“Those who are skilled in archery bend their bow only when they are preparing to use it; when they do not require it, they allow it to remain unbent, for otherwise it would remain unserviceable when the time for using it arrived. So it is with man. If he were to devote himself unceasingly to a dull round of business, without breaking the monotony by cheerful amusements, he would fall imperceptibly into idiocy, or be struck by paralysis” IfsMenUseFallBusinessRoundsDullBowsPreparingCheerfulAmusementMonotonyParalysisIdiocyArchery Author:Herodotus
“Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.” Would BeChangeBusinessRiskElementsTriumphUncertaintyDullRoutineInsightful Author:J. Paul Getty
“You are who you go to lunch with! Break bread with cool and you will become more cool. Conversely: break bread with dull and well, you can figure it out.” WellsBusinessBreakFiguresBreadDullLunch Author:Tom Peters
“There is little that can be said about most economic goods. A toothbrush does little but clean teeth. Aspirin does little but dull pain. Alcohol is important mostly for making people more or less drunk ... There being so little to be said, much is to be invented.” PeopleLittlesDoeSaidImportantPainBusinessEconomicCleanAlcoholTeethDrunkDullGoodsAspirinToothbrushes Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“Really to succeed, we must give; of our souls to the soulless, of our love to the lonely, of our intelligence to the dull. Business is quite as much a process of giving as it is of getting.” GivingSoulSuccessProcessBusinessKindnessSucceedLonelyDullOur LoveSoulless Author:Alice Foote MacDougall