“But such people (Moderate Conservatives) aren't liberal. What they are is corporate. Their habits and opinions owe far more to the standards of courtesy and taste that prevail within the white-collar world than they do to Franklin Roosevelt and the United Mine Workers. We live in a time, after all, when hard-nosed bosses compose awestruck disquisitions on the nature of 'change,' punk rockers dispense leadership secrets, shallow profundities about authenticity sell luxury cars, tech billionaires build rock'n'roll musuems, management theorists ponder the nature of coolness, and a former lyricist fro the Grateful Dead hail the dawn of New Economy capitalism from the heights of Davos. Coversvatives may not understand why, but business culture had melded with counterculture for reasons having a great deal to do with business culture's usual priority - profit.”
“The New Economy brings the need to tap people’s curiosity, quest for knowledge and understanding, in order to develop a sustainable society.”
Source: The Sustainable Organisation - a paradigm for a fairer society: Think about sustainability in an age of technological progress and rising inequality
“...they sell dollar bills for seventy-five cents and take credit for how fast they’re growing.”
Source: Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us
“Creativity tempered by sound judgment is the currency of the new economy. It remains largely an open playing field for anyone who wants to relearn on a daily basis everything they thought they knew.”
“To thrive as a business you have to outshine your previous standard by developing a rich portfolio of skills, services and products that puts distance between you and the competition.”
Source: Opportunities in the New Economy and Beyond: Birthing Entrepreneurs in a Pandemic Economy to Create Successful Businesses and New Wealth
“Success is not the absence of self-doubt; it's the resilience to move forward despite it.”
“Sometimes the universe turns off all the lights so we have no choice but to find our own.”
“It's like we're surrounded by this big, all-you-can-eat buffet of incredible experiences and insights and feelings and opportunities and things and people and ways to share our gifts with the world, and all we have to do is align our energy with what we want and take decisive action to allow this good in our lives.”
Source: You Are a Badass / You Are a Badass at Making Money
“You didn't see us," she said to Anna...
"I was... lost in thought," Anna replied.
"What were you thinking about?"
"You," Anna said. "Isn't that strange? I was thinking of you two so hard that I didn't see you.”
Source: The Storyteller
“All the good things on this earth are trophy cups. The strong win them. The weak lose them.
from a speech by the Nazi Minister of Education”
Source: Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941