“The lucky person walks down the street, sees the £5 note, picks it up, goes into the coffee shop, and sits next to the businessperson, they have a conversation, exchange cards, and leave thinking they've potentially had a great opportunity. The unlucky person ignores the money, and sits next to the person without making conversation.”— Christian Busch
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A growing archive of 3,000+ moments, drawn from every interview.
The key component of bravery is integrity. What I saw growing up was the reality that people would often give their integrity to make life more comfortable in the short term; but guess what, that leads to your integrity being chipped away until you are left with nothing.
— Rose McGowanActress & #MeToo activist who exposed Harvey Weinstein harassment
Individuality is my biggest fight, not #MeToo. People need to realise their own power, their own freedom, and their own ability to be better.
— Rose McGowanActress & #MeToo activist who exposed Harvey Weinstein harassment
People in power live in fear of their power being taken away, and they fight like bears in a cage that are being backed into a corner. I had no idea how hard those in power would fight me, and it's an extraordinarily difficult thing to be on the receiving end of.
— Rose McGowanActress & #MeToo activist who exposed Harvey Weinstein harassment
In postmodernism, there are no absolute truths; everything is relative, of course other than the one absolute truth that there are no absolute truths. This is a form of intellectual terrorism, nihilism.
— Gad SaadEvolutionary Psychologist & Author Known for Consumer Behavior Research
Our mate choices are the ultimate form of consumer choice. I can pretty much fit most of our purposeful behaviours under the umbrella of consumption.
— Gad SaadEvolutionary Psychologist & Author Known for Consumer Behavior Research
I argue that the ecosystem where idea pathogens originate from is the university; it takes intellectuals to come up with some of the most moronic ideas possible.
— Gad SaadEvolutionary Psychologist & Author Known for Consumer Behavior Research
Humans can be parasitized by actual brain worms, but also by idea pathogens that cause them to behave in profoundly maladaptive ways.
— Gad SaadEvolutionary Psychologist & Author Known for Consumer Behavior Research
I can't advertise chewing gum to my children because it's unethical, but I can feed them all sorts of narratives that will have a profound impact on their personal trajectories. It's quite an extraordinarily hypocritical position.
— Gad SaadEvolutionary Psychologist & Author Known for Consumer Behavior Research
The primacy of overtly scientific approaches to understanding life has come at a tremendous cost; in some ways we see the world in shades of grey rather than in full colour.
— Dr. Jordan B. PetersonClinical Psychologist, Author of "12 Rules for Life," Public Intellectual
We are meaning driven – it's not enough for us to what there is, we need to know why.
— Dr. Jordan B. PetersonClinical Psychologist, Author of "12 Rules for Life," Public Intellectual
We are hard wired through our biology to understand: what there is, what to do about what there is, that there is a difference between knowing what there is and knowing what to do about what there is and what the difference is.
— Dr. Jordan B. PetersonClinical Psychologist, Author of "12 Rules for Life," Public Intellectual
The world can be validly construed as a forum for action, or as a place of things. It is this distinction between the physical (a place of things) and metaphysical (a forum for action) that typifies the difference, as far as we are aware, between us and other species.
— Dr. Jordan B. PetersonClinical Psychologist, Author of "12 Rules for Life," Public Intellectual
Not in our wildest dreams did we ever think Infosys could grow as big as it did. This was a different world, a different era.
— Kris GopalkrishnanCo-Founder and Former CEO of Infosys, Indian IT Pioneer
When a customer sees that a company from India is performing in the financial markets better than their local partner, their attention is caught. We leveraged the financial markets for building brand, for competing in the marketplace.
— Kris GopalkrishnanCo-Founder and Former CEO of Infosys, Indian IT Pioneer
We are first generation entrepreneurs, with middle class values, coming from middle class backgrounds, we never expected to be so wealthy! Our first reaction therefore is to share.
— Kris GopalkrishnanCo-Founder and Former CEO of Infosys, Indian IT Pioneer
Scaling any business is about creating a model, debugging the model, making sure you understand the ingredients that need to be scaled up, and making sure you have a process to scale. All of this needs to be wrapped-up in a financial model that allows the scale to be funded.
— Kris GopalkrishnanCo-Founder and Former CEO of Infosys, Indian IT Pioneer