the better.

Split testing often uncovers surprising things. For example, many features that make the product better in the eyes of engineers and designers have no impact on customer behavior.

see startups succeed and change the world. The passion,

When the superior programmer refrains from coding, his force is felt for a thousand miles.

Americans already drink soda at an annual rate of about fifty-six gallons per person – that's nearly six hundred twelve-ounce cans of soda per person.