Japheth

“When less money is available to run your business, you will find ways to get the same or better results with less. By taking your profit first, you will be forced to think smarter and innovate more.”
― Mike Michalowicz, Profit First: Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine

“The thing about the human brain is that, when you believe something, the brain will scan the environment for any signs that the belief is true. Information that challenges our beliefs about ourselves and the world is psychologically threatening. Things suddenly become unpredictable and that doesn’t feel safe. So the brain tends to discount it and hold on to whatever fits with previous experience, even if that belief causes distress.”
― Julie Smith, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

“In 1955, a modern philosopher named C. Northcote Parkinson came up with the counterintuitive Parkinson’s Law: that the demand for something expands to match its supply. In economics, this is called induced demand—it’s why expanding roads to reduce traffic congestion never works in the long term because more drivers always show up in their cars to fill those extra lanes.”
― Mike Michalowicz, Profit First: Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine

“20And as for you, ye meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.”
― Various, The Tanakh: The Jewish Bible – The Holy Scriptures According to the Masoretic Text