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"Books are, let's face it, better than everything else."

- Nick Hornby

Inspiration

"Books are, let's face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go fifteen rounds in the ring against the best that any other art form had to offer, then books would win pretty much every time."

- Nick Hornby

Inspiration

"Books are, let’s face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go fifteen rounds in the ring against the best that any other art form had to offer, then books would win pretty much every time."

- Nick Hornby

Inspiration

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"It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Efficiency

"There’s a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across."

- Rick Rubin

Efficiency

"Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all."

- Peter Drucker

Efficiency

"If you measure it, it will improve."

- Seth Godin

Efficiency

"Good customer service costs less than bad customer service."

- Sally Gronow

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