At this very moment you are probably basing your value on how other people value you, even though most of the time, you don’t even know what these people really think. You are assuming what they think based on behavior you interpreted. In truth, mo...
Each year about 600,000 start-ups are launched. Less than 0.5 percent attract VC. Of Inc. magazine's annual list of the 500 fastest growing companies in the United States assessed over a decade (1997–2007), less than 20 percent of companies were ve...
Whether we do it consciously or subconsciously, we tend to organize our lives to display our identity as accurately as possible. Our lifestyle choices often reveal our values, or at least what we’d like people to perceive as our values…as we make...
Maybe we feel meaning only when we deal with something bigger. Perhaps we hope that someone else, especially someone important to us, will ascribe value to what we've produced? Maybe we need the illusion that our work might one day matter to many peo...
You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? Somebody who falls apart when you walk out the door? Yo...
By using repetition, images, and other strategies - all of which communicate truths in ways that are not cognitively or propositional - marketing forms us into the kind of persons who want to buy beer to have meaningful relationships, or to buy a car...
The first question we must address deals with optimism, the possibility of achieving our goal. Are we in a position where we can actually hope to effect change? Assuming we become convinced that there are reasons for optimism, we move to the next que...
ABUSIVE MEN COME in every personality type, arise from good childhoods and bad ones, are macho men or gentle, “liberated” men. No psychological test can distinguish an abusive man from a respectful one. Abusiveness is not a product of a man’s e...
Marriage can be a magnificent lesson in becoming our best selves; that is true.
All true are not truthful.
The best fiction is true.
Be a true Heart, not a follower.
It's not a stereotype if it's always true.
Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.
The underlying logic of sacrifice was always the same: In order to gain the god's goodwill, destroy what you value most.
Humans are strange. … They value punishment because they think it means their actions are important—that are important. … it's vanity.
They said I was a valued customer, now they send me hate mail.
Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.
One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own nasty way.
Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.
The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact.
