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

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.

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.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

Our children are watching us live, and what we ARE shouts louder than anything we can say.

There was nothing for it now but to throw himself on Campos's mercy, and it had been Mr. Rebeck's experience of mercy that it had a tendency to buckle under the weight of a human soul.

I started smoking to lose weight. After I dropped that lung I felt pretty good.

The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it.

I think everything happens as it's supposed to. I don't want to force anything. I want it to be so authentic that it's seamless.

No matter what happens, you always need someone else to look after you at the end.

Love and honesty are the things that make a good wife and mother.

God invented mankind because he loved silly stories. Ralph Steadman I like being absurd.

Humor is wit and love.