From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they too were old, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
Somerset Maugham
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Quote Friday #4: Old vs. Young
Quote Friday #3: The Beginning of the Creative Age
Not long after agriculture first appeared, two separate economic classes were created:those who owned land, and those who worked on land owned by others. To this day, we say that people with old money are part of the landed class. The industrial revolution created an additional type of “landed” class-the capitalist factory owner. Capitalists owned factories, and others worked in them.
Now our basic social structure is about to be changed once again, very dramatically-this time by 1: technologies. As destructive as this change will be to the current social order, it nevertheless will be built on a very basic, and very worthy, premise: the creative liberation of the individual.
Don Peppers and Martha Rogers, The One to One Future
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Quote Friday #2: Media Men are From Mars, Media Women from Venus
Spent last year working mostly on FHM, recently mostly been working on Grazia, and something struck me about the differences in men and women’s media and thus attitudes:
In women’s lifestyle, most of the content is spent making women look great by dressing them in fancy clothes. In men’s lifestyle, it’s about making women look great when you take them off.
Quote Friday #1: Getting Stuck on Stupid
My colleague Gil Likes to quote US Army Lieutenant General Russell Honore, pointing out that too many people get “stuck on stupid”.
I’m imagining that your colleagues aren’t stupid. But when the world changes, the rules change. And if you insist on playing today’s games by yesterday’s rules, you’re stuck. Stuck with a stupid strategy. Because the world changes.
Some organisations are stuck. Others move quickly. In a changing world, who’s having more fun?
Seth Godin, Tribes
