#sin

Oh, a mermaid's comb. Heavy stuff, but safe enough as long as you don't use it around water. Or a busy highway. You're not planning to lure any young men to their doom, are you?" How embarrassing! I shook my head, blushing. ↗

— Polly Shulman

#mermaid-magic #business

What makes for a good marriage isn't necessarily what makes for a good romantic relationship. Marriage isn't a passion-fest; it's a partnership formed to run a very small, mundane and often boring non-profit business. And I mean this in a good way. ↗

— Lori Gottlieb

#business

The pursuit of truth, not of facts, is the business of fiction. ↗

— Oakley Hall

#literature #philosophy #truth #business

Dennis, please. I don't know what-" "Shut the fuck up, and stop playing me for an idiot. And secondly, and more importantly, I've unearthed some disturbing information about you which I want to discuss in more detail before I fill you with holes. ↗

— Simon Kernick

#business

We have met the Devil of Information Overload and his impish underlings, the computer virus, the busy signal, the dead link, and the PowerPoint presentation. ↗

— James Gleick

#business

Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#goals #success #business

One third of managers are victims of "Information Fatigue Syndrome." 49 percent said they are unable to handle the vast amounts of information received. 33 percent of managers were suffering ill health as a direct result of information overload. 62 percent admitted their business and social relationships suffer. 66 percent reported tension with colleagues and diminished job satisfaction. 43 percent think that important decisions are delayed and their abilities to make decisions are affected as a result of having too much information. (Reuters's "Dying for Business" report) ↗

— Jeff Davidson

#business

People will typically be more enthusiastic where they feel a sense of belonging and see themselves as part of a community than they will in a workplace in which each person is left to his own devices ↗

— Alfie Kohn

#community #business

If, at the close of business each evening, I myself can understand what I've written, I feel the day hasn't been totally wasted. ↗

— S.J. Perelman

#business

Are you sure I can't mend a shirt or darn a sock for you in trade? Anything?" "You can quit your yammerin' and carry this table downstairs so I can get back to minding my own business instead of messing around in yours. ↗

— Karen Witemeyer

#gruffness #humour #business