“One thing I believe in is that knowledge increases when you share.”
“Every dream begins with a dreamer.”
“Starting a business is not as complicated as you may think, but keeping it running is.”
“Even though change is an important part of growth, we still face a hard time liking it. We try to resist it for as long as we can before giving up. Not just in our personal lives, but even in our professional lives”
“Most of the time, you’ll concentrate just on your website but when you take your focus off of it, you’ll realize that there’s more to a business than that.”
“When the customers, just like the business owner, fail to see why they should buy this and not that, a business will collapse.”
“You’re not in the business because you want to create value for yourselves.”
“A business becomes successful when it becomes mutually beneficial for you and your customers.”
“None of my enemies in business come close to the awesomely awful power of government. When this assembly of losers choreographs their bureaucratic ballet, it generates a whirling blackhole that sucks harder than a discount hooker trying to catch up on late payments to a loanshark.”
“Wealth is a person’s ability to survive a certain number of days forward.”
“Vstim said to always read contracts with friends an extra time,” Rysn said softly. “That’s it?” “I asked him, on another occasion, to explain. He said, ‘Rysn, being cheated is a terrible feeling. Being cheated by someone you love is worse. Discovering such a deception is like finding yourself in a deep dark ocean with nothing around you but formless shadows of things you once thought you understood and enjoyed. It is painful beyond explanation. But that is never a reason to pretend it can’t happen. So read those contracts again. Just in case.”
“On game shows, they should make the poor people who are competing or begging for money live in a Super-Max prison for the whole season. There s a show I would watch.”
“Think of yourself as a seed, and a company culture is the soil. You won t grow in just any soil. Some soil is made for you, some isn t. And good companies are very much aware of what seed they re planting if they want to see the fruits one day.”
“MARKETING is not just a department, It is a CULTURE”
“At the root of every excuse is fear. As Wayne Dyer points out in his book Excuses Begone!, there are really only two emotions: fear and love. Here s how I see it: If we were coming from a place of love - for ourselves, for others, for our purpose, for our existence as a representation of the divine - then there would be no place for excuses (that is, fear). The excuses are simply a way to put a label on fear.”
“Thus every individual category is subject to contamination, substitution is possible between any sphere and any other: there is a total confusion of types. Sex is no longer located in sex itself, but elsewhere - everywhere else, in fact. Politics is no longer restricted to the political sphere, but infects every sphere economics, science, art, sport ... Sport itself, meanwhile, is no longer located in sport as such, but instead in business, in sex, in politics, in the general style of performance. All these domains are affected by sport s criteria of excellence , effort and record-breaking, as by its childish notion of self-transcendence. Each category thus passes through a phase transition during which its essence is diluted in homeopathic doses, infinitesimal relative to the total solution, until it finally disappears, leaving a trace so small as to be indiscernible, like the memory of water .”
“It is character, not numbers, that make the world go ‘round.”