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“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

“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 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

“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