Business

People will always vote with their wallets over their hearts. You can be the most honest and inspiring politician in the world, but if the electorate perceives the economy in peril there is no level of corruption that won’t get elected. – Dad

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. – Cyril Northcote Parkinson

Among the key management skills Tim Cook learned from Steve Jobs while working at Apple was the importance of not being married to past beliefs, a competency that Cook says few leaders possess. Jobs welcomed debates, relished being challenged, and valued those who were willing to admit they were wrong when new evidence emerged. – Tim Cook

If you don’t have money, banks won’t give you money. – Adel Ali, founder ArabicAir

Entrepreneur is a synonym for salesperson, and salesperson is the pedestrian term for storyteller. Pro tip: No startup makes sense. We (entrepreneurs) are all impostors who must deploy a fiction (a story) that captures the imagination and attracts capital to pull the future forward and turn rhyme into reason. No business I have started, at the moment of inception, made any sense … until it did. Or didn’t. The only way to predict the future is to make it. – Scott Galloway

Customers will remember the experience they have with a brand longer than they remember the price they paid. – Tiffani Bova, The Experience Mindset