Irony irritated him. There was no place for irony in marketing: it made people want to look for deeper meaning. There was no place in marketing for that, either.
To succeed in sales, you need skills—not skills entirely consistent with moral integrity and emotional well-being, but skills nevertheless.
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Civilizations rose and fell; what caused them to be remembered was not their contribution to knowledge or culture, not even the size of their empires, but rather how much force they extorted upon the...
A woman appeared and began to generate tea and coffee
With Lola, everything was solvable. She was my independent variable.
These tests, though, were making her feel like a moron.
It was funny how as soon as you knew there was something better, what you had seemed unbearable.
I have nothing and no one but you, and you're useless. That's not a personal commentary. It's a statement of fact.
I guess it's always uncomfortable to discover you're not as individual as you thought. But it really bothered me. From one perspective, I was an independent animal, exercising free will in order to el...
I don't play the lottery. I don't care what my horoscope says. I think most things about the world could be improved if people thought more about what they're doing. When someone gets upset with their...
Every story written is marks upon a page The same marks, repeated, only differently arranged
Blind tastete ich auf dem Nachttisch herum, und meine Finger schoben sich zwischen Romane, die ich nicht mehr las, weil man einfach nicht zurück konnte, wenn man erst mal mit E-Books angefangen hatte.
And I, methinks, am gone astray In trackless wastes and lone.
After a while, he sat. She leaned her head on his shoulder. She felt very close to him. I promisenot to turn you into my thought slave, she said, and felt him smile a little. But she had thought about...
This isn't an accident; this happens because to people at the top, the scariest thing is how many people there are below. They need to watch us. They need to monitor what we're thinking. It's the only...
Stop believing what you want to believe. It’s unbecoming
She threw off her coat and hefted the machine gun concealed inside it. It was a Vektor SS77: heavy and awkward, but capable of nine hundred rounds a minute. Four steps to her right took her out of the...
Sales is a business of relationships, and you must cultivate customers with tenderness and love, like cabbages in winter, even if the customer is an egomaniacal asshole you want to hit with a shovel.
Last month we had to sit through a presentation on eliminating redundancy, and it was a bunch of PowerPoint slides, plus a guy reading out what was on the slides, and then he gave us all hard copies.