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- Nov 07, 2020
Critical Mass Quotes
Quotes on reaching the tipping point that changes everything.
These quotes use "critical mass" to describe the moment enough people, resources, or attention gather to create real change, whether in business scale, internet adoption, or academic reputation. It's a concept borrowed from physics that now shows up in everyday strategy talk. See related ideas in our Change quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- High-End
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- Nov 07, 2020
As soon as a critical mass of people in the world gained access to devices with high-end graphics and Internet connectivity, the rise of games like 'Fortnite' became inevitable.
- Mass
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- Nov 07, 2020
From Warren Buffett to Jamie Dimon to Paul Tudor Jones, no one has cracked the code and put a critical mass of top women in the C-Suite or near it.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
English language is the most universal language in history, way more than the Latin of Julius Caesar. It's the most punderful language because its vocabulary has a certain critical mass that makes a lingo good for punning.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the Karmabanque hasn't worked, it's because there isn't yet a critical mass of people who are prepared to fight back and who instead prefer to be victims.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
My original intent for investing into Sprint - the main strategy was to buy Sprint and T-Mobile at the same time, so we'd have a critical mass to fight against AT&T and Verizon. The U.S. government didn't accept that. They rejected it. So my fundamental strategy was broken.
- Economic Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who will keep seeding and building transforming movements.
- Presence
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- Nov 07, 2020
When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Lake of Dreams' grew gradually, over many years, elements and ideas accruing until they gained enough critical mass to become a novel.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's pretty challenging in a small country to develop a business school with a world-class reputation because of the problem of attracting a critical mass of top-class researchers.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
At a certain point, a critical mass of people either have used the Internet or have expectations. Anything less than the free flow of information will be seen as having something taken away. We've seen time and again - in Egypt and Iran, for example - that creates a backlash.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm friends with a lot of Brits, and they tell me when they're over here what a huge phenomenon 'The Wire' has become. Some things just attain critical mass after they're already dead and buried, and I don't know why it was the case with 'The Wire'.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The really interesting moment will be when you have a critical mass of people engaging through the networks, more than through the press and TV. When that happens, the culture of politics has to change, moving away from controlled one-way messages towards a political culture that is more questioning.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
Silicon Valley has evolved a critical mass of engineers and venture capitalists and all the support structure - the law firms, the real estate, all that - that are all actually geared toward being accepting of startups.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe we could think of science as being like a nuclear chain reaction in which people and ideas bounce off each other, and if critical mass is reached, a new field is formed.
- Enough People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The signs that the world is spinning out of kilter are increasingly difficult to misinterpret. The question is how to convince enough people to join a critical mass of urgent opinion, in the U.S. and the rest of the world.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fashioned by a critical mass of opinion, the slow pace of change we're used to will no longer be the norm. I see a lot of signs every day that we're moving closer and closer to that tipping point.
- Better Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020