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All business opportunities stem from someone else's inability to resolve a simple and inevitable problem. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#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

I'd run you know. It's like when you're really busy doing something and you don't have time to think about things. Well, I'd run and run and run so I couldn't think. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#josephine #run #think #business

If you want your fridge-freezer and your car and a nice house and asphalt on the roads and a health service, then thank the weapons business. Thank the war economy that drives us to this. ↗

— Jasper Fforde

#business

They put on fresh gloves and got back to business. Jazz wiped up the blood splatters in the freezer and tossed the tissues in with Howie’s waste. It bothered him that he was leaving evidence behind without some sort of oxygenated bleach, those blood splatters would still show up under Luminol. Of course, the odds of anyone deciding to spray down the morgue freezer and switch on an ultraviolet light were pretty minimal, so it’s not like it was evidence that anyone would ever find or use. Still: Billy Dent’s First Commandment was “Thou shalt not leave evidence. ↗

— Barry Lyga

#business

Self-talk reflects your innermost feelings. ↗

— Asa Don Brown

#counsellor #counselor #humanity #joy #kindness

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions. ↗

— Antony Jay

#creative #creative mind #mind #questions #spot

Declining overseas admissions costs us not only much needed revenues for colleges and universities, but much more importantly, we lose the best opportunity we have to introduce foreign students to all that America has to offer the world. ↗

— Richard Lugar

#best #colleges #costs #declining #foreign

The sun had already set behind the mountains, and the sky had been drained of color. The trellises of sauvignon blanc flowed down the hill in even rows toward the valley floor. Whatever I was looking for, it wasn’t outside. As far as I could tell, the grapes were minding their own business. ↗

— Frederick Weisel

#grapes #sauvignon-blanc #sunset #teller #weisel

The right word at the right time will unlock the door to treasures - the wrong one will close it forever ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#influencing-people #rasheed-ogunlaru-quotes #saying-the-right-thing #treasure #business