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D2C (Direct to Consumer)
Damaged goods is all I see. Hardened faces look back at me. Where are all the innocents-unscarred by the battle?
Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead! ( Farragut )
Damned in the midst of paradise
Dank, mi querido nieto, di velt shmeylz mit der! (Thank you, my loving grandson, the world smiles with you!)
Dare to dream out loud.
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
Darwinian chance rather than providential design determines what happens.
Das Rheingold: Beware! / For when you men / serve my might / the dwarf will take his pleasure / with your pretty women / who scorn his wooing / though love does not smile upon him.
Data are not facts.
Facts are not information.
Information is not knowledge.
Knowledge is not truth.
Truth is not wisdom.
Data beats opinion.
Data is here for you to make an informed decision, not to make the decision. Too many people want the data to take the responsibility away from them.
Data is like electricity. It illuminates.
Data is the oil of the digital age.
Data never die.
Data is not information, knowledge or wisdom.
Data overrules hierarchy.
Data-driven design narrows your attention to incremental improvements rather than quantum leaps. It makes you think you’re approaching an apex when there may be huge additional opportunities which lay beyond that point.
Deal with it
Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
Death ends a life, not a relationship.
Death is afraid of him because he has the heart of a lion.
Death is like painting rather than like sculpture, because it’s seen only from one side.
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. (Norman Cousins)
Decadence is deliberate cruelty.
Decency is a relative thing.
Deception is invariably practiced on the self before others.
Decide on what you think is right and stick to it.
Decide what you stand for. And then stand for it all the time. (Clay C)
Decision-making abilities fade as cash flow increases.
Decisions are a lot easier to make when you know what your values are.
Declare victory, then go to war.
Deep down, he’s very shallow.
Deep pockets don’t sue shallow ones.
Deeper analysis does not always lead to keener judgments.
Defeat is worse than death because you have to live with defeat.
Defeat snatched from the jaws of victory.
Defects that are invisible to the knowledgeable may be obvious to the newcomer.
Defining and asking the right question is often much harder than eventually finding the right answer.
Deformed by fantasy-mutilated by
reality.
Deja new
Delay only compounds mistakes.
Delight turns very quickly to
expectations.
Demand dictates supply, not the other way round.
Democrats fall in love. Republicans fall in line.
Democrats spend 99% of their time worrying about what they should say and only 1% figuring out how to get people to hear what they are saying.
Democracy doesn’t defend itself.
Democracy in meetings is not a value in itself.
Democracy is dependent on shared truths, and autocracy on shared lies.
Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but you ought to do it yourself.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. (Mencken)
Democracy itself depends on the ability of the people to discern truth from lies, fact from fiction. Propaganda has weakened that ability, and deepfakes threaten to all but destroy it.
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
Democracy needs a ground to stand upon, and that ground is the truth.
Democracy needs to be defended.
Democracies are based on shared truths, autocracies on shared lies. (Sasha B C)
Democracies are communities of common purpose.
Democracies don’t make great products. You need a competent tyrant.
Demographics
moving to psychographics.
Denial has no survival value.
Denial is an ineffective strategy.
Denying or deflecting a
compliment is rude. Accept it with thanks.
Depth is far more important than width in a world where width is infinite and noisy. (Gary V)
Depouille : French for “without ornament”
Depression: An awful drone of nullity.
Depression doesn't necessarily kill a person's sense of humor.
Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
Description is more valuable than metaphor.
Deserve’s got nothing to do with it
Design for the biggest impact.
Design helps focus on the gap between intent and effect (especially regarding technology).
Design helps leaders direct creativity.
Design helps simplify complexity and make things visible and transparent.
Design is an active verb, not a noun.
Design is an expression of hope.
Design isn’t about how things look; it’s about how well they work.
Design is hope made visible.
Design is not veneer, it is the fundamental soul of a creation.
Design is the ability to create something that has significance as well as usefulness.
Desolation is not the same thing as emptiness, because unlike emptiness, it can fill a space.
Despair gains its cachet by its uselessness.
Despair is the conclusion of fools.
Despair is not realism; it’s a lack of imagination.
Desperati
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it’s a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it’s a thing to be achieved.
Destiny, quite often, is a determined parent.
Detail is the difference between ordinary and extraordinary.
Deterrence is a simple equation: capability times will.
Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music-the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. (Henry Miller)
Devotion (depth), not diversion in musical theatre.
Die fast and quiet when they interrogate you or live so long that they are ashamed to hurt you anymore.
Difference between a mishap and a tragedy. If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a mishap. If anyone pulled him out, it would be a tragedy. (Disraeli)
Difference between cheese and chalk.
Difference between golf and government: in government, you can always improve your lie.
Different isn't always better, but better is always different.
Differentiate to succeed.
Differentiation avoids commoditization.
Difficulties break some men but make others. (Mandela)
Difficulties exist to be surmounted.
Dig your well before you're thirsty.
Digital changes everything, but human nature never changes.
Digital is like hydrochloric acid, it burns through everything.
Digital natives vs digital immigrants
Dijon vu – the same mustard as before.
Diplomacy is the art of keeping the enemy talking until your archers are in range.
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.
Direct marketing is measured; brand marketing rarely is.
Direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for youth.
Directors are like boxers. They need to know when to hang up the gloves.
Disasters do not simply occur; they evolve.
Discipline: 1. Do what has to be done
2.
When it has to be done
3.
As well as it can be done
4. Do it that way all the time
Discipline is a convenient way of avoiding an adjustment to rapidly changing circumstances.
Discipline is always worthwhile.
Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most. (A. Lincoln)
Discipline is just the job of choosing between what you want now and what you want most.
Discipline yourself.
Discipline yourself, and others won’t need to.
Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
Discounts train consumers to buy on price instead of brand.
Discoveries are happy accidents.
Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what no one else has thought.
Disinformation is about power, money and influence.
Disorganization is a kind of
anesthesia.
Disruption is often the soil that monsters
grow in.
Distance is dead.
Distance
would lend enchantment to the view.
Distress
is soil for growing businesses.
Distributed problems require distributed solutions.
Distributed work introduces friction for managers, and they have to learn to manage people as people and not manage by proximity.
Dive into the abyss headfirst.
Diversification neglects comparative advantage. Specialization is the best way to lower risk.
Do a few of the right things well.
Do a few things very well.
Do a limited number of things very well—not a mile wide and an inch deep.
Do I have to give up me to be loved by you?
Do I wait for time to do what it does?
Do it, fix it, learn.
Do it or not. There is no try. (Yoda)
Do it right the first time-do it very right the second time.
Do just once what others say you can't, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.
Do less better.
Do not become an archivist of facts. Try to penetrate to the secret of their occurrence, persistently search for the laws which govern them.
Do not become the slave of your model.
Do not expect justice where might is right.
Do not feel certain of anything.
Do not forget an old act of kindness because of a recent dispute.
Do not go gentle into that good night/Old age should burn and rave at close of day/Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Do not insult the mother alligator until you have crossed the river.
Do not keep away from the measure which has no limit, or from the task which has no end.
Do not let your fire go out, sparked by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, and lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours. (Ann Rand)
Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
Do not pack what you cannot carry.
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the masters; seek what they sought.
Do not spend your life seeking security and then wonder why you never found happiness.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
Do not throw up your hands when it is time to roll up your sleeves.
Do not understand me too quickly.
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.
Do not wait; the time will never be “just right”. Start where you stand and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.
Do not wish evil for your enemy, plan it.
Do one thing every day that scares
you. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
Do something unscalably laborious.
Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better. (Angelou)
Do the right things, with the right people, for the right reasons.
Do the work.
Do what’s easy and life is hard. Do what’s hard and life is easy.
Do what matters to you and someone else.
Do what you can.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. (Teddy R)
Do you believe in all this success? It's like wine. You don't believe in wine. You drink wine.
Do you know the difference between Borden and the other brands? About a dollar a gallon.
Do you love life? Then do not squander time. For time is the stuff life is made of.
Do you think you can fart your way out of it?
Do your
duty and leave the outcome to the gods.
Does anyone have any questions for my answers?
Does it better always beats did it first.
Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?
Dogs don’t bark at parked cars.
Dogs don’t need clothing – they come with coats called fur.
Dogs move through our culture as a kind of unresolved issue.
Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you're doing, but no one else does.
Doing the right things instead of doing things right.
Doing things is not the same as getting things done.
Doing well is not enough if you can
do better.
Dolchstosslegende = stab-in-the-back myth
Dollar bills are not the same as brain cells.
Done is better than perfect.
Don't aim to be the best. Be the only.
Don’t allow yourself to be defined by others’ limitations.
Don't argue with the truth.
Don’t ask me what I want to be when I grow up – Ask me how the world can be different and better and what I can do to make that happen.
Don’t ask directions from a tourist.
Don't ask questions of fairy tales.
Don’t ask questions you don’t want answers to.
Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive.
Don't avoid voiding.
Don’t bail away in a sinking boat if you can swim safely to one that’s seaworthy.
Don’t be a slave to your model.
Don’t be afraid of “No”, be excited for “Yes”.
Don’t be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try.
Don't be afraid to make mistakes. If you take a fall, it's because you're learning, and that's better than playing it safe. The name of the game is not to be right all the time. The name of the game is to win. There's a big difference.
Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led (drawn) by your dreams.
Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts.
Don’t be too proud to copy your
competitors’ best features and offerings.
Don’t be upset by the results you didn’t get with the work you didn’t do.
Don’t blame content. If you put a monkey in a car, it’s not the car’s fault.
Don’t blame the mirror for your ugly face.
Don’t borrow trouble from tomorrow when you’ve still got plenty from today.
Don’t cling to a mistake just because you spent a lot of time making it.
Don’t compare me to the Almighty, compare me to the alternative.
Don't confuse bad management with destiny.
Don’t confuse frequency with loyalty. You may have no choice but to use something.
Don’t confuse decisions as preference-based which really reflect practicality or lack of choice.
Don’t confuse the headlines with the trend lines.
Don’t confuse your oath with your income.
Don’t count on getting rich twice.
Don’t cry because it is over but smile because it happened.
Don't deprive yourself of the joy of giving.
Don’t develop anything that you don’t want to make, and don’t make anything that you can’t sell.
Don’t do it for someone else.
Don’t do things for your kids; do things with them.
Don’t eat yellow snow.
Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate
them to be happy. - So when they grow up they will know the value of things and
not their price.
Don't embarrass the bread.
Don't ever confuse good manners with agreement.
Don’t ever darken my toilet paper
again.
Don’t ever look up a recent
photo of your first great love.
Don’t ever permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure.
Don’t ever take down a fence until you know why it was put up.
Don’t ever take the hint. That’s the lazy man’s way out.
Don’t expect empathy from losers.
Don't expect others to listen to your advice and ignore your example.
Don't expect others to take as much interest in you as you do yourself.
Don’t fall in love with your model and forget your mission.
Don’t fake it until you make it. Fake it ‘til you become it.
Don’t feed the troll in blog space.
Don’t find customers for your products,
find products for your customers.
Don't find fault. Find a remedy.
Don't find fault. Find a solution.
Don’t force
the gates.
Don’t get comfortable.
Don’t get in front of a ball rolling down a hill.
Don’t get mad, don’t get even, get over it.
Don’t get out of the Trojan Horse before you’re inside the castle.
Don’t give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.
Don’t guess, ask.
Don't hold the penny so close to your eye that you can't see the dollar behind it.
Don't invest too much in a charismatic leader.
Don't it always seem to go / That you don't know what you've got till it's gone?
Don’t judge people by their relatives.
Don’t judge yourself by your past. You don’t live there anymore.
Don't jump off the bridge just
because your friends did.
Don’t just think it; ink it.
Don’t launch it and leave it.
Don't learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade.
Don’t leave
it to others.
Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
Don’t Let Great Get in the Way of Good Enough
Don’t let making a living prevent you from making a life.
Don't let aging get you down.
It's too hard to get back up. - John Wagner
Don’t let anyone talk you out of your future.
Don’t let what you can’t do interfere with what you can do.
Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today. (Will Rogers)
Don't let your opinion sway your judgment.
Don’t live with your mistakes.
Don’t look backward unless that’s the direction you’re headed.
Don’t look down, don’t look back.
Don’t look into your enemy’s eyes, lest you become your enemy.
Don’t look to me for the answers. All I want you to use me for is approval.
Don’t look to sell, look to engage.
Don’t major in the minors.
Don’t make ads. Make news.
Don’t make the menu longer, make it better instead.
Don’t measure how valuable you are by the way you are treated.
Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.
Don't mistake activity for achievement.
Don't mistake bad ideas for bad intentions.
Don’t mistake the means for the end. The sole value of any device is the use to which it is put.
Don’t nothin’ in life rewind except a tape deck.
Don’t pay attention to the critics—don’t even ignore them.
Don’t pee
on my leg and tell me it’s raining.
Don’t play
the rooster in front of the wrong house.
Don’t punish the wrong people.
Don’t put a period when God put a comma.
Don’t put down roots in bad soil.
Don’t rehearse for bad news.
Don’t run to a fight.
Don't say yes until I finish talking.
Don’t sell your soul to buy peanuts for the monkeys.
Don’t spend your time on things you can’t change. Spend it thinking about what you can.
Don’t start the fight, finish it.
Don’t stop believing.
Don’t tell me the good news—it takes care of itself—tell me the bad news.
Don’t think for a minute that power concedes.
Don't think of me as a monopoly; think of me as a company that enjoys 100% customer loyalty.
Don't think of me as your boss, but as a friend who's always right.
Don't threaten a child: either punish him or forgive him.
Don't throw away time on useless resentment or try to see who can hold out longest in stubbornness.
Don’t try
to bend a stubborn heart.
Don’t try to buy low. That’s like trying to catch a knife.
Don’t try to close too fast.
Don’t try to do something cheaply that shouldn’t be done at all.
Don’t try to figure out what your life is about. It’s too big a question. Just figure out what the next three years are about.
Don't try to get to heaven in one night.
Don’t try to make a product for everybody, because that is a product for nobody.
Don't try to make the right decisions; make the decisions right.
Don’t try to run someone else’s race.
Don't try to sell the skin of the bear until you have already gone out and killed it.
Don’t try to suck up or even be nice to your intellectual inferiors. They’ll only hate you more for it.
Don't use a plan as a major input to the decision-making process. Use it mainly to recognize change as it takes place.
Don’t view your career as a linear progression.
Don’t wait for success.
Don’t want to be with the “cool” people – want to be with your people.
Don't waste money, don't make bad karma, if life give you lemon tree, then piss on it every day and take shower!
Don’t waste the time I don’t have.
Don’t waste time trying to fix
things that won’t make a difference in the long run.
Don’t waste your energy on the ugly. Save it for the beautiful.
Don't watch the underclass. It's more likely that the warlords will kill you.
Don’t wear your heart on your sleeve.
Don’t wish it was easier; work to be better.
Don't worry, the next generation will understand you. The real challenge is to try to convince your peers.
Double the
experimentation equals twice the innovation.
Doubt is
unpleasant, but certainty is absurd. (Voltaire)
Doubt kills
more dreams than failure ever will.
Doubt of
whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
Doubting yourself after you take a risk may be the biggest danger of all.
DOXA – Things that people take for granted but which don’t necessarily have to be that way
“Drained-pool” politics — if “they” can also have it, then no one can. (Community swimming pools)
Drama often obscures the real issues.
Dramatic change often comes as a response to imminent collapse.
Dream in years, plan in months, evaluate in weeks, ship daily
Dreams are necessary to life.
Dreamer -> Doer
Dreamers never lie.
Dreams are necessary to life. (Anais Nin)
Dreams don’t work unless you do.
Dreams inform reality.
Dreams with deadlines.
Dress like a bourgeois; think like a revolutionary.
Drew inspiration from desperation.
Drinking water from a fire hose.
Drinking your own bath water.
Drive fast. You’re harder to hit.
Dry shit don’t smell until you kick it.
Dumb as a sack of hammers.
Dumb enough to start, smart enough to finish.
Dunbar Number: Maximum Number of Strong Relationships One Person Can Have (150 approx)
DWIM: Do What I Mean.
Dying happens to someone else,
until it doesn’t.