“Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.” ThinkingFirstsLittlesTwoBookIdeasFormPresidentBusinessHarderVicesDrawingPlanningSophisticatedPrintingVice PresidentPlannersDynamite Author:John Welch
“It's not about you, it's about the next person. The single best use of a business book is to help someone else. Sharing what you read, handing the book to a person who needs it... pushing those around you to get in sync and to take action-that's the main reason it's a book, not a video or a seminar. A book is a souvenir and a container and a motivator and an easily leveraged tool. Hoarding books makes them worth less, not more.” NeedsPersonsBookReasonHelpingUseActionNextBusinessToolsVideoPushingHoardingContainersSeminarsSouvenirsSync Author:Seth Godin
“What they don't realize is that I'm not in the business to make clothes. I'm not in the business to make more money for myself, for Christ's sake. This is the reason Patagonia exists - to put into action the recommendations I read about in books to avoid environmental collapse. That's the reason I'm in business - to try to clean up our own act, and try to influence other companies to do the right thing, and try to influence our customers to do the right thing. So we're not going to change.” TryingBookReasonActionChristRealizingBusinessCompanyInfluenceClothesCleanEnvironmentalSakeCustomersRight ThingCollapseMore MoneyRecommendationsPatagonia Author:Yvon Chouinard
“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.” MenBookReadingBusinessMediaDrinkHumorousHistoricalProfoundLibertarianNewspapersInsaneEducatedJournalismBeerLimited GovernmentBig GovernmentIndividual LibertyLimiting GovernmentNews MediaNewspapers JournalismReading Newspapers Author:Thomas Jefferson
“We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.” PeopleWritingBookHardSchoolSuccessMoneyBusinessTeachProductsHard WorkSelf ImprovementInvestingBusiness Success Author:Robert Kiyosaki
“If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.” IfsMenFirstsMayMeanBookStatesFilmHouseBusinessWatchesSittingLibertarianAmendmentsFreedom Of SpeechFirst AmendmentRights And FreedomsSupreme Court JusticeSitting AloneFirst Amendment Rights Author:Thurgood Marshall
“All great truths begin as blasphemies.” BookTruthScienceReligionReligiousBusinessDrinkHumorousProfoundAtheistInsaneBeerBalletBlasphemyAtheisticDiscardedScientific TruthMy TruthSpiritual TruthQuestioning Beliefs Author:George Bernard Shaw
“Just because something is typed-whether it is typed on a business card or typed in a newspaper or book-this does not mean that it is true.” WritingMeanDoeBookTruthBusinessNewspapersCardsJournalismTypographyBusiness Card Author:Daniel Handler