“There are two ways to ruin any chances of leading a happy life. The first is to chase a goal twenty-four hours a day, day after day, and gladly give up all the little laughs and joys that life has ...”

“Thats the problem with any simple truthit always takes a gaggle of complete idiots or a team of all-knowing geniuses to miss it.”

“Nothing is illegal so long as you correct it before the SEC catches it.”

“Never lose time in sending the scapegoat to the slaughterhouse.”

“You know what happens at any magic show? When the magician says look here, look here, the audience looks only there and nowhere else. And thats exactly what happened at the earnings conference today.”

“There comes a time in everyones lifeand I do mean in everyones lifewhen you ask yourself what it is that youve been doing with your life. Sometimes you even realize that whatever youve been doing a...”

“If you hire people just because they can do a job, theyll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, theyll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.”

“My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. Tha...”

“Dont worry, Im not quitting. Ive decided Im going to stay andmake his life a living hell while I run his business into the ground.--Kim to Abe”

“The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to ...”

“You know what's truly weird about any financial crisis? We made it up. Currency, money, finance, they're all social inventions. When the sun comes up in the morning it's shining on the same physica...”

“If you go to Singapore or Amsterdam or Seoul or Buenos Aires or Islamabad or Johannesburg or Tampa or Istanbul or Kyoto, you'll find that the people differ wildly in the way they dress, in their ma...”

“So the hours are pretty good then?' he resumed.The Vogon stared down at him as sluggish thoughts moiled around in the murky depths.Yeah,' he said, 'but now you come to mention it, most of the actua...”

“Ninety percent of paid work is time-wasting crap. The world gets by on the other ten.”

“His introduction throws me. The only time I can envision "Hi, I'm a surgeon" as a fitting introduction is if I were on a gurney in a stark white room and a man wielding a scalpel was standing over ...”