"We do a lot of things for reasons besides profit motive. We want to leave the world better than we found it."

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Source : "Why Tim Cook Doesn't Care About 'The Bloody ROI'" by Steve Denning, www.forbes.com. March 7, 2014.

Tim Cook

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“How I feel about and behave toward myself is the basic determinant of most of my behavior. If I improve my self-regard, I will find that dozens of behaviors change automatically. If, for example, I increase my feelings of self-competence, I will probably be less defensive, less angered by criticism, less devastated if I do not get a raise, less anxious when I come to work, better able to make decisions, and more able to appreciate and praise other people.”
“In ten years [i.e., 1980] all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish.”
“Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love....”

Source : Thomas Traherne (2007). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.266, Cosimo, Inc.
“If you want to make something that's aggressive and challenging and peculiar and strange and trying to step outside of a traditional approach, some people aren't going to like it.”
“My mom made me think I was gorgeous. When I was younger she was like, 'Look at you! You're an angel. You sparkle!' And I was like, 'I do!' You believe your parents.”
“I really missed being in New Orleans, but I'm one of the lucky ones.”
“He who would prove all life, leaves it empty. To know the way of everything is to be left with the geometry of things and with the substance of nothing. To reduce the world to an equation is to leave it without head or feet.”
“I don't like human nature, but I do like human beings.”

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