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After the rug got pulled out from beneath them in 2008, a lot of businesses and investors realized that they were playing their own version of Hollywood economics: Pour tons of money into developing a product, then pray for a hit. If it
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“To be sure, man’s search for meaning may arouse inner tension rather than inner equilibrium. However, precisely such tension is an indispensable prerequisite of mental health.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“Лишь тот достоин жизни и свободы, кто каждый день за них идёт на бой.”
― Faust
― Faust
“EQ is so critical to success that it accounts for 58 percent of performance in all types of jobs. It’s the single biggest predictor of performance in the workplace and the strongest driver of leadership and personal excellence.”
― Emotional Intelligence 2.0
― Emotional Intelligence 2.0
“As James U. McNeal, a professor of marketing at Texas A&M University, puts it, “75 percent of spontaneous food purchases can be traced to a nagging child. And one out of two mothers will buy a food simply because her child requests it. To trigger desire in a child is to trigger desire in the whole family.”
― Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy
― Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy
“The point is that the overwhelming energy cost associated with food is not in the food itself (the 2,000 food calories a day per person) but in its production, transportation, distribution, and marketing through the supply chain from farms to stores to your house and ultimately to your mouth.”
― Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life, in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
― Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life, in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
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