#bus

The effect of the weather on the inhabitants of Provence is immediate and obvious. They expect every day to be sunny, and their disposition suffers when it isn't. Rain they take as a personal affront, shaking their heads and commiserating with each other in the cafes, looking with profound suspicion at the sky as though a plague of locusts is about to descend, and picking their way with distaste through the puddles on the pavement. If anything worse than a rainy day should come along, such as this sub-zero snap, the result is startling: most the population disappears... But what did everyone else do? The earth was frozen, the vines were clipped and dormant, it was too cold to hunt. Had they all gone on holiday?...It was a puzzle, until we realized how many of the local people had their birthdays in September or October, and then a possible but unverifiable answer suggested itself: they were busy indoors making babies. There is a season for everything in Provence, and the first two months of the year must be devoted to procreation. We have never dared to ask. ↗

— Peter Mayle

#business

I have often had the impression that, to penguins, man is just another penguin -different, less predictable, occasionally violent, but tolerable company when he sits still and minds his own business. ↗

— Bernard Stonehouse

#business

Listen to your customers, not your competitors. ↗

— Joel Spolsky

#lean-startup #business

Happiness is the feeling we experience when we are too busy to be miserable. ↗

— Thomas L. Masson

#business

لا تنضم للمحادثات التي تتضمن ولو حتى لمحة من القيل والقال ↗

— Lani Arredondo

#business

Note to the wise: whenever someone insists that he wants to buy something from you, but tells you there’s no real value in it yet, two things are happening: he’s lying, and you’re being taken. ↗

— Mike Stackpole

#negotiation #publishing #scammers #business

This primary question of life organization is immensely important. If making money is the main goal, a person can often forget what his or her true interests are or how he or she wants to deserve recognition from others. It is much more difficult to add on other values to a life that started out with just making money in mind than it is to make some personally interesting endeavor financially possible or even profitable. ↗

— Pekka Himanen

#work #business

Repeat business or behavior can be bribed. Loyalty has to be earned. ↗

— Janet Robinson

#business

All business opportunities stem from someone else's inability to resolve a simple and inevitable problem. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#business

People must learn that the accumulation of wealth by the successful conduct of business is the corollary of the improvement of their own standard of living and vice versa. They must realize that bigness in business is not an evil, but both the cause and effect of the fact that they themselves enjoy all those amenities whose enjoyment is called the “American way of life. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

#politics #business