Here's my theory about meetings and life; the three things you can't fake are erections, competence and creativity. That's why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say, 'Mmmmmm. Interesting.' If pressed, they'll add, 'I'll have to get back to you on that.' Then they don't say anything else. —Douglas Coupland More about this quote Tags: business Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were. —David Rockefeller More about this quote Tags: business Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman. —David M. Ogilvy More about this quote Tags: business Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting. —David Letterman More about this quote Tags: business Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The chief business of the American people is business. —Calvin Coolidge More about this quote Tags: business Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Drive thy business or it will drive thee. —Benjamin Franklin More about this quote Tags: business Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. —Ambrose Bierce More about this quote Tags: business Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly. —Aldus Manutius More about this quote Tags: business Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy. —Charles Peters More about this quote Tags: bureaucracy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The human brain is a most unusual instrument of elegant and as yet unknown capacity. —Will Cuppy More about this quote Tags: brain Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Estimated amount of glucose used by an adult human brain each day, expressed in M&Ms: 250 —Stuart Seaton More about this quote Tags: brain Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. —Robert Frost More about this quote Tags: brain Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's essential to tailor rehab to what impassions someone. The brain gradually learns by riveting its attention-through endless repetitions. —Harper's Index More about this quote Tags: brain Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Exercising self-restraint can be depleting, yet it can also be ennobling. —George Jessel More about this quote Tags: brain Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity. —Diane Ackerman More about this quote Tags: brain Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email