Ivory Quotes - Page 7

• Strategy should evolve out of the mud of the marketplace, not in the antiseptic environment of an ivory tower.

  Al Ries

  Ivory Tower, Towers, Mud

  Al Ries, Jack Trout (2006). “Marketing Warfare: 20th Anniversary Edition: Authors' Annotated Edition”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• We look down on our scientists if they engage in outside consultation. We implicitly promote the ivory tower.

  Vikram Sarabhai

  Ivory Tower, Towers, Looks

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• She was white, perhaps too white. Her eyes, which were almost always cast down, when she raised them testified to the purest of souls, and when she smiled, revealing her small, white teeth, one might be tempted to say that a rose is merely a plant, and ivory just an elephant's tusk.

  Jose Rizal

  Eye, Elephants, White

  Jose Rizal (2006). “Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not)”, p.49, Penguin

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• In my view, nobody is really effective in tackling those organized crime networks that are making connections from Africa to Asia to fund and facilitate the poaching of massive volumes of ivory, and then selling it on the Asian market. Very few people have tried globally to tackle that serious organized crime threat that is also linked to militia groups. That needs to change. You need to bring the full weight of government attention to dealing with that.

  Allen Crawford

  Government, Views, People

  "Crawford Allen. Senior Director. Traffic. World Wildlife Fund". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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