Corinne Maier Quotes

any effort at large-scale reorganization - that is, any project spanning more than two years and, more generally, anything that has not already been done - is inevitably doomed to failure.

Remember that work is not a place for self-fulfillment. If it were, you would know it.

Ethics is a bit like culture: the less one has, the more one flaunts it.

Only communist regimes have churned out more jargon than modern business.

Ethics is a detergent word, used time and time again to clean consciences without scrubbing.

Never, under any circumstances, accept a position of responsibility. You will be forced to work harder with no other benefits than a few extra bucks - 'peanuts,' as they say, if that.

Money counts more than you think.

Manager' is a title, not a function. It's better to be one than not. Since you spend all day doing the job of the person above you, the higher up you are, the less you have to do.

Corporations never actually mention 'money'; that would be vulgar. They prefer such words as 'turnover,' 'profit,' 'salary,' 'revenue,' 'budget,' 'premium,' and 'savings,' all much more refined.

The religion of the corporate world is novelty. What is new is always right.

Business and its logic of productivity have become the reference point in a society that thinks marketing every time it opens its mouth.

the middle manager is doomed to remain just that. Once an office rat, always an office rat.

When you're 'recruiting' people in temporary positions for the firm (short-term contracts, free-lancers, etc.) treat them well: remember, they're the only ones who actually do any work.

Daddy, I don't like military parades. I never want to be like those people who march rank and file to music - they were given brains by mistake.