“We now assume that when people turn on the evening news, they basically already know what the news is. They've heard it on the radio. They've seen it on the Internet. They've seen it on one of the cable companies. So that makes our job a bit different.” PeopleKnowsDifferentJobsTurnsLiteratureBitsCompanyHeardInternetNewsAssumingRadioEveningCablesTurn-on Author:Bob Schieffer
“When a company is fairly certain of a profit margin that is substantial, it can assume responsibility for the clinical trials to develop a blockbuster drug.” CertainResponsibilityCompanyDrugAssumingProfitTrialsMarginsClinicalsBlockbusterProfit MarginClinical Trials Author:Anthony S. Fauci
“The telephone conversation is, by its very nature, reactive, not reflective. Immediacy is its prime virtue. ... The letter, written in absorbed solitude, is an act of faith: it assumes the presence of humanity: world and self are generated from within: loneliness is courted, not feared. To write a letter is to be alone with my thoughts in the conjured presence of another person. I keep myself imaginative company. I occupy the empty room.” WorldWritingPersonsSelfHumanityRoomsCompanyVirtueWrittenLonelinessSolitudeConversationEmptyLettersAssumingPrimeTelephonesMy ThoughtsImaginativeImmediacyEmpty Rooms Author:Vivian Gornick
“Assume the worst. About everybody. But don't let this poisoned outlook affect your job performance. Let it all roll off your back. Ignore it. Be amused by what you see and suspect. Just because someone you work with is a miserable, treacherous, self-serving, capricious and corrupt asshole shouldn't prevent you from enjoying their company, working with them or finding them entertaining.” SelfJobsEnjoyCompanyWorstFindingsPerformancesAssumingMiserableServingSuspectsEntertainingOutlookAmusedTreacherousSelf ServingCapriciousKitchen Confidential Book:Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw Source: Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw
“If a city has a 30% Negro population, then it is logical to assume that Negroes should have at least 30% of the jobs in any particular company, and jobs in all categories rather than only in menial areas.” IfsShouldJobsCitiesCompanyParticularAreasShould HaveAssumingPopulationLogicalCategories Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge.” PeopleMotivationIndividualLevelsCompanyMissingAssumingRevengeRationalSuspectsUnderestimateIntuitive Author:Dan Ariely
“Why are we here? I think many people assume, wrongly, that a company exists solely to make money. Money is an important part of a companys existence, if the company is any good. But a result is not a cause. We have to go deeper and find the real reason for our being.” PeopleIfsThinkingImportantRealReasonCausesResultsExistenceCompanyAssumingDeeperMaking Money Author:David Packard
“I think you're peripatetic when you work in this industry. My husband and I are assuming the role of co-artistic directors at the Sydney Theatre Company in 2008. But as long as the film industry will have me, I will have it.” ThinkingLongFilmCompanyRolesIndustryDirectorsHusbandAssumingTheatreArtisticMy HusbandFilm IndustrySydney Author:Cate Blanchett
“When companies get bigger they try to replicate their success. But they assume their magic came from process. They try to use processes to substitute content.” TryingUseProcessCompanyMagicBiggerAssumingSubstitutesReplicate Author:Steve Jobs