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People must learn that the accumulation of wealth by the successful conduct of business is the corollary of the improvement of their own standard of living and vice versa. They must realize that bigness in business is not an evil, but both the cause and effect of the fact that they themselves enjoy all those amenities whose enjoyment is called the “American way of life. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

#politics #business

My favourite game is Postal because it is so politically incorrect. ↗

— Uwe Boll

#favourite #game #incorrect #politically #politically incorrect

I think I'd better do the actual stealing," Hermione continued in a matter-of-fact tone. "You two will be expelled if you get into anymore trouble, and I've got a clean record. So all of you need to do is cause enough mayhem to keep Snape busy for five minutes or so. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#hermione #ronweasly #business

The biggest fool is one who minds the business of others rather than minding his very own ↗

— Amit Abraham

#foolishness #nose-poking #business

A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#like #poetry #should #takes #theology

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions. ↗

— Antony Jay

#creative #creative mind #mind #questions #spot

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

— June White

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

Declining overseas admissions costs us not only much needed revenues for colleges and universities, but much more importantly, we lose the best opportunity we have to introduce foreign students to all that America has to offer the world. ↗

— Richard Lugar

#best #colleges #costs #declining #foreign

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