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Because every exchange is always a relationship, to get the most while giving the least is unjust, unethical, antisocial, abusive, perhaps 'evil.' Yet predatory commerce ("the free market" as it is euphemistically called) operates regularly on the principle of 'get the most and pay the least. ↗

— James Hillman

#social-ethics #business

Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, “if my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating monster from beyond spacetime tomorrow, what is the worst thing they could do to me? ↗

— Charles Stross

#contract-law #contracts #publishing #worst-case-scenarios #business

You must be grounded to take flight. ↗

— Lorii Myers

#challenge #flight #golf #success #business

Female Chauvinist Pigs don't bother to question the criteria on which women are judged, they are too busy judging other women themselves ↗

— Ariel Levy

#business

Nothing is illegal so long as you correct it before the SEC catches it. ↗

— Ali Sheikh

#economy #law #sec #business

You see we do, yet see you but our hands And this the bleeding business they have done: Our hearts you see not; they are pitiful ↗

— William Shakespeare

#business

Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness. ↗

— John Cage

#curiosity #value #business

The watercolor people hadn’t moved, hadn’t seen us, were still busy being dead and artistic. Good. ↗

— Devon Monk

#business

I believe you have to write every day–make the time. It’s about having an organized mind instead of a chaotic and untidy one. There is a myth that writers are bohemian and do what they like in their own way. Real writers are the most organized people on the planet. You have to be. You’re doing the work and running your own business as well. It’s an incredibly organized state. [Also reading]…one of the things reading does do is discipline your mind. There are no writers who are not readers. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#online-interview #reading #writing #business

One might say that there is an "ethics barrier " a speed above which ethics can no longer exit. After that point the only remaining goal is to survive the immediate moment. ↗

— Pekka Himanen

#society #survival #business