Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by James E. Burke

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American businessman James E. Burke.
Last updated on April 15, 2025.
James E. Burke

James E. Burke was an American man who was the CEO of Johnson & Johnson from 1976 to 1989, a company for which he worked forty years.

The key to why things change is the key to everything. — © James E. Burke
The key to why things change is the key to everything.
We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.
The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge. Provide you could pay and read, what was on the shelves in the new bookshops was yours for the taking. The speed with which printing presses and their operators fanned out across Europe is extraordinary. From the single Mainz press of 1457, it took only twenty-three years to establish presses in 110 towns: 50 in Italy, 30 in Germany, 9 in France, 8 in Spain, 8 in Holland, 4 in England, and so on.
The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge.
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