"Shareholder value theory - the destructive idea that companies should be run solely for the benefit of shareholders - has led to financialized businesses that do not invest in the areas that will lead to future growth or the invention of useful new products."

-- Mariana Mazzucato

#Running Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Growth Quotes

“If you are truly innovating, you don't have a prototype you can refer to.”
“I just want to keep feeding people and letting them have little tidbits. I'm not sure what that is exactly, but I have a lot of great ideas. I just move organically in my life, and it's always worked.”
“An aware parent loves all children he or she interacts with - for you are a caretaker for those moments in time.”
“Intolerance has always been one of the cornerstones of Christianity - the glorious heritage of the Inquisition. It's no coincidence that most of my abusive mail - sentencing me to exquisite Oriental tortures and relegating me to hell-fire and damnation -comes from self-admitted Catholics.”
“The Lord won't confirm a lie.”
“Culture is public, because meaning is”

Source : Clifford Geertz (1973). “The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays”, p.12, Basic Books
“Thank God for the Saudis and Prince Bandar, and for our Qatari friends,”
“... Wild Bill had his faults, grievous ones, perhaps ... He would get drunk, gamble, and indulge in the general licentiousness characteristic of the border in the early days, yet even when full of the vile libel of the name of whiskey which was dealt over the bars at exorbitant prices, he was gentle as a child, unless aroused to anger by intended insults. ... He was loyal in his friendship, generous to a fault, and invariably espoused the cause of the weaker against the stronger one in a quarrel.”

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