The Lylo Files » quotations http://blog.lylo.co.uk Not very much at all, really Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:56:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Oh the irony http://blog.lylo.co.uk/2009/12/11/oh-the-irony/ http://blog.lylo.co.uk/2009/12/11/oh-the-irony/#comments Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:06:25 +0000 Olly http://blog.lylo.co.uk/?p=126

“The fact that I flew here [The World Business Summit on Climate Change] to sit on a panel for one and a half hours, then I’m flying straight back to the US, is an example of our commitment to environmental sustainability”

Indra Nooyi, CEO of PepsiCo, 2009

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“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”

Upton Sinclair – I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked (1935)

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Wherever something is wrong, something is too big.

Leopold Kohr, The Breakdown of Nations, 1957

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Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly

—Oscar Wilde

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If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse

—Henry Ford

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