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“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“The relentless pursuit of mass will make you boring, because mass means average, it means the center of the curve, it requires you to offend no one and satisfy everyone.”
― Seth Godin, This Is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn to See

“What you have learned is that the capacity of the plant is equal to the capacity of its bottlenecks,” says Jonah.”
― Eliyahu M. Goldratt, The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement

“The entire bottleneck concept is not geared to decrease operating expense, it’s focused on increasing throughput.”
― Eliyahu M. Goldratt, The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement

“We sweep dust to remove our worldly desires. We scrub dirt to free ourselves of attachments.”
― Shoukei Matsumoto, A Monk's Guide to a Clean House and Mind

“People who don’t respect objects don’t respect people. For them, anything no longer needed is just rubbish. A child who grows up watching their parents act this way comes to perceive not just things but friends in the same way as well.”
― Shoukei Matsumoto, A Monk's Guide to a Clean House and Mind

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
― C.G. Jung

“I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build!":”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build! (Howard Roark)”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead