Gilt Quotes
The shine that covers what's underneath.
Directors chasing anything lavish, a woman shaped to fit a gilt cage from infancy - these quotes treat gilt as decoration that can trap as easily as it dazzles, echoing the vanity found in Beauty.
I think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word 'lavish' and everything being magnificent.
Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly. The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man...
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Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands.
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Favouring employment versus the financial markets is a decent policy; certainly not beneficial for the currency or the gilt market, but beneficial for the people.
When I was working at Gilt, a lot of people at the time - this is back in 2009; Gilt launched in 2007 - were making their first fashion purchases online and at a discount.
Consider the social proof of a line of people standing behind a velvet rope, waiting to get into a club. The line makes most people walking by want to find out what's worth the wait. The digital equivalent of the...
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There's a warning about idols too: touch them and the gilt comes off in your hands. Yet in business, gilt signs and politeness are called the best capital anyone can invest, proof the same shine cuts both ways.
