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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f657482 | Men, women, children - all have souls. Tables. Rocks. Wheels. Cups. All likewise have souls. Spirit lives in matter. All matter. Where else would it live? | matter soul | Mike Carey | |
| 2a00259 | It's a measure of how far I've come that I didn't bother to say, "This is impossible." | Mike Carey | ||
| 52a9c82 | Ti, kdo veri ve svobodnou vuli, jsou ty nejlepsi loutky. | Carey Mike | ||
| 7ac825f | Far as I can see, we mostly exist as *ideas* in each other's heads. The way *you* see me. The way my *boss* sees me. The way the *waitress* at Lindy's sees me. | Mike Carey | ||
| 357c1ff | I will withhold death from you as long as you obey my one command. Bow down to no one. Worship no one. Not even me. Do you understand? | Mike Carey | ||
| 9a69359 | But Tom was not thinking about magic or struggle or the rest of his journey. | Mike Carey | ||
| 10e5b4c | You move on. You move back. On because you're always getting older, back because there's always a set of habits and routines to catch you and suck you back in when your guard is down. | habits moving-on | Mike Carey | |
| ea71f6f | Cara terbaik untuk memangkasnya adalah membiarkannya tumbuh hingga berbuah dan kemudian menghukumnya dengan keras. Ia tidak melihat hal ini sebagai kekejaman, hanya sebagai pengasuhan yang baik, sama seperti memukuli anjing untuk melatihnya tidak memgotori lantai. | the-steel-seraglio | Mike Carey | |
| ffa3da8 | I could dodge the kick, but the stable door was already down - and I hadn't even realised it until I saw the splinters. | Mike Carey | ||
| b9427bb | You're a vampire, Richie. And I've got a gun the size of Nebraska. What's the worst that could happen? | the-cabal tommy-taylor | Mike Carey | |
| 1e27f29 | There *is* no mortal sin. There are only *souls*, lost in a maze that someone *else* has made for them. | Mike Carey | ||
| 7e71dc9 | During that time, the young man met and married a beautiful young woman who had completed her law degree from Columbia University but had decided to pursue her MBA afterward because she had no desire to practice law. Who does? Still, they were happy. | Stanley Bing | ||
| 79d3684 | While in their conference room perusing some papers, he came upon a middle manager who was being yelled at by a senior vice president of finance. The poor man's shoulders were bent with anguish, his eyes were red and runny with sadness and humiliation, his hands shook, and he could scarcely raise his voice to defend himself. | Stanley Bing | ||
| ba60c78 | Either I get Frank's job as president, or I'm going to leave the company. JEFFREY KATZENBERG TO DISNEY CHAIRMAN MICHAEL EISNER LESS THEN THIRTY-SIX HOURS AFTER THE DEATH OF DISNEY NUMBER TWO, FRANK WELLS | Stanley Bing | ||
| 79f388a | When a general gave unwanted advice at a meeting, Saddam ordered him to stand, and shot him six times. --FIRST-PERSON ACCOUNT, SADDAM HUSSEIN WEB HIT | Stanley Bing | ||
| 7b78715 | Don't you ever turn your back on me when I'm talking. CITIGROUP SENIOR EXECUTIVE JAMIE DIMON TO THE COMPANY'S VICE CHAIRMAN, DERYCK MAUGHAN, AT A BLACK-TIE DINNER. WHEN MAUGHAN TURNED AWAY FROM HIM, DIMON GRABBED HIM BY THE SHOULDERS AND SPUN HIM AROUND, POPPING A BUTTON FROM THE LAPEL OF HIS DINNER JACKET | Stanley Bing | ||
| 2a4fcc7 | Throughout our time here on earth, we all have a choice. To do things the mediocre way . . . or Machiavelli's way. | Stanley Bing | ||
| 3ede0a0 | But if you're serious about the path to enlightenment and lucrative stock options, go quietly with us in the noise and haste as we take a look at our lives and ask the one pertinent question for those who wish to conquer the twenty-first century: "What would Machiavelli do?" Answer? He would play to win." | Stanley Bing | ||
| 18b192a | To live true to the vision of the master, we must be as selfish, narcissistic, manipulative, driven, and creative in getting what we want as we can be, not just in our important business actions, but where it really counts: in our hearts. | Stanley Bing | ||
| 100a23a | It was like being a fly on the wall at a meeting. JACK WELCH ON HIS JOB AT AGE TWELVE AS A CADDY FOR LOCAL BUSINESSMEN AT A SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS, COUNTRY CLUB | Stanley Bing | ||
| c3f555f | Even now, and you can look at me: Am I a savage person? My conscience is clear. --POL POT The eradication of conscience is one of the toughest things you're going to have to learn. Not everyone can do it. | Stanley Bing | ||
| 5af15ae | When lightning is obviously about to strike a certain tree, one must consider sitting under another. | Stanley Bing | ||
| 86698a2 | The real Machiavellian, like the infant, believes there is nothing bigger or more important than him or herself. To succeed, you will need to achieve that view, to return to the liberating egocentrism of the selfish, amoral child who wants what he wants and permits nothing to get in its way. | Stanley Bing | ||
| 8740b37 | It is believed that Revson is the author of the oft-quoted statement, uttered during one long working weekend to his subordinates, "If you don't come in on Saturday, don't bother to come in on Sunday." | Stanley Bing | ||
| 24f836c | The executives that ran Lehman Bros. into the ground several years ago had a macho culture that abhorred personal time. One executive was pressured to go to the office while his wife was actually delivering a baby.[18] Whether such assiduity resulted in a better work product has now been pretty definitively ascertained. | Stanley Bing | ||
| 8d75cd3 | The beauty part of business warfare, unless your business is importing cocaine from Colombia or covering up a nuclear fuel spill in the Midwest, is that there is rarely any actual blood involved. Maybe that's why we can forgive Sun Tzu now and then for being such a careful sissy-boy. His guys were playing with live ammo, not cell phones and BlackBerrys. | Stanley Bing | ||
| 43a9b10 | In terms of their power over other adults, the sheer force of their monomaniacal self-interest and their utter lack of shame, they may be compared to only one other group of humans on the planet: babies. | Stanley Bing | ||
| 0f0d262 | WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH. The Three Slogans of the Party George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four | Stanley Bing | ||
| d09d32c | He had come a long way to this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so close he could hardly fail to grasp it." The quotation is from The Great Gatsby," | Stanley Bing | ||
| b5267bf | Clear spirits destroy karma. Brown spirits build karma. | Stanley Bing | ||
| 301cb34 | The ways to find one's way to Enlightenment are many. There is prayer and fasting, and some try that to great effect, but that road is severe, particularly to people with electronic scheduling software and a lot of business lunches as part of the general requirements of their jobs, not to mention drinks after work, and pretty soon fasting, if not prayer, is out the window. | Stanley Bing | ||
| e61c6ec | Fear is like fire. If you don't know how to handle it, it can kill you. But if you use it correctly, it can warm your house. | Stanley Bing | ||
| 9f84295 | Elephants are therefore left only the option of being afraid of little things that sneak up and surprise them. Such things include mice, loud noises, spreadsheet surprises and sudden disappointments, food that is on the menu but unavailable, unannounced visitors, word of the displeasure of a higher executive, bad news about the effect of NutraSweet on the human kidney. | Stanley Bing | ||
| 9aea723 | I believe the principles of structural revolution are the same," Lou Gerstner pointed out in the middle of his positive transformation of IBM. "First, it takes personal commitment on the part of the CEO. This is not a job you can delegate. Second, it takes a willingness to confront and expel the people and the organizations that are throwing up roadblocks to the changes you consider critical." -- | Stanley Bing | ||
| 7f717d8 | It's damned hard to fire another human being face-to-face, which is why you sort of have to congratulate Ted Turner, who took it upon himself to fire his own son from the family business--over dinner. | Stanley Bing | ||
| fb82018 | Do you mind if I sit back a little? Because your breath is bad--it really is. --DONALD TRUMP, TO LARRY KING, ON CNN'S "LARRY KING" | Stanley Bing | ||
| 5576a6b | There is no such thing as a merger. There are only buyers and sellers. Those who are bought are in danger when they have to bend over to pick up the soap. That's good to know. | Stanley Bing | ||
| c27b582 | Bill Clinton has perhaps been the most amazing practitioner of truth management in public life. He's had to be. Beset by enemies willing to use any tool to do him in, he let the truth out like a fly fisherman plays out a line, delicately, artfully, with infinite finesse, never emitting more truth than necessary, struggling mightily to tell us what he could without admitting defeat. | Stanley Bing | ||
| b1cf6bb | It depends on what your definition of 'is' is," he told his tormentors, and many Americans shook their heads in wonder, not only at the ridiculousness of the statement, but at the tenacity and toughness of a true Machiavelli who would not, could not, let his enemies use their version of the truth to defeat him." | Stanley Bing | ||
| 967318c | Cows do not sell each other hay when they are hungry. Monkeys do not sell each other bananas. Only human beings can create the perception in other human beings that, even though they have showered, they still smell bad and need an underarm deodorant to set things right. | Stanley Bing | ||
| cd2db6b | When I was a young man I worked for a very good company that was very well run by very nice people who knew what they were doing. There was a lot of affection and we made everybody a lot of money. We would have walked into fire for Harold, our Chairman, and Carl, our President. Then they sold our division, and all that firewalking really did take place. The ultrasenior managers did fine, because they had one purpose--to get out of it with a.. | Stanley Bing | ||
| 0d3ff4a | Because business, in many ways, is like politics or beauty pageants. The talented do, at times, rise to the top. But those with guts, gumption, unbounded energy, hot desire, and the ability to push people around do very well, too, even the ugly ones. | Stanley Bing | ||
| 45a072d | Are you willing to die for yourself? If you want to be, you have to be able to take the very first step toward attaining that capability. You have to be willing to live for yourself. | Stanley Bing | ||
| 0746edf | The worst things are done not by people who believe they are doing wrong, but by those who are convinced that they walk with the hand of God on one shoulder. | Stanley Bing |