“It takes courage to care for others, because people who care run the risk of being hurt. It's not easy to let your guard down, open your heart, react with sympathy or compassion or indignation or enthusiasm when usually it's much easier-and sometimes much safer-not to get involved. People who take the risk make a tremendous discovery: The more things you care about, and the more intensely you care, the more alive you are.” PeopleHeartSometimesCareRunningEasyHurtCompassionAliveRiskInvolvedEasierDiscoveryEnthusiasmWho CaresGet InvolvedIndignationOpen Your HeartBeing Hurt Author:Arthur Gordon Webster
“With joint-stock corporations, investors can place bets on the success of many different companies, without having to play a central management role in any one of them. This allows investors to diversify their financial holdings. It also allows them to capture profits on their investments, without having to get involved in the dirty, troublesome business of actually running a company.” DifferentPlayRunningCompanyRolesInvolvedManagementInvestmentFinancialProfitDirtyCorporationsCaptureInvestorsJointsGet InvolvedTroublesome Book:Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism Source: Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism
“If you asked everybody in a quiet room what they think, they'd say, 'What does the NCAA do really well? We run championships really well.' And yet we have this thing we don't get involved in.” IfsThinkingWellsDoeRunningRoomsInvolvedQuietChampionshipGet InvolvedNcaaQuiet Room Author:Christopher R. Hill