Sentences with phrase «making buggy whips»

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In a world where even the lowly buggy whip has moved into the online realm (seriously, Google it), Yellow Media, that provider of inexpensive booster seats also known as the Yellow Pages, has been buying up rival phone directories and figuring out ways to make its antiquated business model work by slowly, so slowly, moving its services online.

But just as if you don't need a buggy whip to start your car, you don't need an agent to sell a book, or a traditional publisher to make a living at fiction writing.

This argument only makes the buggy - whip analogy more self - evidently correct.

As Lawrence «Larry the Liquidator» Garfield, a corporate raider, said in the play Other People's Money about a firm going under that was run well but outmoded, «I'm sure the last buggy whip company made a damn good buggy whip.»

With climate change upon us, there are companies to invest in for the long - term that will profit from this unyielding global condition along with those to avoid that make «a damn good buggy whip» in a doomed sector.

There would be a LOT of «economic development» (making horse carriages and buggy whips, building horse barns, growing and shipping hay) that would result from such an edict.

Law Societies will need to change to allow innovation — and even promote and initiate it — in order to make legal services affordable, or they will become as irrelevant as the proverbial buggy - whip maker.