Quotes from Corinne Maier

Money counts more than you think.

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.

Ethics is a detergent word, used time and time again to clean consciences without scrubbing.

Remember that work is not a place for self-fulfillment. If it were, you would know it.

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.

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.

the middle manager is doomed to remain just that. Once an office rat, always an office rat.

When you're 'recruiting' people in temporary positions for the firm (short-term contracts, free-lancers, etc.) treat them well: remember, they're the only ones who actually do any work.

Daddy, I don't like military parades. I never want to be like those people who march rank and file to music - they were given brains by mistake.

L'historiador Philippe Ariès ho formula de la següent manera: "El sentiment de família, el sentiment de classe i tal vegada el de raça apareixen com les manifestacions de la pròpia intolerància davant la diversitat i del propi patiment per la uniformitat".

Donuk ve yavan oldu?u halde, ayn? olan? yeniden üretmeye s?rt?n? dayam?? bir ülkeden daha ümit k?r?c? ne vard?r?

To respond to the question of the meaning of life by simply reproducing yourself is to shift the question to the next generation. To not respond at all, or to not even try, isn't that the worst kind of cowardice?

The historian Philippe Aries puts it like this: "Family feelings, feelings of class, and perhaps in some cases of race are manifestations of the same intolerance of diversity, of the same need for uniformity.

We live in a society of ants, where working and reproducing represent the ultimate objective of the human experience. Work is the opiate of the people; will children be their consolation? A society where life consists of earning a living and raising your kids is a society with no future, since it has no dreams. Having a child is the best possible way to avoid asking what the meaning of life is, as everything revolves around that child, who is a marvellous substitute for the existential quest.

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.