Cartoon: Profits are down. Our senior management blames the weak economy/So they’re saying that profits went up because of great management and down because
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Scott Adams
I don’t how pyramid schemes got such a bad reputation. I would think that convincing people to give you money while doing little or
Ralph Gardner Jr.
Its not a matter of how good you are, says Anna, a public relations exec, still trying to fathom why she’s successful and her
David Rocker, Shot seller
I had met the increasingly apoplectic Rcoker years earlier, in 1996, as he unsuccessfully battled AOL by harping on its shoddy accounting practices. He
Jason Epstein
Book publishing is not a conventional business. It more closely resembles a vocation or an amateur sport. In which the primary goal is the
Confucius
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Aldous Huxley
A childlike man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a
Tom Morris
Nothing is more endangered in the modern world than the powerful combination of hard work toward meaningful goals joined with an exuberant embrace of
Kenneth Alsop
In work, the greatest satisfaction lies – the satisfaction of stretching yourself, using your abilities and making them expand, and knowing that you have