“Could there be room for innovative methods that could potentially benefit those in the same position as Josephine Hart and countless others?”
— Maurice Saatchi
Co-Founder of Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising Agency

The quote archive

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A growing archive of 3,000+ moments, drawn from every interview.

We are more than we appear to be. The technology cannot be uninvented — I know, until I die, that we did that, and I was a key enabler of it.

— Victor Vescovo

Exploration starts with exploring yourself. There’s so much temptation for everyone to seek answers outside of themselves, when peace and leading a fulfilling life starts with self-knowledge and self-reflection.

— Victor Vescovo

The small act of paying attention to people is extraordinarily rewarding to every member of the team — and it’s amplified in an inverse way from their level on the hierarchy.

— Victor Vescovo

Never get into a vehicle where the fear of failure is greater than the fear of dying.

— Victor Vescovo

If you just stand up for your own values in all the things you do, big and small, you create the conditions for the possibility of collective action.

— Eric Ries

Every organisation is actually a little bubble of utopia. It’s somebody’s idea of the proper power relations between human beings. It’s a work of political philosophy, whether the person was aware of it or not.

— Eric Ries

Who would you rather die than betray? If it’s just shareholders, don’t expect anybody else to trust you.

— Eric Ries

What it means to make a profit is to maximise human flourishing. It just means you left the world better off than you found it.

— Eric Ries

We absolutely have to reclaim the word corruption to apply to any way of making money without creating value.”

— Eric Ries