A Quote by Frans van Houten

Sometimes that Dutch consensus approach doesn't move you forward fast enough.

Frans van Houten

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Frans van Houten
Dutch - Businessman
Born: April 26, 1960

Walking was not fast enough, so we ran. Running was not fast enough, so we galloped. Galloping was not fast enough, so we sailed. Sailing was not fast enough, so we rolled merrily along on long metal tracks. Long metal tracks were not fast enough, so we drove. Driving was not fast enough, so we flew. Flying isn't fast enough for us. We want to get there faster. Get where? Wherever we are not. But a human soul can only go as fast as a man can walk, they used to say. In that case, where are all the souls? Left behind.

Margaret Atwood

Entrepreneurs make fast decisions and move forward knowing that at best 70% of their decisions are going to be right. They move the ball forward every day. They are quick to spot their mistakes and correct.

Mark Suster

We ought to be able to talk about ideas, we ought to be able to debate ideas because that's how you get to consensus and that's how you move this country forward and that's how you move this state forward. We do a better job of it in Iowa. We do.

Kim Reynolds

Struggles only move forward when decent men and women step forward and say, 'enough is enough and no more.'

Kumi Naidoo

It's impossible to always move forward, but sometimes even maintaining the status quo is enough.

Michael Laudrup

It is true that we need a consensus to go forward with restoring passenger rail in America, and often a consensus is formed by political action, via government. That is all true. But we have no such consensus, and no one in government or politics these days has the will or the force of personality or perhaps even the understanding of the situation to get on with job of forming a consensus supporting rail.

James Howard Kunstler

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

Mark Zuckerberg

Finally, I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. Nobody says the consensus of scientists agrees that E=mc2. Nobody says the consensus is that the sun is 93 million miles away. It would never occur to anyone to speak that way.

Michael Crichton

I am not a consensus politician... This is something that is really very un-Dutch.

Geert Wilders

Get your idea out there as fast as possible even if it’s not quite ready by setting must-hit deadlines. Let the market tell you if you have a winner or not. If not – move on and fail forward fast! If it’s got potential – then you can make it better.

Yanik Silver

Without a clear diagnosis of why the candidate or party failed, there can be no clear consensus about how to move forward.

Kristen Soltis Anderson

A monopoly is like running on firm ground. Nothing compels you to move, but if you do, you move forward. The faster you run, the more scenery you see - so you have some incentive to run fast.

Raghuram Rajan

No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Amar Bose

Sometimes clients have a sophisticated view of their design problem, sometimes they do not. I often spend time with the client redefining the problem, going back to the beginning. Often the problem is just a symptom. Sometimes you have to move back in order to move forward to understand what the nature of the solution should be.

Saul Bass

I move things forward fast. Just love speed.

Robin S. Sharma

Sometimes I feel frustration at the bureaucracy for not moving fast enough to deliver in the way that I would prefer. But that is probably because I have worked for many years in the civil society, which tends to move much faster than government.

Wangari Maathai

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