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Arie de Geus Quotes

The ability to learn faster than competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage.

The ability to learn faster than competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage.

Arie de Geus
Inspirational, Success, Sports
"Planning as Learning". hbr.org. March 1988.

A company's success no longer depends primarily on its ability to raise investment capital. Success depends on the ability of its people to learn together and produce new ideas.

Arie de Geus
Ideas, People, Together
"Arie de Geus: The Thought Leader Interview". Interview with S+B, www.strategy-business.com. April 1, 2001.

Companies die because their managers focus on the economic activity of producing goods and services, and they forget that their organizations' true nature is that of a community of humans.

Arie de Geus
Change, Organization, Focus
Arie de Geus (2002). “The Living Company”, p.3, Harvard Business Press

Once a company has adapted to a new environment, it is no longer the organization it used to be; it has evolved. That is the essence of learning.

Arie de Geus
Organization, Essence, Environment
"The Living Company: Growth, Learning and Longevity in Business". Book by Arie de Geus, 1999.

Since today's companies are totally dependent on a continuing human membership that produces a superior intellectual output in comparison to the competition, then there is inevitably a fight over the right to the bottom line.

Arie de Geus
Fighting, Competition, Intellectual
"Arie de Geus: The Thought Leader Interview". Interview with S+B, www.strategy-business.com. April 1, 2001.

I admit that one should never underestimate the capacity of banks to destroy enormous amounts of accumulated capital and reduce, temporarily, the supply. After all, capital is the accumulated savings of mankind. And banks are great masters in destroying enormous amounts of capital with great regularity.

Arie de Geus
Saving, Underestimate, Destroying
"Arie de Geus: The Thought Leader Interview". Interview with S+B, www.strategy-business.com. April 1, 2001.

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