Ichak Adizes quote

A quote from author Ichak Adizes about over-anxious entrepreneurs.

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"There's a stage of the business life cycle I call the go-go phase, when a company really takes off. The founder starts believing that everything he touches will turn to gold. He diversifies from shoes into shopping centers and electronics. He's like a child who begins to walk and suddenly finds everything interesting. You have to follow him around saying, 'No! No! No! No! No!' "

-- Ichak Adizes, founder of the Adizes Institute and author of Corporate Life Cycles: How and Why Corporations Grow and Die and What to Do About It (Prentice-Hall, 1988), speaking at the ninth annual Inc. 500 Conference, in Albuquerque