49 Quotes by John Naisbitt

We created the hierarchical, pyramidal, managerial system because we needed it to keep track of people and things people did; with the computer to keep track, we can restructure our institutions horizontally.

In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits.

In the network model, rewards come by empowering others, not by climbing over them. If you work in a hierarchy, you may not want to climb to its top.

In the Marines, I was stunned, absolutely stunned, at everything around me, at what the world looked like.

Value is what people are willing to pay for it.

We're very much in an evolutionary stage as people now. The globalization of our society is just amazing. It absolutely will lead to greater acceptance of others where the differences among us are less and less important.

The big-business mergers and the big-labour mergers have the appearance of dinosaurs mating.

Small business, right down to the individual can beat big, bureaucratic companies ten times out of ten.

Globalization is a bottom-up phenomenon with all actions initiated by milions of individuals, the sum total of which is globalization. No one is in charge, and no one can anticipate what the sum of all the individual initiatives will be before the result manifest. A global economy can only be the result of spontaneous order.