Jeff Jarvis Quotes

The information revolution has changed people's perception of wealth. We originally said that land was wealth. Then we thought it was industrial production. Now we realize it's intellectual capital. The market is showing us that intellectual capital is far more important that money. This is a major change in the way the world works. the same thing that happened to the farmers during the Industrial Revolution is now happening to people in industry as we move into the information age.

Once we link up and network, there will be new institutions, new beginnings, and a change in the economy because capitalism is destroying many people's lives. It's just one leap to think in a different way.

The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution.

The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory.

A system where self-employment and self-finance was typical gave way to a system of companies having various business freedoms and enabling institutions. This was the 'great transformation' on which historians and sociologists as well as business commentators were to write volumes.

There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century.

I still believe that the mission of Business 2.0 is very strong, very fundamental, and we're really at the beginning of where they're going to take us.

Technological 'revolutions' don't really overthrow anything - they simply append a new and dynamic market to that which went before.

Cities have made the transition from industrial to service economies.

… post-industrial society

The story of the next century is the transition from an industrial, resourced-based economy to a knowledge economy.

For years and years, people would say, 'The business is changing.' And I would say, 'The business is not changing. It's exactly the same as it was in the '70s, the '80s and the '90s.' But all of a sudden, the business changed, and it really did change.

By leveraging technology, innovation, and the power of community, Weight Watchers will be able to realize the full growth potential of the business.

A new forum is needed that reflects the realities of today's globalised world and the rising importance of emerging markets.

Responsible employers who pursue bold growth agendas must embrace intelligent technologies.

The progressive integration of new technologies in our economy amounts to a paradigm shift with a profound impact on the context and content of work.

By strengthening the core of our business and leading in digital innovation, we will accelerate growth, enhance our margin, and deliver increased total shareholder returns.

We see these wonderful apps that really have changed our world in many good ways such as Uber or Airbnb, but at the same time, they're drastically changing the workforce. And they're changing them so much that the industries themselves are not able to keep up.

Somehow over the years people have gotten the impression that Wal-Mart was...just this great idea that turned into an overnight success. But...it was an outgrowth of everything we'd been doing since [1945]...And like most overnight successes, it was about twenty years in the making.

You cannot go to sleep with one form of economic system and wake up the next morning with another.

Companies that build scale for the benefit of their customers and shareholders more often succeed over time.

Throughout the 20th century, we created wealth through vertically integrated corporations. Now, we create wealth through networks. We are at a turning point in human history, where the industrial age has finally run out of gas.

One thing, change, is what everyone says. The question is, what type of change? What's the right change to produce a different outcome for the people left behind by globalization?

People are aware that they cannot continue in the same old way but are immobilized because they cannot imagine an alternative. We need a vision that recognizes that we are at one of the great turning points in human history when the survival of our planet and the restoration of our humanity require a great sea change in our ecological, economic, political, and spiritual values.

People talk about "job creation," as if that had ever been the aim the industrial economy. The aim was to replace people with machines.