Rather than theorize about productivity in the abstract, he visited working factories—mostly small at that time—whose owners were putting an altogether new concept into
Quotes
Silicon Valley capitalism per Garcia Martinez
The reality is, Silicon Valley capitalism is very simple: Investors are people with more money than time. Employees are people with more time than
Facebook’s ability to change
Facebook’s redeeming quality—the magical tendency that has saved it in the past, and will save it in the future—is its ability to rapidly adapt
Dale Carnegie, persuading vs. substance
Book Review: ‘Self-Help Messiah’ by Steven Watts Dale Carnegie advocated a positive attitude and kept a file titled ‘Damned Fool Things I Have Done.’
Charles Wallace
William Wilgus
builder of Grand Central Station, largest building project in history of country, with no public funding, on budget and head of schedule
Federalist by Hamilton
Hamilton supervised the entire Federalist project. He dreamed up the idea, enlisted the participants, wrote the overwhelming bulk of the essays, and oversaw the
Founding Fathers
Political life in the young republic now presented a strange spectacle. The intellectual caliber of the leading figures surpassed that of any future political
harriett beecher stowe – senility
In a letter to Oliver Wendell Holmes she wrote: “I make no mental effort of any sort; my brain is tired out. It was
Raffles
His was the time of long everything- long journeys, long speeches, long dinners,long sermons, long poems, long scholarly papers, long book reviews, long personal