Zach Arend

“You dramatically increase your value to others if you always maintain a calm and pleasant manner.”
― Daniel Lapin, Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money

“It is a sad commentary on our civilization, however, that war and suffering rather than peacetime living can mobilize human readiness to make sacrifices, and that the times of peace seem mainly to encourage selfishness.”
― Erich Fromm, To Have or To Be?

“as Jack Welch approximated the point more pungently in his 2005 book Winning, “In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement like hell.”)”
― Walter Kiechel, The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World

“When setting expectations, no matter what has been said or written, if substandard performance is accepted and no one is held accountable—if there are no consequences—that poor performance becomes the new standard.”
― Jocko Willink, Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win