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If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, both are useless. ↗

— Darryl F. Zanuck

#business #jobs #teamwork #work #business

Dying isn’t as lucrative as it once was, especially since purple cloth has become so cheap. I’m switching to the business of death instead. I just got hired by the American Medical Association ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #business

I do not, as a rule, do encores. When I have finished playing, I have indeed finished playing. I have nothing left; there has been no reserve. ↗

— Bill Dixon

#encores #finished #i #i do #indeed

I loved getting my M. B. A., and I really enjoyed being an accountant and financial analyst before I quit my day job twenty-five years ago to write full time. I just liked writing more…plus, I knew even then that as a full-time writer, I'd get plenty of chances to do business-type stuff, while as an accountant, I probably wouldn't get a lot of opportunities to write about dragons. ↗

— Patricia C. Wrede

#business #dragons #writing #business

The best way to engage honestly with the marketplace via Twitter is to never use the words "engage," "honestly," or "marketplace. ↗

— Jeffrey Zeldman

#marketing #socialmedia #twitter #web #business

The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals. ↗

— Rensis Likert

#goals #greatness #loyalty #motivation #success

Please, God,' Ruth would pray, 'don't let me be competitive. Let me realize what a privilege it is to study. Let me remember that knowledge must be pursued for its own sake and please, please stop me wanting to beat Verena Plackett in the exams.' She prayed hard and she meant what she said. But God was busy that autumn as the International Brigade came back, defeated, from Spain, Hitler's bestialities increased, and sparrows everywhere continued to fall. ↗

— Eva Ibbotson

#philosophical #business

When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it. Then it happens we were in the detective business. Well, when one of your organization gets killed it's bad business to let the killer get away with it. It's bad all around-bad for that one organization, bad for every detective everywhere. Sam Spade ↗

— Dashiell Hammett

#business

He did not care for the lying at first. He hated it. Then later he had come to like it. It was part of being an insider but it was a very corrupting business. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#business

I've been doing a lot of thinking" "Uh-Oh, Thinking. That's a dangerous business! ↗

— Justin Somper

#jacoby #vampirates #business