“Rule of thumb: Anyone will say your idea is great if you're annoying enough about it.”
Source: The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you
“The floods, the fires, the tornadoes, the hurricanes, the droughts, the water shortages, the earthquakes. [...] Why did I think it would nonetheless be business as usual? Because we’d been hearing these things for so long, I suppose. You don’t believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you”
Source: The Testaments
“...we're certainly not going to let a client's interests suffer because of a narrow-minded adherence to the letter of the law.”
Source: Void Star
“Whatever he had been and whatever he'd been called, he was gone, so I did what usually I did around death which was to forget all about it. The whole shambles - as in the old meaning of shambles, as in slaughterhouse, blood-house, meat market, business-as-usual - once again took hold. Deciding to miss my French night class, I put on my make-up and got ready to go to the club. This was to the brightest, the busiest, the most popular of the eleven drinking-clubs existing in our small area and as for going: drinking clubs were the exact places you would go, exactly what you would do, when both hyper and deadened and in need of alcohol.”
Source: Milkman
“When we stick to our views and aren’t even willing to consider what others have to say, we lose an opportunity to grow and become better.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“Growth isn't a mindset, it's an ever changing set of heuristic experiments. Sometimes you soar, sometimes you stumble through.”
“You don't grow through successes, you grow through what you go through.”
“Destiny rewards the cultivated. Be the one who’s ready before the room knows it needs you.”
Source: The Everyday Strategist: Develop strategic leadership and management skills with practical lessons on building resilience, leading through uncertainty, and connecting theory to real-world practice
“Just what did Maria tell you?" he asked softly. Carlos lowered his voice, "She says that she has
fallen in love with you. You make her heart feel happy, in a way that it never has before. Surely señor, knowing this, you will stay and marry Tis Maria?"
Trey hesitated. "She told you that?"
"Yes, Señor Trey. She whispered in my ear, so that Juan would not hear her. Now you must change your plans and stay with us."
Trey let out a sigh. "It ain't quite that easy, son. There are lots of other things to consider."
Carlos pinched his brow. "What other things?"
"It's hard to explain," Trey said. "Maybe when you're a little older, you'll understand. A man and a woman have to talk about lots of things before they become husband and wife.'
Then Carlos took a step closer to Trey, and there was a plea in his voice when he spoke. "Please talk to her, then. Talk about those things, so you can stay with us forever."
Trey chuckled softly. "Forever's a long time. And there's lots of things we'd have to talk about. But I'm glad you told me how she feels about me. I'll talk to her sometime, when we're alone."
Carlos smiled now. "Tonight would be a good time. After Juan and Señor Stiles are asleep," he said boldly.
Trey almost laughed out loud. "There'll be plenty of time for that," he said.”
Source: Santa Fe Showdown
“Lightning strikes the slaughterhouse flagpole and the antelope scatter like minnows as the rain begins to fall, and finally, having lost what was to be lost, my torn and black heart rebels, saying enough already, enough, this is as low as I go.”
Source: CivilWarLand in Bad Decline