“When you look at the number of stupid people who have succeeded in business, you clearly don't have to be very bright. Business is all about getting your sales up and your costs down, the bit in the middle is profit.” PeopleLooksBitsNumbersMiddleStupidCostProfitStupid People Author:Michael O'Leary
“It happens a little bit more in the West, where there's more fluid - where everybody's originally from somewhere else. So they have a little bit more permission to do it. It happens the least, at the individual level at least, in the South, because the South has very strong, you know, set up black churches and white churches and a long history of that, and so it's a bigger social cost.” KnowsLittlesLongHappensIndividualStrongSocialBitsBlackChurchWhiteLevelsCostLittle BitBiggerWestSouthVery StrongPermissionSomewhere ElseFluidBlack Church Author:Michael Emerson
“One of the things we find when we talk to people that attend these congregations, they all have social cost to it. People want to know why they're doing that. Sometimes they're questions about selling out on their race or "Are we not good enough that you have to go to this kind of congregation and not ours?" So there are costs to it, and I think they're a little bit higher in the South because of its history.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantKindLittlesSometimesEnoughSocialBitsRaceHigherCostLittle BitSouthSellingGood EnoughNot Good EnoughCongregationSelling Out Author:Michael Emerson
“I try not to be protected. Because I feel like you can become a little bit of a robot. That's not who I am. And I don't want to be monotone. It's important to be yourself, whatever the cost.” WantFeelsTryingLittlesImportantBitsLike YouCostLittle BitWho I AmBeing YourselfProtectedRobots Author:Serena Williams
“For me, if folks who are watching YouTube can pitch in a bit to help cover the cost for creating this work, that's great, but I don't want folks who can't helped to not have access to it. I really like the crowdfunding model in that regard.” IfsWantHelpingBitsCostCreatingModelsRegardFolksAccessYoutubeCrowdfunding Author:Anita Sarkeesian
“The question is: do we pay a little bit more now? Or do we pay a whole lot later? For the equivalent of a postage stamp a day for each American, we can put a price on carbon today that will send a signal to private capital to invest in the clean technologies of tomorrow. Taking a vast portfolio of new energy solutions to scale will ultimately drive down costs through competition.” LittlesWholeTodayEnergyBitsPayTechnologyTomorrowCostLittle BitSolutionsCompetitionCleanScalesCarbonSignalsStampsPortfoliosNew EnergyPostagePostage Stamps Author:Van Jones
“I think, from a progressive point of view, to have a Democratic Congress and a Democratic White House, and to have spent the time on Obamacare, which had real benefits, 20 million insured, but not on inequality, was a major cost to the Democratic Party, costing them their majorities, but also a bit of a cost to the country, because it didn't address the fundamental issues that led to Donald Trump and that led to a lot of unhappiness, just the continued widening inequality.” ThinkingRealCountryHouseBitsWhiteViewsPartyMillionsIssuesTrumpCostBenefitsMajorsFundamentalsMajorityDemocraticCongressPoint Of ViewInequalityAddressesUnhappinessWhite HouseProgressiveDemocratic PartyObamacare Author:David Brooks
“The reality is gas prices should be much more expensive then they are because we're not incorporating the true damage to the environment and the hidden costs of mining oil and transporting it to the U.S. Whenever you have an unpriced externality, you have a bit of a market failure, to the degree that eternality remains unpriced.” ShouldRealityBitsEnvironmentCostDegreesRemainsOilDamageExpensiveGasMiningGas PricesIncorporatingExternalitiesUranium MiningMarket Failure Author:Elon Musk
“perhaps I possess a certain Midwestern sensibility that I inherited from my mother and her parents, a sensibility that Warren Buffet seems to share: that at a certain point one has enough, that you can derive as much pleasure from a Picasso hanging in a museum as from one that's hanging in your den, that you can get an awfully good meal in a restaurant for less than twenty dollars, and that once your drapes cost more than the average American's yearly salary, then you can afford to pay a bit more in taxes.” EnoughSeemsMotherCertainBitsParentPleasurePayShareCostTaxesTwentiesDollarsAverageMealsRestaurantsMuseumsSensibleSensibilitySalaryBuffetsDensGood MealsWarren BuffetDrapes Author:Barack Obama