#fit

Fitz: How bad is it? Nighteyes: Mind your own business. Fitz: You ARE my business. Nighteyes: Sharing pain doesn’t loosen it. Fitz: I’m not sure about THAT. ↗

— Robin Hobb

#nighteyes #sharing-pain #business

If we only have great companies, we will merely have a prosperous society, not a great one. Economic growth and power are the means, not the definition, of a great nation. ↗

— Jim Collins

#non-profit #society #business

He had been taught as a child that Urras was a festering mass of inequity, iniquity, and waste. But all the people he met, and all the people he saw, in the smallest country village, were well dressed, well fed, and contrary to his expectations, industrious. They did not stand about sullenly waiting to be ordered to do things. Just like Anaresti, they were simply busy getting things done. It puzzled him. He had assumed that if you removed a human being's natural incentive to work -- his initiative, his spontaneous creative energy -- and replaced it with external motivation and coercion, he would become a lazy and careless worker. But no careless workers kept those lovely farmlands, or made the superb cars and comfortable trains. The lure and compulsion of profit was evidently a much more effective replacement of the natural initiative than he had been led to believe. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#inequity #iniquity #initiative #profit #business

A small profit it better than a big loss ↗

— Ron Rash

#choices #life #loss #profit #business

Profit is a by-product of success, focus on success not on profit. ↗

— Firoz Thairinil

#profit #success #business

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more. Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, and promote the general welfare. Taxes protect property and the environment; taxes make business possible. Taxes pay for roads and schools and bridges and police and teachers. Taxes pay for doctors and nursing homes and medicine. During an emergency, like an earthquake or a hurricane, taxes pay for rescue workers, shelters, and services. For people whose lives are devastated by other kinds of disaster, like the disaster of poverty, taxes pay, even, for food. ↗

— Jill Lepore

#business #common-defense #disasters #domestic-tranquility #emergencies

I see dead Presidents. Lincoln, Jefferson, Franklin, and Washington. ↗

— Nicole Fende

#profit #small-business #business

After a few months of talking with people and observing them, I realized that the traits of the successful fitness enthusiasts had everything in common with those of the high achievers I had spent years studying in business. ↗

— Chalene Johnson

#diet #fitness #goals #lifestyle #success

Keep in mind that people change, but the past doesn't. ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#hush-hush #nora #patch #change

It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#evolution #survival #survival-of-the-fittest #change