Delivering Happiness a Path to Profits, Passion and Purpose

“Another common trap that many marketers fall into is focusing too much on trying to figure out how to generate a lot of buzz, when they should really be focused on building engagement and trust.

I can tell you that my mom has zero buzz, but when she says something, I listen.”

from Delivering Happiness a Path to Profits, Passion and Purpose by Tony Hsieh pg. 144

Delivering Happiness a Path to Profits, Passion and Purpose

“Let your employees take risks and try new things. Some will work and some won’t and that is okay. Let your employees bring all of themselves to their job.”

from Delivering Happiness a Path to Profits, Passion and Purpose by Tony Hsieh pg. 171

Delivering Happiness a Path to Profits, Passion and Purpose

“It was a valuable lesson. We learned that we should never outsource our core competency.”

from Delivering Happiness a Path to Profits, Passion and Purpose by Tony Hsieh pg. 119

Delivering Happiness a Path to Profits, Passion and Purpose

“There was something alluring about being involved in something where the sole purpose was to create an experience and emotional journey for people, and then to have noting but memories left afterword to hold on to.”

from Delivering Happiness a Path to Profits, Passion and Purpose by Tony Hsieh pg. 19

The Girl Who Played with Fire

“Salander felt like a bag of bananas that had been left too long in the sun.”

from The Girl Who Played with Fire by Steig Larsson pg. 60

The Last Olympian

“…his hug was like getting hit by a tractor, not the entire farm.”

from The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan pg. 344

The Last Olympian

“The horses were living shadows, fashioned from darkness.”

from The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan pg. 316

The Last Olympian

“Nico drew his sword – three feet of wicked sharp Stygian iron, black as a nightmare.”

from The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan pg. 315

The Professor and the Madman

“The “English dictionary,” in the sense that we commonly use the phrase today – as an alphabetically arranged list of English words, together with an explanation of their meanings – is a relatively new invention.  Four hundred years ago there was no such convenience available on any English bookshelf.

There was none available, for instance, when William Shakespeare was writing his plays.  Whenever he came to use an unusual word, or to set a word in what seemed an unusual context – and his plays were extraordinarily rich with examples – he had almost no way to check the propriety of what he was about to do.”

The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester pg. 80

My Sister’s Keeper

“When I first became a parent I used to lie in bed at night and imagine the most horrible succession of maladies: the bite of a jellyfish, the taste of a poisonous berry, the smile of a dangerous stranger, the dive into a shallow pool. There are so many ways that a child can be harmed that it seems nearly impossible that one person alone could succeed at keeping him safe. As my children got older, the hazards only changed: inhaling glue, playing with matches, small pink pills sold behind the bleachers of the middle school. You can stay up all night and still not count the ways to lose the people you love.”

My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult pg.229