Great Quotes

Thanks a colleague from CustomWare for sharing these great quotes, again no ideology involved but all pragmatic distilled from quoter's years of hard work and experience.

• We are truly unlimited, if we only dare to try and have faith."
  - Sri Chinmoy
  
  
• "We must be the change we wish to see in the world."
  - Mahatma Gandhi
  
  
• "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
  - Martin Luther King Jr.
  
  
• "When I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things... I am tempted to think there are no little things."
  - Bruce Barton
  
  
• "If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten."
  - Anthony Robbins
  
  
• "Being beaten is often a temporary condition, giving up is what makes it permanent."
  - Marilyn vos Savant
  
  
• "I have more respect for the fellow with a single idea who gets there than for the fellow with a thousand ideas who does nothing."
  - Thomas Edison
  
  
• "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
  - Albert Einstein
  
  
• "Ideas without action are worthless."
  - Harvey Mackay
  
  
• "Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well."
  - Josh Billings
  
  
• "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change."
  - Charles Darwin
  
  
• "Every object in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in that state of motion unless an external force is applied to it."
  - Isaac Newton
  
  
• "Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
  - Will Rogers
  
  
• "If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking."
  - Buckminster Fuller

Expressions of Inspiration

• "Always ask questions - it means you're serious, not stupid."
  
  
• "Things happen to us, but it's our reactions that matter."
  
  
• "The more that I know, the more that I know I need to know."
  
  
• "Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped."
  
  
• "I'd rather be at the bottom of a ladder that I want to climb, than at the top of one that I don't want to be on."

In the market for consumer goods, the speed of releasing new models reins

Sydney's weather is as unpredictable as usual, four seasons in a week becomes a norm. Does that imitate what current economic situation is like?

Buying a new Sony laptop at moment, and again dazzled by the varieties and models this greatest electronic gadget maker offers. Dazzled as Sony slabs are as stylish as usual but most importantly also confused as a noticeable portion of models are priced differently despite almost-identical look-and-feel and very similar in specs.

Almost true for any electronics, consumers tend to wait after a new model coming out. They wait for the price to drop as it usually drops after a few months when the new becomes old while the old is no big different from the new. In a fiercely competitive market where price can only go down, how does a company maintain a healthy margin while not wasting their assembly line erected for a new model? They create a bunch of models through the same assembly line with a little tweak to the shape and specs. Then drop the price for one for sale while releasing another claiming a new model has born.