A man believes in providence because to do otherwise would force him to see his life as an arbitrary affair, conducted by the freakish
Quotes
Tim Parks
This is the contradiction behind so much mental activity in the West. We love money and what we imagine it can do and buy,
Blaise Pascal
They do not know that they seek only the chase and not the quarry.
Hugh O’Neill
Men like sports because they’re simple. Any fool can tell who won, who lost, who got the decisive hit.
George Pelecanos
It wasn’t money that kept Nigel in the game. It was the power, of course, and the fear that he would lose what he
George Dayton, founder of Dayton Hudson and later Target Corp.
Business integrity can be defined to be: Doing things as you agreed to do them. Doing things when you agreed to do them. Doing
Victor Robinsoll
There is much satisfaction in work well done, but there can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands.
Suketu Mehta
The Rent Act was an institutionalized expropriation of private property. Democracies have a weakness: If a bad law has enough money or people behind
Suketu Mehta
Bombay survives on the scam; we are all complicit. A man who has made his money through a scam is more respected than a
Suketu Mehta
‘The dregs at the bottom have become the scum at the top.’ Gerson da Cunha, a civic activist in Bombay.