#ate

... all too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own. [2002] p.46 ↗

— Gary Hamel

#creativity #strategy #business

It seems that the young woman made some indelicate suggestion of a threesome...When I got there, Miss Nash was standing by the hot tub in a small bikini, pointing the business end of a SIG-Sauer P-226 at her fella and concerned members of the hotel staff, while dunking the scantily clad female's head under the water and asking, "Who's diving for clams now, bitch?. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#kate-daniels #raphael #business

If you start a chocolate company, you can't compete with Cadbury in the first ten years because they are a big company. ↗

— Tamim Iqbal

#business #cadbury #chocolate #competition #cricket

All I had done was to improve on their strategy, and it was the beginning of a very important lesson in life - that anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business - you know they're doing something that you aren't. ↗

— Malcolm X

#business-advice #strategy #business

In my opinion, actual heroism, like actual love, is a messy, painful, vulnerable business—and I wanted to try to reflect that. ↗

— John Green

#green #hero #heroism #john #waters

The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone. ↗

— Carson McCullers

#demonstrate #freedom #liberty #reason #change

So as a seventh grader, no, you weren't friends with people you didn't like. But sometimes you also weren't friends with people you did like, which was complicated, and which didn't make any sense if you tried to explain it. Sometimes things just changed. That's where the sadness came in. ↗

— Lauren Myracle

#complicated #friends #like #sadness #seventh-grade

When we play an unaccompanied Bach suite we may compare ourselves to an actor in Shakespeare's day, creating scenery which did not exist at all, through the power of declamation and suggestion. So in Bach. There is but one voice -- and many voices have to be suggested. ↗

— Pablo Casals

#music #theater #music

It would be perfect if everyone who makes love, is in love, but this is simply an unrealistic expectation. I'd say 75 percent of the population of people who make love, are not in love, this is simply the reality of the human race, and to be idealistic about this is to wait for the stars to aline and Jupiter to change color; for the Heavens to etch your names together in the sky before you make love to someone. But idealism is immaturity, and as a matter of fact, the stars may never aline, Jupiter may never change color, and the Heavens may never ever etch your names together in the sky for you to have the never-ending permission to make endless love to one another. And so the bottom line is, there really is no difference between doing something today, and doing something tomorrow, because today is what you have, and tomorrow may not turn out the way you expect it to. At the end of the day, sex is an animalistic, humanistic, passionate desire. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#humanism #humanistic #life #life-and-living #passionate

The key to happiness is to listen to campy Parisian music and smile at a bird. It hinges on insanity, but it works. ↗

— Erica Goros

#be-sane #be-silly #coping-strategies #joy #music