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For me there has never been an amount of money that makes it worth doing something that is not fun.

For me there has never been an amount of money that makes it worth doing something that is not fun.

Russell L. Ackoff
Fun, Amount

It is the satisfaction we derive from 'going there' in contrast to the satisfaction derived from 'getting there.' Recreation provides 'the pause that refreshes.' It recreates creators.

Russell L. Ackoff
Satisfaction, Recreation, Contrast
Russell L. Ackoff (1994). “The Democratic Corporation: A Radical Prescription for Recreating Corporate America and Rediscovering Success”, p.62, Oxford University Press

Omnicompetence,' the ability to obtain whatever one wants or needs, is an unattainable but continuously approachable ideal for all mankind - past, present, and future.

Russell L. Ackoff
Past, Needs, Unattainable

Most managers receive much more data (if not information) than they can possibly absorb even if they spend all of their time trying to do so. Hence they already suffer from an information overload.

Russell L. Ackoff
Data, Suffering, Trying
"Management Misinformation Systems". Management Sciences Vol. 14, No. 4, (p. 148), December 1967.

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