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Alain de Botton

"Most business meetings involve one party elaborately suppressing a wish to shout at the other: 'just give us the money'."

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Amber Hurdle

"I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin."

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Amber Hurdle

"We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?"

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Amber Hurdle

"Everyone loves the idea of "disruption" in business, but no one likes it when it happens to them."

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Amber Hurdle

"Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility."

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Amber Hurdle

"The investments you make into a brand, makes its name worth it."

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Amber Hurdle

"It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way."

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Amber Hurdle

"Make your brand memorable or risk fading out!"

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Amber Hurdle

"Marketing is safe. Sales is risky. UNLESS, marketing has done its job. Then sales is safe too."

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Amber Hurdle

"Buy land, they're not making it anymore."

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Amber Hurdle

"As a child, I used to wonder why markets in my locality were all situated near the main roads. I grew up a little to get the answer; " that business minded people can meet there easily!" Your dream must be situated where they can meet people!"

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Alain de Botton
"We don't need to be constantly reasonable in order to have good relationships; all we need to have mastered is the occasional capacity to acknowledge with good grace that we may, in one or two areas, be somewhat insane."

Relationship

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Alain de Botton
"We are tempted to believe that certain achievements and possessions will give us enduring satisfaction. We are invited to imagine ourselves scaling the steep cliff face of happiness in order to reach a wide, high plateau on which we will live out the rest of our lives; we are not reminded that soon after gaining the summit, we will be called down again into fresh lowlands of anxiety and desire."

Emotion

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Alain de Botton
"Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from."

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Alain de Botton
"Differ though we might with Christianity's view of what precisely our souls need, it is hard to discredit the provocative underlying thesis, which seems no less relevant in the secular realm than in the religious one--that we have within us a precious, childlike, vulnerable core which we should nourish and nurture on its turbulent journey through life."

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Alain de Botton
"Marriage: a deeply peculiar and ultimately unkind thing to inflict on anyone one claims to care for."

Relationship

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Alain de Botton
"Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough."

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Alain de Botton
"The death of marriage has been announced so often and would seem so normal, in a sense. So what's surprising is the sheer longevity and tenacity of this institution."

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Alain de Botton
"We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves."

Identity

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Alain de Botton
"Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself."

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"To grow interested in any piece of information, we need somewhere to 'put' it, which means some way of connecting it to an issue we already now how to care about."

Learning

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