Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing but nobody else does.
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Steuart Henderson Britt
A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered if they might be used-metaphorically, of course-to demonstrate the existence of God. Does naming a sphere of nothingness transmute it into...
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Margaret Atwood
Using your talent, hobby or profession in a way that makes you contribute with something good to this world is truly the way to go.
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Simon Zingerman
That is why enemies can be great motivators. They serve as fuel for your fire.
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Simon Zingerman
The more details, depth and thought you put into your ideas the more valuable they become.
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Simon Zingerman
More Quotes By Derek Thompson
Imitating recent successes is a game that everybody knows how to play. But seeing the next big thing before anybody else sees it is far more valuable... It means being a little bit wrong at just the right time.
This long-tail distribution of returns is why it's important to be bold. Big winners pay for so many experiments.
Quality, it seems, is a necessary, but insufficient attribute for success.
It is not merely the feeling that something is familiar. It is one step beyond that. It is something new, challenging, or surprising that opens a door into a feeling of comfort, meaning, or familiarity. It is called an aesthetic aha.
Initially [my favorite books] seem to immerse me in another life, but ultimately they immerse me in me; I am looking through the window into another person’s home, but it is my face that I see in the reflection.
