John Quelch Quotes

But the real focus should be on people who are buying today because the base is so big it will take a long time for any change materialize on an overall basis.

I made nothing happen very slowly.

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

I think with bridal fashion, it moves very slowly.

Change is incremental. Change is small.

What was once dormant is now a Creeping Thing

Our success at Cisco has been defined by how we anticipate, capture, and lead through market transitions. Over the years, I've watched iconic companies disappear - Compaq, Sun Microsystems, Wang, Digital Equipment - as they failed to anticipate where the market was heading.

Trendy gadgets and edgy pitches inevitably get replaced due to the fickle nature of the buying public, but a business designed from the start to play big has the ability to weather trends and redirect itself to venues and products that its customers want and need.

When change takes place gradually, it's difficult to comprehend its meaning.

We're guided by consumer data, and it helps give us the confidence to invest where the consumer is going.

If you throw a frog in boiling water, he'll just hop out. But if you put him in warm water and slowly amp up the temperature, he won't notice and end up boiled.

As a consumer goods company serving billions of consumers every day, Unilever understands the drivers and motivations that create the norms that lie behind people's behaviour.

The novelty business is astounding. We can't keep up with it.

The promotional environment is part of the world we live in.

Reform and exchange in English poetry are as slow as in the British constitution itself.

I think it's about being really smart about hitting the right consumer product spaces at the right time.

Growth becomes less important than stability; we have to give people changes slowly.

For all it is a smaller country in terms of geography, Holland is the most closely aligned market to the U.K. in terms of trend. It is a big nation of card-makers and paper crafters, and Germany's market is at least five times larger than over here.

Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow

Slowly would be better than not at all.

The truth is that the first changes are so slow they pass almost unnoticed, and you go on seeing yourself as you always were, from the inside, but others observe you from the outside.

Time passed slowly, like and old man climbing a hill.

True progress is slow but sure.

All real progress must be slow.

Life goes on forever like the gnawing of a mouse.