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Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business
Even outside of work, you are proposing to consume people’s most precious resource: time. Making the effort to consider how you want your guests, and yourself, to be altered by the experience is what you owe people as a good steward of that resource.
Priya Parker • The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business,
Timothy Ferriss • Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World

Danny Meyer the restaurateur has called ABCD: “always be collecting dots, so that you can always be connecting dots.” Dots or breadcrumbs, if your whole life is oriented around that collection, which mine is, then you're always preparing.
Frederik Gieschen • A Compulsive Search for the Most Interesting People with Patrick O'Shaughnessy - Compound Manual

Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect
- Will Guidara, unreasonable hospitality