The real killers in the business world aren’t the ones who aim for the top, it’s the ones who aim for two notches below the top.
School is such an encouraging and safe environment. It’s filled with idealism and just really working on your craft. When you enter the business world – where art meets commerce – it can become quite depressing.
From time to time, you have seminal personalities who really change the way the world sees itself – people like Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela. Warren Buffett is that kind of person in the business world.
There are certainly more people in the business world who would score high in the psychopathic dimension than in the general population. You’ll find them in any organization where, by the nature of one’s position, you have power and control over other people and the opportunity to get something.
No greater privilege than I had as a soldier and then as a spymaster and to some degree now in the business world.
If I weren’t fighting, I’d be in the business world.
I don’t really read ‘business books,’ and I didn’t think ‘The Paradox of Choice’ was a business book. I’m very surprised and gratified that the business world thought it was one.
I know in the business world, some women won’t speak if there are men in meetings for fear of being seen as too assertive.
What kind of business world are we living in?
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