#stumble

Companies that grow for the sake of growth or that expand into areas outside their core business strategy often stumble. On the other hand, companies that build scale for the benefit of their customers and shareholders more often succeed over time. ↗

— Jamie Dimon

#benefit #build #business #companies #core

Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#came #down #end #get #goal

I stumbled into this business, I didn't train for it. I yelled 'Action!' on my first two movies before the camera was turned on. ↗

— John Hughes

#before #business #camera #first #i

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it. ↗

— George Byron

#creeps #ever #happens #like #out

Our incomes should be like our shoes; if too small, they will gall and pinch us; but if too large, they will cause us to stumble and to trip. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#gall #incomes #large #like #our

The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#class #defies #make #mind #out

We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#darkness #enlightened #even #fall #fallen

I'm trying to figure out the trick of working to live as opposed to living to work, but I don't know if I've quite stumbled upon it just yet. ↗

— Brittany Murphy

#i #just #know #live #living

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat. ↗

— Anais Nin

#defeat #endure #known #life #lose

When I got to 40 or so... I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions, a few of which I had thought about, some of which I had sort of stumbled on, and many that I had no control over whatsoever. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#actually #back #control #decisions #few