#sine

I couldn't bring myself to ask Matka why they had taken him. She pretended that he'd gone away on business. I pretended I knew nothing. My brother and sister believed the lie. There were so many lies that we had to live with...and secrets. ↗

— F.C. Malby

#literary-fiction #business

No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#anxiety #busy-ness #business

it was very important business. Negotiations for a cease-fire between warring parties." David rolled his eyes. "You could just say makeup sex. ↗

— Dianne Sylvan

#deven #makeup-sex #business

View a Copycat as a Stray Cat.. They stray through the day hunting down prey. They pick up a scent through steel or cement. They act shy yet their sly. They get around traps, they escape with the bait. When you realize your loss and feel the hard cost without a peep nor a sign, they stand smiling across the finish line. ↗

— Victoria Addino

#beware #business-management-training #competitor #enemies-and-opposition #ideas-are-power

Justice will be found, said Plato, when everyone does their own job, and minds their own business ↗

— Martin Cohen

#business

Just as a fish doesn't know it is wet, so companies often can't see or feel the very opportunities where they are swimming ↗

— Pam Henderson

#growth #ideas #opportunity #trends #business

Your brand is the unique persona and identity of you, your company, product or service that sets it apart from others in the same market space. It is the image you or your business present to the world. A brand is composed of many different pieces which, together, capture the attention of your buyers. Some of the pieces are physical, but much of branding is intangible; ideas and thoughts put into words, pictures and videos. When small business owners ask themselves “What is branding?” the answer is, “the essence of the business, products or services.” Your personal brand conveys the way you are perceived; and how you want people to see and feel about you, your business and your products or services. You may want to sound very dignified and reinforce your ‘expert status’ and credibility depending on your products or services. Or you may want to sound approachable, edgy and smart. Whatever voice you choose, carry it into all your messaging, marketing materials, and web presence (your platform). ↗

— Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

#brand-identity #branding #kytka #your-brand #business

As for human contact, I'd lost all appetite for it. Mankind has, as you may have noticed, become very inventive about devising new ways for people to avoid talking to each other and I'd been taking full advantage of the most recent ones. I would always send a text message rather than speak to someone on the phone. Rather than meeting with any of my friends, I would post cheerful, ironically worded status updates on Facebook, to show them all what a busy life I was leading. And presumably people had been enjoying them, because I'd got more than seventy friends on Facebook now, most of them complete strangers. But actual, face-to-face, let's-meet-for-a-coffee-and-catch-up sort of contact? I seemed to have forgotten what that was all about. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#human-contact #business

Kings rise and fall, Dunk thought, and cows and smallfolk go about their business. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#george-r-r-martin #business

Riiiight,” you interrupt, “I was just checking to make sure that what me and my friend do was actually none of your goddamned business… ↗

— Hosho McCreesh

#msm #business