"In general, an asset should be sold when it has greater value to a buyer. This happens when a buyer has a complimentary business or capability that would enable them to do more with that business. Many businesses we have exited were not failures, but had simply reached a point in their life cycle where they no longer provided a core capability or served as a platform for growth."

-- Charles Koch

#Business Quotes #Growth Quotes #Platforms Quotes

“All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not.”
“Animals are being exploited in such an unbelievable way; it's not acceptable. PETA is trying to get your attention, and they're successful at it. ... If you talk to people who grew up on a farm, they'll tell you that they had an experience where they were taking care of a cow, and one day their parents took it away and killed it. It's a torturous experience for them, and that's when they became hard. People are taught to be grown-up or whatever, and that's dumb. That bond they had with that cow or chicken was real.”
“It is only with distance that we are able to turn our powers of observation on ourselves, thus fashioning stories in which we are characters.”
“What if marriage is really about making us more like Christ, not so much about making us happy?”
“Just as there are rocks which receive the constant shock and spray, the battering of waves, so there are heads about which passions roar.”
“Relish the challenge of overcoming difficulties that would crush ordinary men...learn to suffer.”
“Actors make bad lovers. Their most important kiss is for the camera. Not in a superficial way, in a really deep way. They can only give everything if they know someone is going to shout cut!”
“What a man knows isn’t important. It’s what he is that counts”

Source : Jack Schaefer, Wendell Minor (2001). “Shane”, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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