#culture

No single imagination is wild or crass or cheesy enough to compete with the collective mindlessness that propels our fascination forward. ↗

— Karen Tei Yamashita

#imagination

Culture uses art to dream the deaths of beautiful women. ↗

— Elisabeth Bronfen

#beautiful #culture #death #women #art

If every day at work feels like a Friday, then you are doing what you were meant to do. ↗

— Alan W. Kennedy

#corporate-culture #risk #strategic-planning #strategy #values

People will typically be more enthusiastic where they feel a sense of belonging and see themselves as part of a community than they will in a workplace in which each person is left to his own devices ↗

— Alfie Kohn

#community #business

I'm a Marketer, I don't believe in Brands , but I believe in Quality and quality has different definitions ↗

— ياسمين يوسف

#branding #business #business-culture #marketing #quality

Never Underestimate. Just as in any other negotiation, watching before acting is as important as listening before speaking. It's doubly important in China, however, where customs are time-honored and breaches of protocol not so quickly forgiven. ↗

— Irl M. Davis

#business #business-culture #china #china-culture #global

Enron was becoming a virtual cult of creativity, often placing swagger over substance. New ideas were celebrated for their newness, for their potential; tried and true businesses like the pipelines were almost derided. ↗

— Kurt Eichenwald

#business

Excuse me, Ben," Bowen said. "Am I wrong, or aren't you the corporate treasurer?" Glisan bristled. "Yes." "What do you mean, you think you can get one?" Bowen shot back. "This is the current fucking maturities schedule! Go get it. You have to have a maturities schedule!" But they didn't. With all the focus on deals and earnings- with finance group's transformation into a profit center rather than a division to support the business- the workday, boring details had been sloughed off. p. 560 ↗

— Kurt Eichenwald

#business

When it comes to dressing well, American culture is so self-fulfilled that it has not only disregarded this courtesy of self-presentation, but has turned that disregard into a virtue. "We are too superior/busy/cool/not-uptight to bother about how we look to other people, and so we can wear pajamas to school and underwear to the mall. ↗

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#business

But show business has always been like that - any kind of show business. If these people didn't live intense and rather disordered lives, if their emotions didn't ride them too hard—well, they wouldn't be able to catch those emotions in flight and imprint them on a few feet of celluloid or project them across the footlights. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#mystery-novels #thriller #business