Skeptycal

“So what motivates people to work hard every day to do things that will satisfy the economy’s needs but not their own? Like so many thinkers, Smith believed that people want just one thing—happiness—hence economies can blossom and grow only if people are deluded into believing that the production of wealth will make them happy.14 If and only if people hold this false belief will they do enough producing, procuring, and consuming to sustain their economies.”
― Daniel M. Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness

“The most important characteristic of content marketing today is not quality or quantity. It’s insight. And that is the differentiator lacking almost everywhere.”
― Mark Schaefer, The Content Code: Six essential strategies to ignite your content, your marketing, and your business

“the failures are a feature, not a bug.”
― Al Ramadan, Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets – A Silicon Valley Guide to Category Design for Building Legendary Companies

“Roses aren't any less beautiful because they don't live long. No one looks at them and thinks, man, what a tragedy they'll only be around for a little while. You just appreciate them while they're there. Or if you don't, you're missing the point.”
― Sophie Cameron, Out of the Blue