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.
Business Quotes
Jackson Lears
most thoughtful meditations on chance have been rooted in a willingness to live with unresolved conflicts – to embrace accident while affirming the possibility
Jackson Lears
Cultures of control – as in the American Protestant or managerial tradition – dismiss chance as a demon to be denied or a difficulty
Jackson Lears
Whatever the object, what is crucial is the desire to be always in pursuit, on the edge, whether at the roulette tables or in
Calderoni, CEO of Ariba
I like the sport of bargaining.
Simmel, Gitlin
‘The more money becomes the sole center of interest,’ Simniel writes, ‘the more one discovers that honor and conviction, talent and virtue, beauty and
Richard Branson
I can honestly say that I have never gone into any business purely to make money. If that is the sole motive, then I
Catherine the Second (1729-1796) Russian Empress
I praise loudly; I blame softly.
Michael Jordan
I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning
Bertrand Russell
Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men this comes chiefly through