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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 71ddfda | The idea of using extraordinary force does not mean more of the same effort. Extraordinary action results from out-of-the-box thinking. | Gerald A. Michaelson | ||
| 1fd884f | The cry from every business failure is, "We ran out of money," but the real problem was probably one or more of the following: not enough managerial talent or operational skill, wrong products or services, or one of myriad other inadequate resources required to make the organization successful." | Gerald A. Michaelson | ||
| 6a9769b | Enterprise Rent-A-Car found a different point of entry into the same business. Originally a leasing company, it began an entry into rental cars when an enterprising manager at one of its offices began picking up customers for the start of their lease. No one else did that, and that became Enterprise's point of entry. | Gerald A. Michaelson | ||
| 7cf0731 | At Ogilvy & Mather, founder David Mather established the practice of sending each new branch head a nested set of wooden dolls--each doll opens to reveal a smaller replica of the doll. Inside the smallest is a message: "If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs; but if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, Ogilvy & Mather will become a company of giants."1" | Gerald A. Michaelson | ||
| 17ad39f | fqr bhtryn dwy mrD qnd st. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| d56e042 | It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself. | Gertrude Stein | ||
| 42ef6bf | Children and one's social inferiors never know when to say good-bye. One has to say it for them. | Agatha Christie | ||
| c10209e | What else will you have? Nice banana and bacon sandwich? | Agatha Christie | ||
| 25ec0a6 | What beats me -- it always does -- is how a man can be so clever and yet be such a perfect fool. | Agatha Christie | ||
| f61651a | I was starting to realize the extent of the problem here: everyone is always lying to each other, and even when they're trying to tell the truth, it can still be misleading or wrong. In fact, it almost always is wrong from at least one angle. I mean, in a way, the truth is really just a better class of lie. | Frank Portman | ||
| 1d4b98f | When I dream of how it would be if I were suddenly transformed into the kind of guy that does not repulse the females of our species, I don't necessarily think of any particular girl. Pick | Frank Portman | ||
| c4f8d89 | And believe me, you don't want to be around Migraine Mom. I strongly recommend avoiding that subject. | Frank Portman | ||
| 66f998f | What he meant was that he had fixed some vegetarian slop with lentils and bean-curd lumps and weird-tasting fake cheese, and that we were welcome to have a crack at choking some of it down. So Sam Hellerman hightailed it out of there. Lucky bastard. | Frank Portman | ||
| cb74b8f | Now, if this were a murder mystery, and I were a weird Belgian guy with a big mustache, this is the point where I would suddenly stop dead, drop my tiny glass of chocolate liqueur, and say something like "But no! But I have been an imbecile! Imbecile!" And then you'd have to wait another fifty pages or so to find out exactly what the hell I had been talking about. But I won't do that to you. The salutation" | Frank Portman | ||
| 78dc2b7 | I'm a very spiritual person," she likes to say, for instance. Like when she's explaining how she hates religion and all those who practice it. Well, okay, if it makes you feel better, Carol." | Frank Portman | ||
| c4202ff | The guy who wrote The Doors of Perception got off way easier, though, especially since the worst band in the history of the world, the Doors, named themselves after it. He has a lot to answer for. | Frank Portman | ||
| 2a1cf39 | My attention was temporarily thrown off course, because of the possibly decent band name. Hot Underwear: Jesus the Thong Burglar on guitar and vox, Hellerman Schmellerman on bass and vox, "Phil Rudd" on drums, first album Wet and Loaded. The album cover possibilities alone would ... But I digress." | Frank Portman | ||
| a04f193 | He was probably a Sagittarius, like Rosalie herself, born with a quiver of arrows, and a license to be an asshole. | Frank Portman | ||
| 017aeec | HIGH SCHOOL IS THE PENALTY FOR TRANSGRESSIONS YET TO BE SPECIFIED | Frank Portman | ||
| b2a278a | I mean, everything beats me, even twos and threes. | Frank Portman | ||
| 2a2c315 | The entire second-period sophomore girls' PE class thought my balls were uniquely and supremely beneath contempt. Great. | Frank Portman | ||
| ce27e7c | You start by allowing your own world to be corrupted by their warped values, and then you gradually start using their sadistic methods and eventually end up adopting bits of their sick ideology. And even then, when you have become just like them, they will eventually turn on you anyway. Normal people are savage beasts. | Frank Portman | ||
| 9ecdf45 | I have a certain experience of the way people tell lies. | Agatha Christie | ||
| f0ed6cc | Harold Waring, like many other Englishmen, was a bad linguist. | Agatha Christie | ||
| f42cc1e | It is the misfortune of small, precise men always to hanker after large and flamboyant women. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 56dc46a | At the trial in March 1952, Turing pled guilty, though he made clear he felt no remorse. Max Newman appeared as a character witness. Convicted and stripped of his security clearance,VI Turing was offered a choice: imprisonment or probation contingent on receiving hormone treatments via injections of a synthetic estrogen designed to curb his sexual desires, as if he were a chemically controlled machine. He chose the latter, which he endured .. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| d0ab5ee | AMELIO. Became CEO of Apple in 1996, bought NeXT, bringing Jobs back. BILL ATKINSON. Early Apple employee, developed graphics for the Macintosh. CHRISANN BRENNAN. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 75435ef | think they can change the world are the ones who do. --Apple's "Think" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 9d58fe3 | The company began attracting influential new investors. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| b7adc4d | lens and making a camera. "I learned more from her than any other" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 30401de | Over two centuries ago Adam Smith observed that individual freedom of choice ensures the most efficient production and distribution of society's goods. A competitive market, unhindered by the government and filled with entrepreneurs eager to pinpoint consumers' needs and desires, will be exquisitely responsive to them. | Barry Schwartz | ||
| 520b737 | Barry Schwartz told me: "Good enough is almost always good enough." | Eric Barker | ||
| b6bf132 | But if money doesn't do it for people, what does? What seems to be the most important factor in providing happiness is close social relations. People who are married, who have good friends and who are close to their families are happier than those who are not. Being connected to other seems to be much more important to subjective well-being than being rich. | Barry Schwartz | ||
| 8cd2e1d | Americans spent about $27 billion on nontraditional remedies, most of them unproven. | Barry Schwartz | ||
| 6de3a2f | And once people are in the position to be able to work at any time from any place, they face decisions every minute of every day about whether or not to be working. | Barry Schwartz | ||
| e3d09c4 | CHOOSING WELL IS DIFFICULT, AND MOST DECISIONS HAVE SEVERAL different dimensions. | Barry Schwartz | ||
| 3445a70 | The ideal legal system, mused Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo, "would be a code at once so flexible and so minute, as to supply in advance for every conceivable situation the just and fitting rule." | Barry Schwartz | ||
| b10d104 | If society asks more of us, and arranges its social institutions appropriately, it will get more. | Barry Schwartz | ||
| 8132149 | I think that in modern America, we have far too many options for breakfast cereal and not enough options for president. | Barry Schwartz | ||
| ad82186 | As the number of choices grows further, the negatives escalate until we become overloaded. At this point, choice no longer liberates, but debilitates. It might even be said to tyrannize, | Barry Schwartz | ||
| 7990801 | Most good decisions will involve these steps: 1. Figure out your goal or goals. 2. Evaluate the importance of each goal. 3. Array the options. 4. Evaluate how likely each of the options is to meet your goals. 5. Pick the winning option. 6. Later use the consequences of your choice to modify your goals, the importance you assign to them, and the way you evaluate future possibilities. | Barry Schwartz | ||
| ffb0884 | The very wealth of options before us may turn us from choosers into pickers. A chooser is someone who thinks actively about the possibilities before making a decision. A chooser reflects on what's important to him or her in life, what's important about this particular decision, and what the short- and long-range consequences of the decision may be. A chooser makes decisions in a way that reflects awareness of what a given choice means about.. | Barry Schwartz | ||
| 304ce3b | Every choice we make is a testament to our autonomy, to our sense of self-determination. Almost every social, moral, or political philosopher in the Western tradition since Plato has placed a premium on such autonomy. And each new expansion of choice gives us another opportunity to assert our autonomy, and this display our character. | Barry Schwartz | ||
| 9931bc4 | Having the opportunity to choose is no blessing if we feel we do not have the wherewithal to choose wisely. | Barry Schwartz |