Morning Briefings

Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she won’t suffer the way people do when they have a dream to follow. But when they look back–and at some point everyone looks back–she will hear her heart saying, ‘What have you done with the miracles that God planted in your days? What have you done with the talents God bestowed on you?’

– Paulo Coelho
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed.

– Abraham Lincoln

Eating cheese is another Hanukkah tradition. This is done in memory of the Jewish heroine Judith, who saved her village from attackers by feeding wine and cheese to General Holofernes until he became so drunk that he fell to the ground. She then seized his sword–and the day. The next morning, the leaderless troops fled in terror.

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factmonster.com

Rather than think of ethics as the benchmark against which behavior is measured, for many people ethics has come to be equated with something that inflicts pain on a company or some hefty sacrifice.

– Jeffrey L. Seglin
The Good, the Bad and Your Business: Choosing Right When Ethical Dilemmas Pull You Apart