#bus

And so many of the indies have partnered with Google to sell ebooks right from their own websites. These stores are embracing the “new technology” instead of hiding from it, because they realize it’s about the story, not the ink on paper. If you want ebooks, your local indie can sell you ebooks. If your local independent is hanging up posters saying that ebooks will kill everything, you should tag that bookstore as a favorite in your GPS doohickey. You’ll get great deals, because that store will have a going-out-of-business sale soon. Yes, even though you try to save it with a letter-writing campaign. ↗

— Steve Weddle

#business

What's Management up to?" I whispered to Bennett. "My guess is a new acronym," he whispered. "Departmental Unification Management Business." He wrote down the ltters on his legal pad. "D.U.M.B. ↗

— Connie Willis

#dumb #mnagement #business

Only in the first hour of the night can I become human, while the male dove is busy with the twelve dead.' --Black Book 2 ↗

— C.G. Jung

#business

I social network sono come l'aria. Li respiriamo e neanche ce ne rendiamo conto, visto quanto siano integrati nella nostra vita quotidiana. ↗

— Luca Conti

#social-network #business

As a business leader you have to ask yourself, “Am I creating a consumer environment that is conducive to loyalty?” If the answer is no, FIX IT! ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#consumer #leader #loyalty #business

Anyone who likes or hates Dana White should take a look at this. ↗

— June White

#business #fighting #international-business #mma #president-of-mma-company

Haji Ali taught me to...slow down and make building relationships as important as building projects. ↗

— Greg Mortenson

#social #business

In my day you got married and spent one holiday with one set of in-laws and another with the others. None of this bonding business. ↗

— Katherine Hall Page

#business

As long as you’re trying to be someone else, or putting on some act or behavior someone else taught you, you have no possibility of truly reaching people. The most valuable thing you have to give people is yourself. No matter what you think you’re selling, what you’re really offering is you.” (p.92) ↗

— Bob Burg and John David Mann

#reaching-people #selling #business

The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest— Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast. ↗

— William Wordsworth

#hope #poem #poetry #recollection #business