WIST Quotations

McLaughlin, Mignon -- The Neurotic’s Notebook, ch. 5 (1963)

Dave — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 17:31:12 +0000

If an article is attractive, or useful, or inexpensive, they’ll stop making it tomorrow; if it’s all three, they stopped making it yesterday.

Mignon McLaughlin (1913-1983) American journalist and author
The Neurotic’s Notebook, ch. 5 (1963)
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Ohmae, Kenichi -- The Mind of the Strategist (1982)

Dave — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 20:29:36 +0000

More strategies fail because they are overripe than because they are premature.

Kenichi Ohmae (b. 1943) Japanese management consultant, writer
The Mind of the Strategist (1982)
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Ebner-Eschenbach, Marie von -- Aphorisms [Aphorismen], No. 280 (1880) [tr. Wister (1883)]

Dave — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 13:19:13 +0000

So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.

[Sobald eine Mode allgemein geworden ist, hat sie sich überlebt.]

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) Austrian writer
Aphorisms [Aphorismen], No. 280 (1880) [tr. Wister (1883)]
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(Source (German)). Alternate translation:

As soon as fashion has caught on, it has outlived itself.
[tr. Scrase/Mieder (1994)]

Thoreau, Henry David -- Walden; or, Life in the Woods, ch. 1 “Economy” (1854)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Walden; or, Life in the Woods, ch. 1 “Economy” (1854)
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