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“There’s one relationship in your life—in everyone’s life—that has been kept a secret. You don’t know when it began, and yet you depend upon it for everything. If this relationship ever ended, the world would disappear in a puff of smoke. This is your relationship to reality. A”
― Deepak Chopra, You Are the Universe: Discovering Your Cosmic Self and Why It Matters

“If your organization requires success before commitment, it will never have either. Part of leadership (a big part of it, actually) is the ability to stick with the dream for a long time. Long enough that the critics realize that you're going to get there one way or another...so they follow.”
― Seth Godin, Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

“The people who use the stage-specific leverage points to upgrade the tribal culture emerge as Tribal Leaders.”
― Dave Logan, Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization

“The economic pie of 2014 is far larger than the pie of 1500, but it is distributed so unevenly that many African peasants and Indonesian labourers return home after a hard day’s work with less food than did their ancestors 500 years ago. Much like the Agricultural Revolution, so too the growth of the modern economy might turn out to be a colossal fraud. The human species and the global economy may well keep growing, but many more individuals may live in hunger and want.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Throughout the eighteenth century the yield on slave-trade investments was about 6 per cent a year – they were extremely profitable, as any modern consultant would be quick to admit.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“If happiness is determined by expectations, then two pillars of our society – mass media and the advertising industry – may unwittingly be depleting”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind