A Quote by Al Ries

Strategy should evolve out of the mud of the marketplace, not in the antiseptic environment of an ivory tower.

Al Ries

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Environment Evolve Ivory Ivory Tower Marketplace Mud Out Should Strategy Tower

Quote Author

Al Ries
American - Author
Born: November 14, 1926

I am an idealist. I often feel I would like to be an artist in an ivory tower. Yet it is imperative that I speak to people, so I must desert that ivory tower. To do this, I am a journalist - a photojournalist. But I am always torn between the attitude of the journalist, who is a recorder of facts, and the artist, who is often necessarily at odds with the facts. My principle concern is for honesty, above all honesty with myself.

W. Eugene Smith

The sort of the most efficient way for online dating marketplace to evolve and, in fact, any marketplace to evolve is to have one really big market where people can enter and exit as they please, where people have really advanced search, sort, and filtering technology.

Sam Yagan

You can't just hoard your ideas inside the ivory tower. You have to get them out into the world.

George M. Church

Jan built herself an ivory tower to keep the wolves out; she never dreamed they were already inside.

Mira Grant

I don't see myself in an ivory tower.

Jeff Buckley

We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, classical music will not survive the 21st century.

Daniel Barenboim

That's a big part of being a designer now: going out, having dinners, meeting people. Being in an ivory tower, you can feel very removed.

Joseph Altuzarra

I don't think we're out there aggressively looking for deals. Our strategy is that business follows the creative. We're not out there scouring the marketplace for opportunities.

Troy Carter

An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.

Walter Darby Bannard

The artist's life is to be where life is, active life, found in neither ivory tower nor concrete shelter; he must be out listening to everything, looking at everything, and thinking it all out afterward.