Karl Albrecht Quotes

There are only two ways to establish competitive advantage: do things better than others or do them differently.

You seldom improve quality by cutting costs, but you can often cut costs by improving quality.

Start out with an ideal and end up with a deal.

Albrecht's Law - Intelligent people, when assembled into an organization, will tend toward collective stupidity.

Customer needs have an unsettling way of not staying satisfied for very long.

If the frontline people do count, you couldn't prove it by examining the reward systems in most organizations.

The Zen philosophy posits that 'human beings suffer' and 'the cause of suffering is desire.' The way to put an end to suffering is to stop wanting everything, all the time.

Old paradigms die hard, even if they don't work.

Televisions and movies have made many Americans into habitual consumers of synthetic experience-audiovisual fantasies that simply pass the time.