A new consensus about why the world makes sense, a synthesis of science and religion that can be characterized as evangelical rationality. The outlook
Business Quotes
David Brooks
The zillionaires say they are in it for the self-expression, not the money. ‘The money hasn’t changed a thing’, Rob Glaser of Real Networks
Edward Shils
In every society…there are some persons with an unusual sensitivity to the sacred, an uncommon reflectiveness about the nature of the universe, and the
David Brooks
Executives who dreamed of turning themselves into refined gentleman may have valued leisure, but executives who aspire to be artists value work.
David Brooks
Distinction made by philosopher John Dewey, between ‘customary’ and ‘reflective’ morality.
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
The job of leadership today is not just to make money. Its to make meaning.
David Brooks
Karl Marx argued that classes are defined by their means of production. Brooks argues they are defined by their consumption.
David Brooks
The bourgeois prized materialism, order, regularity, custom, rational thinking, self-discipline, and productivity. The bohemians celebrated creativity, rebellion, novelty, self-expression, anti-materialism, and vivid experience.
Theodore Roszak
What is of supreme importance, is that each of us should become a person, a whole integrated person, in whom there is manifested a