“My father used to tell me that you can talk about price or you can talk about value, but you can’t talk about both at the same time. We just don’t let our people talk about price. So they have to talk about value.”— Si Newhouse, getthedrift.com
“A $30,000 software package is actually $3,000 worth of software plus $27,000 worth of meetings.”— Seth Godin, sethgodin.typepad.com
“A blind guy rang my door bell... When I opened the door he told me, "You should really cover your windows up," and handed me a business card.”— StodgyDog, reddit.com
“As an advertiser, I must tell you ads are dead. The future is about things people want, not things they have to endure.”— Lou Paskalis, wsj.com
“There’s zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.”— Susan Cain, ted.com
“...there is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do...Well, a philosopher can always contradict other philosophers.”— William James, theatlantic.com
“Trump’s political career began in advocacy of birtherism. But long before that, he had made his worldview clear.”— Ta-Nehisi Coates, theatlantic.com
“Barack Obama delivered to black people the hoary message that if they work twice as hard as white people, anything is possible. But Trump’s counter is persuasive: Work half as hard as black people, and even more is possible”— Ta-Nehisi Coates, theatlantic.com
“It's always a nice feeling, having people think that you feel things much deeper than you're allowed to say, but this isn't true. If you want to find out what a writer or a cartoonist really feels, look at his work. That's enough.”— Shel Silverstein, theatlantic.com
“It is not the genius at the top giving directions that makes people great. It is great people that make the guy at the top look like a genius.”— Simon Sinek, amazon.com
“What are the five products you want to focus on? Get rid of the rest, because they’re dragging you down.”— Steve Jobs, amazon.com
“The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all but goes on making his own business better all the time.”— Henry Ford, thebalance.com
“Certainly not every Trump voter is a white supremacist, just as not every white person in the Jim Crow South was a white supremacist. But every Trump voter felt it acceptable to hand the fate of the country over to one.”— Ta-Nehisi Coates, theatlantic.com
“Asserting that Trump’s rise was primarily powered by cultural resentment and economic reversal has become de rigueur among white pundits and thought leaders. But evidence for this is, at best, mixed.”— Ta-Nehisi Coates, theatlantic.com
“White Americans elected an orcish reality-TV star who insists on taking his intelligence briefings in picture-book form.”— Ta-Nehisi Coates, theatlantic.com
“For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.”— Anne Fadiman, theatlantic.com