Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Quotes and Some Thoughts

I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.
Jay Gould

The sad truth is today  half or more of the workers are gleefully attacking the others without getting a thing in return other than getting roundly FUCKED!!
 
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?
Don Marquis
 
Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.
Harold S. Geneen
 
Management must manage!
Harold S. Geneen
 
Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
Laurence J. Peter

A variation on the "Peter Principle".
 
It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs.
Ron Livingston
 
I have found this last quote to be true from personal experience.

5 comments:

  1. When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?
    Don Marquis

    I would add...hard work never got one anywhere...kiss ass, politics and down-right immorality would be the more direct route.

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  2. It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs.

    Over the years I think I was only fired twice, and it didn't bother me a damn bit, I was already making plans to move on anyway.

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  3. I don't often see much that I agree with, so I want to speak up when I do. Overall, a good batch of quotes.

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  4. I've been haunted by the Jay Gould one lately.

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