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Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens. ↗

— William Beveridge

#among #citizens #cultivate #democracy #dictators

There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented. The common man, I think, is the great protection against war. ↗

— Ernest Bevin

#been #before #calmly #common #common man

Philately is normally a boys' hobby but for some reason it was in vogue at my junior school. Between the ages of eight and ten I collected avidly. I'd pore over my Stanley Gibbons book, obsessively checking my collection's value. I always hoped I'd stumble across a really valuable one, a Penny Black or an Inverted Jenny, but it wasn't to be. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#ages #always #avidly #between #black

We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#better #bit #customer #customers #day

I like having the digital camera on my smart phone, but I also like having a dedicated camera for when I want to take real pictures. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#camera #dedicated #digital #having #i

Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#correspondingly #directly #greater #higher #invested

On the Internet, companies are scale businesses, characterized by high fixed costs and relatively low variable costs. You can be two sizes: You can be big, or you can be small. It's very hard to be medium. A lot of medium-sized companies had the financing rug pulled out from under them before they could get big. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#big #businesses #characterized #companies #costs

The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#appliances #bulb #electricity #got #home

From coast to coast, the FBI and Securities and Exchange Commission have ensnared people not only at hedge funds, but at technology and pharmaceutical companies, consulting and law firms, government agencies, and even a major stock exchange. ↗

— Preet Bharara

#coast #commission #companies #consulting #even

I spoke bluntly about what I had seen in a little over a year as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. To the apparent surprise of many in the room, I observed publicly that insider trading appeared to be rampant. ↗

— Preet Bharara

#apparent #appeared #attorney #bluntly #district