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.

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.

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.

We should not scorn those whose fear is greater than our own.

Sherlock [Holmes] is on the side of the angels, but don't think he's one of them. He uses similar means, but it seems to be for a better purpose, one would hope.

By working in the morning, I find a sense of peace; it's isolated peace, but I can definitely be in touch with my feelings, and then I just start.

I live in Spain. Oscars are something that are on TV Sunday night. Basically, very late at night. You don't watch, you just read the news after who won or who lost.

Hustle, Loyalty, Respect.

Can we ever have too much of a good thing?

I really enjoy Martin Sheen - he is very unexpectedly funny, very quick.

To the end of history, social orders will probably destroy themselves in an effort to prove they are indestructible.

Quotologists encounter happy surprises, bright books by faded authors, treasures hidden under dust.