Quotes About Creation

The creation of blue oceans, in other words, is a product of strategy and as such is very much a product of managerial action.

opportunity-maximizing and risk-minimizing principles driving the creation and capture of blue oceans, the odds will be lengthened against your blue ocean initiative.

we have observed a consistent pattern of strategic thinking behind the creation of new markets and industries, what we call blue ocean strategy.

What we look for determines what we see. When we assume that the only way we can create a new market is by disrupting an old one, opportunities for nondisruptive creation can be easily missed. People tend to focus their attention on the core of existing markets and what it would take to disrupt the existing order. This narrows their vision and blinds them to the wealth of nondisruptive market-creating moves they could make.

plans, as of yet there has been no theory or process for true strategy creation. We believe the four-step process proposed here goes a long way to correct this situation. By being built around a picture, it addresses many of managers' discontents with existing strategic planning and yields much better results. As Aristotle pointed out, "The soul never thinks without an image.

os próprios clientes não são capazes de imaginar como criar novos espaços de mercado inexplorado.

industry history shows, new market spaces are being created every day and are fluid with imagination.

The traditional units of strategic analysis—company and industry—have little explanatory power when it comes to analyzing how and why blue oceans are created. (..) The most appropriate unit of analysis for explaining the creation of blue oceans is the strategic move—the set of managerial actions and decisions involved in making a major market creating business offering.

What a blue ocean strategist recognizes, and what most of us all too often forget, is that while industry conditions exist, individual firms created them. And just as individual firms created them, individual firms can shape them too

As of yet there has been no theory or process for true strategy creation.

Letting go of judgments, the art of creating images and "letting it happen" are three of the basic skills involved in the Inner Game.

I look at my own body With eyes no longer blind— And I see that my own hands can make The world that's in my mind. Then let us hurry, comrades, The road to find.

Dream Dust Gather out of star-dust Earth-dust, Cloud-dust, Storm-dust, And splinters of hail, One handful of dream-dust Not for sale.

Gather out of star-dust, Earth-dust, Cloud-dust, Storm-dust, And splinters of hail, One handful of dream-dust, Not for sale.

Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-

The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.

All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.

The Eternal generates the One. The One generates the Two. The Two generates the Three. The Three generates all things.

Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time' is like saying, 'I don't want to.'

God made white people boring, then yawned and they all turned to stone.

Babies are bits of stardust, blown from the hand of God. Lucky the woman who knows the pangs of birth, for she has held a star.

As a writer, you are that architect.