"When people tap into this politics of resentment, it usually ends ugly."

-- John Avlon

#People Quotes #Ugly Quotes #Resentment Quotes

“Am I about to feel really, really stupid?”
“I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers...”
“I started writing about New Mexico in an autobiography class I was taking for school, and realized that it was very inspiring place for me.”
“I'm not a conservative or a free market advocate or a Republican because, you know, I want people to like me.”

Source : "Libre Initiative Spreads Free Market Ideology To Latino Voters". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. September 13, 2016.
“Phresine showed him where he could sleep, in an interior room with no windows, a narrow bed, and a washstand. There were chests stacked along one wall, and Costis guessed the dismal spot was probably a closet cleaned out to make room for him. Hard to believe the royal apartments, so lavish elsewhere, would otherwise have such a plain corner. Expecting better of royal closets, Costis went to bed disappointed.”
“I have observed several hundred salespeople who were taught to use deceptive practices like 'bait and switch' and encouraged to play negotiation games with customers. They were so stressed by this behavior that they suffered from a high incidence of alcohol and substance abuse, divorce, job-jumping, and low productivity. In the same industry, I have observed countless people who had been taught to sell with high integrity. Ironically, their customer satisfaction, profit margins, and salesperson retention were significantly higher.”

Source : Ron Willingham (2009). “Integrity Selling for the 21st Century: How to Sell the Way People Want to Buy”, p.13, Crown Business
“Adam Smith was aware of the way that economic interests could have a distorting and destructive effect both on the market and on politics.”
“Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.”

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