“Too much choice is demotivating.”
—Sheena Iyengar (Columbia University) & Mark Lepper (Stanford)
January 2011
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“Your biggest asset is a clear mind and a very large idea.”
—Andy Smith, The Dragonfly Effect
“It’s worse to tolerate your job than to hate it because, if the pain is painful enough, you’ll make a change.”
—Tim Ferriss
“It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.”
—Henry Ford
“Economists study and analyze poverty in the nice offices…have all the statistics…make all the models„, and are convinced that they know everything that you can know about poverty. But they don’t understand poverty. And that’s the big problem. And that’s why poverty is still there.”
—Manfred Max-Neef on Barefoot Economics
“Photovoltaic plants simply aren’t cost-efficient without tax breaks and other government carrots.”
—Fortune Magazine, Jan 17, 2011. Pg 29
“The mantra of this age is “treat different people differently.” You can’t do that if you don’t connect. You can’t connect if you’re not willing to be interested. You can’t connect if you’re not willing to step outside the corporate box.”
—Seth Godin, talking to Chronicle of Philanthropy
“[The] nation that out-educates us today is going to out-compete us tomorrow.”
—Barack Obama
“Potential is good when you’re 15 years old. After that, you need to start doing something.”
—Chris Guillebeau
