Peter Kindersley quotes

Through the picture, I see reality; through words, I understand it.
-- Peter Kindersley

#Business #Reality

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.

People do make judgments of trust on appearance - in the real world and online.

If you are looking for a kindly, well-to-do older gentleman who is no longer interested in sex, take out an ad in The Wall Street Journal.

Art is not the spiritual side of business.

We need to move beyond the demonisation of overpaid traders ... In finance and economics, ill-designed policy is a more powerful force for harm than individual greed or error.

Achievement results from work realizing ambition.

Get up now and go and find Robert Kilroy-Silk. Smile in a warm, friendly sort of way, then punch him on the nose. Now go and find Robert on television, despite my best endeavours, this is still relatively easy to do. Wait for a close-up, same smile, and punch him on the nose. If you followed the instructions carefully, you will have noticed a distinct difference. On the one hand, you were suffused with a sense of public-spirited righteousness; on the other, you're probably dribbling blood. That's the difference between reality in life and reality on television.

There is a beautiful and life-enhancing alternative outlook that offers insight, consolation, inspiration and meaning, which has nothing to do with religion, and everything to do with the best, most generous, most sympathetic understanding of human reality.

Socializing on the internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.