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“It is easy to forget how much you have, when your eyes are always fixed on what you have not.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Heroes

“find it galling that issues such as “safe spaces” in colleges devoid of divergent viewpoints, transgender bathroom policy, and vaccine benefits have even crossed into the proverbial town square, much less all but crowded-out issues such as nuclear proliferation or America’s place in the world.”
― Peter Zeihan, The End of the World is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization―Irreverent Predictions from a Geopolitical Strategist

“At present, birth rates for Millennials are the lowest in American history.”
― Peter Zeihan, The End of the World is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization―Irreverent Predictions from a Geopolitical Strategist

“While we’ll be discovering the edges of our new economic models as we go, our history strongly suggests that fewer workers by definition means more expensive labor. That in turn should prompt everyone to figure out how to make that scarce labor more productive.”
― Peter Zeihan, The End of the World is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization―Irreverent Predictions from a Geopolitical Strategist

“This will generate not the sort of heavy American involvement most countries would find distasteful, but instead large-scale American disengagement that most countries will find terrifying.”
― Peter Zeihan, The End of the World is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization―Irreverent Predictions from a Geopolitical Strategist

“The fact is, pretty websites don’t sell things. Words sell things. And if we haven’t clarified our message, our customers won’t listen.”
― Donald Miller, Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen

“The first mistake brands make is they fail to focus on the aspects of their offer that will help people survive and thrive.”
― Donald Miller, Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen

“The goal for our branding should be that every potential customer knows exactly where we want to take them:”
― Donald Miller, Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen

“Can your products be positioned as tools your customers can use to fight back against something that ought not be?”
― Donald Miller, Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen

“A guide expresses an understanding of the pain and frustration of their hero.”
― Donald Miller, Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen

“We have to clearly invite customers to take a journey with us or they won’t.”
― Donald Miller, Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen

“Blog subjects, e-mail content, and bullet points on our website can all include elements of potential failure to give our customers a sense of urgency when it comes to our products and services.”
― Donald Miller, Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen

“any structure that has a ranking system tempts you to try to climb it.”
― Lee Child, Persuader

“Donut: WE NEED LIGHTNING? THAT’S JUST LIKE IN THAT TIME MACHINE MOVIE WHERE THE GUY MAKES OUT WITH HIS MOM.”
― Matt Dinniman, The Gate of the Feral Gods

“Donut: SHE DOESN’T EVEN USE A LITTERBOX, CARL. IT’S HIGHLY SUSPICIOUS.”
― Matt Dinniman, The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

“Right now, I needed to get this damn crab to jerk off into the ocean.”
― Matt Dinniman, The Eye of the Bedlam Bride