#bus

If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on. ↗

— Sheryl Sandberg

#inspirational #leadership #lean-in #motivational #risk-taking

Worry is like a rocking chair-it keeps you busy but gets you nowhere. ↗

— Katie Dale

#wasting-time #worry #business

Should I have taken him by the hand and led him over to the Zappa? No. I won't spoon-feed the customers. If you don't know your alphabet, you have no business leaving your house, let alone shopping for premium music. ↗

— Yvonne Prinz

#common-sense #music #princess #vinyl #business

Apparently, sir you Chinese are far ahead of us in every respect, except that you don’t have entrepreneurs. And our nation, though it has no drinking water, electricity, sewage system, public transportation, sense of hygiene, discipline, courtesy, or punctuality, ‘’does’’ have entrepreneurs. Thousands and thousands of them. Especially in the field of technology. And these entrepreneurs—"we" entrepreneurs—have set up all these outsourcing companies that virtually run America now. ↗

— Aravind Adiga

#china #india #business

In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women. If a married couple come to settle in the town, somehow the gentleman disappears; he is either fairly frightened to death by being the only man in the Cranford parties, or he is accounted for by being with his regiment, his hip, or closely engaged in business all the week in the great neighbouring commercial town of Drumble, distant only twenty miles on a railroad. In short, whatever does become of the gentlemen, they are not at Cranford. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#humor #literature #men #ownership #people

Sooner or later you'll hear what your heart has always been telling you: stop trying to be who you think you should be - become who you are. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#self-realization #business

It was the list of activities thing. Like the menu with price, only I'm not the restaurant; I'm the meal. ↗

— Damon Suede

#porn-business #business

Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise. ↗

— Lin Yutang

#chinese-philosopher #philosophy #philosophy-of-life #wise #business

Getting to this point hasn't always been easy; it took me years to really learn to silence my mind. But as you move through your career and your life, you will have to learn that if you're not what you do, then what you do has no business keeping you entertained at night. ↗

— Kelly Cutrone

#life #mind #business

You about done?” I asked him. “I need the table.” “What is it with you people?” Butters groused. “For God’s sake, these are real injuries here.” “There will be more of them than a thousand reluctant physicians could patch up if we don’t get moving,” I said. “Today’s serious business, man.” “How serious?” “Can’t think when it’s been grimmer,” I said. “Freaking waste-of-space vampires, lying around on tables you need to use.” “Useless wizards,” Thomas said, “jumping on enemy guns and accidentally shooting their allies with them.” “Oh,” I said. “That was when I jumped Ace?” He snorted. “Yeah. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#business