#bus

Bricks could take the place of corporate CEOs. They have about the same level of thinking, but bricks are far more ethical than most CEOs. ↗

— Amy Summers

#brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #business #ceos

Blankets have been used by companies for years for enterprise risk management because it is much easier to cover up problems than it is to identify and fix them. ↗

— Amy Summers

#brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #business #enterprise-risk-management

You can use a brick and blanket to create a brick-to-blanket ratio. With the brick-to-blanket ratio you divide the market value of a brick to the book value of a blanket, and you come up with a meaningless ratio that allows you to “evaluate” a company, it’s similar to the market-to-book ratio. ↗

— Amy Summers

#brick-and-blanket-iq-test #brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #business

А вот на подходе уже, если хотите знать, дяденьки, специальные пишущие машинки, пока еще только для нас, прозаиков. На этих машинках установлены электронные цензурные ограничители. Представляете? Печатаешь ты двумя пальцами «жопа», а на бумаге выходит: «окорока», «пятая точка», «афедрон» и уж в самом крайнем случае «ж» с тремя точками. ↗

— Arkady Strugatsky

#funny #funny

When you’re busy, avoid taking the quickest action. Instead make the extra effort to truly serve the customer. ↗

— Marilyn Suttle

#customer-service #inspirational #self-improvement #success #business

James “Knockout Jimmy” O’Brien, Granite Fall’s very own boxing legend—a title he held until a young groupie poked holes in the condom she made him wear “for protection.” My brother was born nine months later, fists already swinging. ↗

— Kate Avelynn

#issues #new-adult #young-adult #new-adult

But money spent while manic doesn't fit into the Internal Revenue Service concept of medical expense or business loss. So after mania, when most depressed, you're given excellent reason to be even more so. ↗

— Kay Redfield Jamison

#humor #mania #manic #mental-illness #psychology

What people in the world think of you is really none of your business. ↗

— Martha Graham

#perception #perspective #business

I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr. ↗

— John Green

#characters #humor #business

Just a reminder, what other people think of you is none of your business. ↗

— Ze Frank

#privacy #quip #business