It is in the blood of genius to love play for its own sake, and whether one uses one’s skill on thrones or women,
Business as the ultimate sport
Marc Connelly, On Earnest Hemingway
Jason Epstein
Book publishing is not a conventional business. It more closely resembles a vocation or an amateur sport. In which the primary goal is the
David Brooks
Counterculture capitalists are not restrained by the old puritanical or Protestant code. Instead, they have constructed their own ethos that creates a similar and
John Seely Brown, Xerox
Calderoni, CEO of Ariba
Gelett Burgess
There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play.
Aristotle Onassis
Max Weber
in the US, “the pursuit of wealth, stripped of its relgious and ethical meaning, tends to become associated with purely mundane passions, which often
Michael Santoli
Hedge fund managers who have shorted their way to respectable gains this year are playing a ball control game, trying to avoid big risks