“Colombia has a huge variety of plant and animal species, and we have enormous potential. Small and mid-sized companies should come to Colombia. From here, they have access to the entire Latin American market.” ShouldAnimalCompanyHugePlantSpeciesAccessEnormousVarietyLatinLatin AmericaColombiaPlants And AnimalsLatin American Author:Juan Manuel Santos
“All I can tell you with certainty is that I, for one, have no self, and that I am unwilling or unable to perpetrate upon myself the joke of a self. What I have instead is a variety of impersonations I can do, and not only of myself - a troupe of players that I have internalised, a permanent company of actors that I can call upon when a self is required. I am a theater and nothing more than a theater.” I CanSelfActorsCan DoCompanyPlayerIdentityJokesTheaterCertaintyVarietyPermanentUnwillingTroupe Author:Philip Roth
“Along with our passivity, we're entering a profoundly masochistic phase everyone is a victim these days, of parents, doctors, pharmaceutical companies, even love itself. And how much we enjoy it. Our happiest moments are spent trying to think up new varieties of victimhood.” ThinkingTryingMomentsParentEnjoyCompanyDoctorsVictimVarietyThese DaysPhasesEnteringPassivityVictimhoodPharmaceuticalMasochisticPharmaceutical Companies Author:J. G. Ballard
“Unlike private enterprise which quickly modifies its actions to meet emergencies - unlike the shopkeeper who promptly finds the wherewith to satisfy a sudden demand - unlike the railway company which doubles its trains to carry a special influx of passengers; the law-made instrumentality lumbers on under all varieties of circumstances at its habitual rate. By its very nature it is fitted only for average requirements, and inevitably fails under unusual requirements.” MadeActionLawCompanyFailingSpecialCircumstancesDemandTrainRateAverageVarietyEnterpriseUnusualRequirementsEmergenciesPassengersHabitualRailwayPrivate EnterpriseLumberShopkeepers Book:Essays: Scientific, Political and Speculative Source: Essays: Scientific, Political and Speculative
“One would think that the larger the company is in which we are engaged, the greater variety of thoughts and subjects would be started into discourse; but, instead of this we find that conversation is never so much straightened and confined, as in numerous assemblies.” ThinkingWould BeCompanyGreaterSubjectsConversationVarietyEngagedDiscourseConfinedAssembly Book:Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated)
“Companies like Nike already use Graffiti as a standard variety in their marketing campaigns and the first people who read Naomi Klein's 'No Logo' were marketing gurus who wanted to know what they shouldn't do.” PeopleKnowsFirstsUseWantedCompanyStandardsMarketingCampaignsVarietyGuruGraffitiLogosNikeMarketing Campaigns Author:Johannes Grenzfurthner