Osterwalder Business Quotes & Sayings

You need to be naive enough to do things differently. No big publishing house would have allowed us to co-create a fully designed, four color business book in landscape format - because it was contrary to the publishing industry logic. However, we thought of Business Model Generation as a product, not just a book - similar to Apple products. — Alexander Osterwalder

I mean, i was into their music and everything way before I knew what they looked like, but they had their pictures in the CD insert and when Victoria and I got it, we were both like, "Why, hellooooo there." Plus, they were British. I'm a sucker for cute boys with guitars, as you may have noticed, but throw in a London accent and I'll happily sell my soul without a second thought. — Robin Benway

Positive stress, negative stress, - stress no less. It's all in how you manage your energies. — Jo-Ann L. Tremblay

It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many — Martin Luther King Jr.

Founders go wrong when they start to believe their business plan will materialize as written. I advise entrepreneurs to burn their business plan - it's simply too dangerous to the health of your business. — Alexander Osterwalder

Trust what your instincts are telling you, it's your souls voice pointing you in the right direction. — Nikki Rowe

The mountain is not something eternally sublime; it has a great historic and spiritual meaning to us. It stands for us as the ladder of life. Nay, more; it is the ladder of the soul and in a curious way the source of religion. From it came the Law, from it came the Gospel in the Sermon of the Mount. We may trul say that the highest religion is the Religion of the Mountain. — Jan Smuts

I don't believe in God, I only believe in Al Pacino, and that's the truth. — Javier Bardem

Once you understand business models you can then start prototyping business models just like you prototype products. — Alexander Osterwalder

The same products, services or technologies can fail or succeed depending on the business model you choose. Exploring the possibilities is critical to finding a successful business model. Settling on first ideas risks the possibility of missing potential that can only be discovered by prototyping and testing different alternatives. — Alexander Osterwalder

There is an indissoluble union between a magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity. — George Washington

Every kindness we have done is a monument built in our name in the heart of God! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

You should do what you want, but I think you should also consider wanting something different. — Amy Dickinson