#ship

The true start-up of a business is what happens before you start-up. ↗

— Michael E. Gerber

#entrepreneurship #inspirational #business

The bottom line is down where it belongs - at the bottom. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#green-business #social-entrepreneurship #business

The most efficient route that nature has found from point A to point B is rarely a straight line. It is always the path of least resistance. ↗

— Marcus Buckingham Curt Coffman

#leadership #life #business

...we are to be lights in the world. It is God's business to light us, to set us on the lampstand, and to bring the people into the house. Our only duty is to shine forth with the gospel. ↗

— Marva J. Dawn

#theology #worship #business

Mom has the Touch. She knows what flowers go with what occasions, what hors d'oeuvres work with what people. She believes passionately in the power of food to heal, restore, and stimulate relationships, and she has built a following of loyal customers who really hope she's right. If she's wrong, says Sonia, no one wants to know. (Thwonk) ↗

— Joan Bauer

#belief #business #catering #food #humor

Single Ladies Tip: No man is too busy to go after a woman that he really wants, he will make time even if it is 2 minutes. #NoMoreCrumbs ↗

— Samantha Gregory

#truth #business

The best way to kill competition is to partner it ↗

— Siddharth Joshi

#competition #inspirational #leadership #business

Without growth, organizations struggle to add talented people. Without talented people, organizations struggle to grow. ↗

— Ray Attiyah

#leadership #business

Vasco bought a bottle of vodka to celebrate and they drank it in the old sailors' graveyard in Mangrove South. This was where the funeral business had first put down its roots. Over the wall, between two warehouses, Jed could just make out the Witch's Fingers, four long talons of sand that lay in the mouth of the river. Rumour had it that, on stormy nights a century ago, they used to reach out, gouge holes in passing ships, and drag them down. Hundreds of wrecks lay buried in that glistening silt. The city's black heart had beaten strongly even then. There was one funeral director, supposedly, who used to put lamps out on the Fingers and lure ships to their doom. ↗

— Rupert Thomson

#doomeded #lamps #ship #witch-s-fingers #wrecks

I am old, Gandalf. I don't look it, but I am beginning to feel it in my heart of hearts. Well-preserved indeed! Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread. That can't be right. I need a change, or something. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#bilbo-baggins #fellowship-of-the-ring #gandalf #tired #tiredness