Sentences with phrase «of buggy whip»

Imagine if the inventor of the buggy whip used his patent (acceleration motivator) to bar the invention of engine speed control for transport purposes?

Horses, though their general use preceded the death of the buggy whip by a bit, are still with us, or some of us, that is, and are bought, sold, trained, treated, and, sadly, mistreated, all events that can have legal ramifications.

For the last one, see the history of the Buggy Whip makers.

The chart on the previous page plots the market's price / record earnings going back to 1875, which, as you doubtless recall, was the last of the great years for stocks of buggy whip makers.

Reminds me of buggy whip manufacturers at the turn of the last century.

Smells of the buggy whip factory bad mouthing these new fangled noisy stinky automobiles, just a passing fad, everyone will soon go back to good old Dobbin.

Leaded gasoline will soon go the way of the buggy whip here.

It seemed as if Milton Friedman's idea was going the way of the buggy whip.

So valued, all businesses, from manufacturers of buggy whips to operators of cellular phones, become economic equals.

From the early 19th century, Westfield, MA has been a prominent center for industry, and it's still known as «Whip City» for its historic production of buggy whips.

Not exact matches

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.

Her judgments resemble those offered by buggy whip makers — «Get a Horse» — when cars first arrived or RCA Victor's evaluation of early pocket transistor radios.

They are holding buggy whips and are chasing those new - fangled automobiles down the road shouting «Get out of my world!

99 % of all agents are buggy whip manufactures who are trying to convince everyone who buys a car you need a whip to keep the engine going.

Whenever I say the first half of that line people assume I'm just repeating the Ford adage («if I'd asked people what they wanted they would have demanded buggy whips with glitter or something»).

Like the music industry, Blockbuster, milk men, buggy whips and enjoyable air travel, there was a lot of nostalgia in that room.

Guest Blogger Kenneth J. Thurber is an indie author of Big Wave Surfing and Do NOT Invent Buggy Whips.

And every time you think there is, just imagine a person sitting on the roof of a modern car with a buggy whip, trying to whip the car to start.

So agents are the buggy whip area of publishing, and I sure can't see much that will save most agents over the next decade or so.

I think you sound like a bunch of hysterical, buggy whip makers.

3) My industry studies produce a list of out of favor companies with better prospects than most — the challenge is to separate out the «buggy whip» industries, from those that are genuinely cheap.

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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.

Buggy whips became obsolete with the advent of the internal combustion engine.

In a landmark Harvard Business Review article, Theodore Levitt argued that if buggy whip makers had thought of themselves as being in the personal transportation business, as opposed to simply buggy whip makers, they may have adapted to and survived the automotive revolution.

I don't know how you can be a Legal Rebel if you still complete a timesheet — the buggy whip of the intellectual capital economy.

This company is a text book example of everything that is wrong with an unreguated insurance agency and the CEO should be buggy whipped!

Will the «full service» brokerage evolve with the times, or gradually fade away, like the buggy whip builders of old?

Retailers competing in the technology age are discovering that any notion of predictable, long - term growth is as obsolete as the buggy whip.