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Though the house itself was a fortress, still, Isaac Penn had thought to make sure that anyone who did manage to break in would be kept busy. Thus the vault was not a vault but rather a solid plug of molybdenum steel which extended into the wall for five feet. ↗

— Mark Helprin

#security-system #business

What state do you live in? Denial. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#humor #humor

But my heart is an old house (the kind my mother grew up in) hell to heat and cool and faulty in the wiring and though it’s nice to look at I have no business inviting lovers in. ↗

— Clementine von Radics

#business

Inaction is no longer acceptable. ↗

— Eric Lowitt

#inaction #sustainability #business

[On Obama Administration] "I've never heard any administration or any business or anybody ever claim incompetence more than this group of people, ↗

— Glenn Beck

#business

When it comes to dressing well, American culture is so self-fulfilled that it has not only disregarded this courtesy of self-presentation, but has turned that disregard into a virtue. "We are too superior/busy/cool/not-uptight to bother about how we look to other people, and so we can wear pajamas to school and underwear to the mall. ↗

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#business

Business is leisure when you find pleasure in it. ↗

— Peter Adejimi

#leisure #marketing #business

The only things that are a little bit newer are the CD burners, but we hid them under the table, so basically we had the feeling we were somewhere completely different, in another time. ↗

— Meg White

#another time #basically #bit #burners #cd

What I don't get about "traditional publishing" is that an author creates a work that they think is good enough to be published. They then have to spend their valuable time begging others to exploit them to point where they end up with a 5% stake in THEIR business. What kind of a screwed of business model is that? ↗

— David Nicol

#writing-life #business

Nice, smart people succeed. ↗

— Tim Sanders

#business