Alex

“It’s the kind of place where, for fun, people do Civil War reenactments in the summer and meth in the winter.”
― Jack Townsend, Tales from the Gas Station: Volume One

“He considered himself a good man, and always did his best to avoid passing judgement on others, but deep down he had an unshakeable conviction that all rich people were deeply, deeply stupid.”
― Jonathan Sims, Thirteen Storeys

“If you estimate that the wage of the average store employee is $18,000 and that the cost of finding, hiring and training each new employee is 1.5 times his salary, then the total cost to the company for the different levels of retention between the two groups is $18,000 x 1.5 x 1,000 = $27,000,000. And that’s just the hard cost. The drain of experienced employees who have developed valuable relationships with their customers and their colleagues is harder to measure but is just as significant a loss.”
― Gallup Press, FIRST, BREAK ALL THE RULES: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently

“the smoke detector may or may not be an old frisbee.”
― Jack Townsend, Tales from the Gas Station: Volume One