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“Managers think of themselves as captains of a ship on a stormy sea. Risk for them is danger, but they are fighting it, very controlled.”

Thinking Fighting Business Risk Sea Danger Ships Managers Controlled Captains Stormy Stormy Seas

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death.”

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Book:Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett

Source: Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett

“... it is a lonely programme. The very virtues you cultivate become walls that inevitably separate you from your kind.... A new danger comes to your soul, and intolerance and impatience with those who are as you have been all but destroy that which you have taken such pains to build up. Not alone are there spiritual barriers between you and the friends that you have, but your business training has made your mind incisive. In the swift rush of business you have no time for small debates and petty dilemmas.”

“The small perplexities of small minds eddy and boil about you. Confident from the experience that has led you out of these same dangers, you attack each problem as it appears, unafraid.”

Mind Problem Business Danger Unafraid Perplexity Small Minds

Author:Alice Foote MacDougall

“We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.”

Real Lost Business Cities Danger Goes On City Life Cities At Night

Author:Hubert H. Humphrey

“When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.”

“...[D]ivision of labor, in my mind, is one of the dangers of work-based technology. Modern IT infrastructure allows us to break projects into very small, discrete parts and assign each person to do only one of the many parts. In so doing, companies run the risk of taking away employees' sense of the big picture, purpose, and sense of completion.”

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Author:Dan Ariely

“A nation is not in danger of financial disaster merely because it owes itself money.”

Nations Money Business Danger Financial Disaster

Author:Andrew Mellon

“Enjoyment, on the other hand, is not always pleasant, and it can be very stressful at times. A mountain climber, for example, may be close to freezing, utterly exhausted, and in danger of falling into a bottomless crevasse, yet he wouldn't want to be anywhere else. Sipping a piña colada under a palm tree at the edge of the turquoise ocean is idyllic, but it just doesn't compare to the exhilaration he feels on the windswept ridge.”

Source: Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning