Quotes from Stanley Bing

It's damned hard to fire another human being face-to-face, which is why you sort of have to congratulate Ted Turner, who took it upon himself to fire his own son from the family business—over dinner.

Do you mind if I sit back a little? Because your breath is bad—it really is. —DONALD TRUMP, TO LARRY KING, ON CNN'S "LARRY KING

But if you're serious about the path to enlightenment and lucrative stock options, go quietly with us in the noise and haste as we take a look at our lives and ask the one pertinent question for those who wish to conquer the twenty-first century: "What would Machiavelli do?" Answer? He would play to win.

To live true to the vision of the master, we must be as selfish, narcissistic, manipulative, driven, and creative in getting what we want as we can be, not just in our important business actions, but where it really counts: in our hearts.

It was like being a fly on the wall at a meeting. JACK WELCH ON HIS JOB AT AGE TWELVE AS A CADDY FOR LOCAL BUSINESSMEN AT A SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS, COUNTRY CLUB

Even now, and you can look at me: Am I a savage person? My conscience is clear. —POL POT The eradication of conscience is one of the toughest things you're going to have to learn. Not everyone can do it.

When lightning is obviously about to strike a certain tree, one must consider sitting under another.

Reading my way all the way through Sherlock Holmes gave me a lifelong love for crime and detective fiction.

Anger is a fuel. You need fuel to launch a rocket. But if all you have is fuel without any complex internal mechanism directing it, you don't have a rocket. You have a bomb