Corinne Maier Quotes

#1. 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.

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#2. The religion of the corporate world is novelty. What is new is always right.

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#3. Money counts more than you think.

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#4. The middle manager is doomed to remain just that. Once an office rat, always an office rat.

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#5. We live in a world of excess: too many kinds of coffee, too many magazines, too many types of bread, too many digital recordings of Beethoven's Ninth, too many choices of rearview mirrors on the latest Renault. Sometimes you say to yourself: It's too much, it's all too much.

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#6. 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.

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#7. 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.

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#8. 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.

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#9. 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.

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#10. Business and its logic of productivity have become the reference point in a society that thinks marketing every time it opens its mouth.

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#11. Although the typist has disappeared, her work has not: now you do it yourself ... Since most companies have reduced the managerial ranks, there are fewer and fewer bosses, so you become a manger, his boss, and his secretary all rolled into one.

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#12. Ethics is a bit like culture: the less one has, the more one flaunts it ...

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

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#14. 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.

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

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#16. In the biggest companies, seek out the most useless positions: those in consultancy, appraisal, research, and study. The more useless your position, the less possible it will be to assess your 'contribution to the firm's assets.

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#17. Only communist regimes have churned out more jargon than modern business.

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