#ra

Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force you to accept a rate of return less than you hoped for, or for that matter to accept temporary losses. ↗

— Alfred P. Sloan

#competition #competitive #final #force #hoped

The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality- and in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#life #mortality #age

The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. ↗

— H.P. Lovecraft

#lovecraft #age

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s jobs with yesterday’s tools! ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#motivation #age

Without desires and dreams, your thoughts do not matter and you can think whatever you want to. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money #motivational #new-age

If you can see yourself as an artist, and you can see that your life is your own creation, then why not create the most beautiful story for yourself? ↗

— Miguel Ruiz

#new-age #self-improvement #age

Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#inspirational #time #age

What are you doing here anyway?" "Here as in your bedroom, or here as in the great, spiritual question of our purpose on this planet? If you're asking whether it's all just a cosmic coincidence or there's a greater metaethical purpose to life, well, that's a puzzler for the ages. I mean, simple ontological reductionism is clearly a fallacious arguement, but – ” “I'm going back to bed. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-bones #clary-fray #jace-wayland #age

I have my own theory: ignorance is bliss. The less you know, the more confident you can be in tackling things. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#cosmic-ordering #law-of-attraction #mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money

Every sunrise is priceless and you can experience the richness that life holds only when you live life to the full instead of just being an onlooker. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money #motivational #new-age