... the wife of an executive would be a better wife had she been a secretary first. As a secretary, you learn to adjust to the bos...s's moods. Many marriages would be happier if the wife would do that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 am and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 pm to make th...is molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished before lunch.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In a large university, there are as many deans and executive heads as there are schools and departments. Their relations to one an...other are intricate and periodic; in fact, "galaxy" is too loose a term: it is a planetarium of deans with the President of the University as a central sun. One can see eclipses, inner systems, and oppositions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business..., he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perf...ectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable... and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Consider Ireland.... You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest exe...cutive in the world. That is the Irish Question.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the... healthy attitude of human nature. A boy is in the parlor what the pit is in the playhouse; independent; irresponsible; looking out from his corner on such people and facts as pass by, he tries and sentences them on their merits, in the swift, summary way of boys, as good, bad, interesting, silly, eloquent, troublesome. He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests: he gives an independent, genuine verdict.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »