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.

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.

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.

When people feel trusted, they'll begin to understand they are contributors--and you'll get great ideas and happy people.

More than power is respect. Fortunate are those who command it.

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Reality confounds image.

I like to post positive content, and I like to try and make people smile. That's why those videos are popular. I don't fake it.

The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.

The other person's presence ultimately is the same as your presence, because it is in presence that there is true meeting.

England as a culture has endured so much more than America has as a culture, so it's given them a different perspective.

Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude; it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend.

The uncluttered arena grants every living thing its unique existence. Including me.