Max Barry Quotes

I have nothing and no one but you, and you're useless. That's not a personal commentary. It's a statement of fact.

With Lola, everything was solvable. She was my independent variable.

A panic state is not helpful to good decision making.

A woman appeared and began to generate tea and coffee

It was funny how as soon as you knew there was something better, what you had seemed unbearable.

Last month we had to sit through a presentation on eliminating redundancy, and it was a bunch of PowerPoint slides, plus a guy reading out what was on the slides, and then he gave us all hard copies.

Sales is a business of relationships, and you must cultivate customers with tenderness and love, like cabbages in winter, even if the customer is an egomaniacal asshole you want to hit with a shovel.

Stop believing what you want to believe. It’s unbecoming

This isn't an accident; this happens because to people at the top, the scariest thing is how many people there are below. They need to watch us. They need to monitor what we're thinking. It's the only...

To succeed in sales, you need skills—not skills entirely consistent with moral integrity and emotional well-being, but skills nevertheless.

After a while, he sat. She leaned her head on his shoulder. She felt very close to him. I promisenot to turn you into my thought slave, she said, and felt him smile a little. But she had thought about...

After a while, he sat. She leaned her head on his shoulder. She felt very close to him. I promise not to turn you into my thought slave, she said, and felt him smile a little. But she had thought abou...

And, hey. You. Thanks for being the kind of person who likes to pick up a book. That's a genuinely great thing. I met a librarian recently who said she doesn't read because books are her job and when...

Blind tastete ich auf dem Nachttisch herum, und meine Finger schoben sich zwischen Romane, die ich nicht mehr las, weil man einfach nicht zurück konnte, wenn man erst mal mit E-Books angefangen hatte.

Civilizations rose and fell; what caused them to be remembered was

Companies were getting a lot tougher on labor contracts these days; Hack had heard stories. At Adidas, if you quit your job and your replacement wasn't as competent, they sued you for lost profits.

Every story written is marks upon a page The same marks, repeated, only differently arranged

I don't play the lottery. I don't care what my horoscope says. I think most things about the world could be improved if people thought more about what they're doing. When someone gets upset with their...

I guess it's always uncomfortable to discover you're not as individual as you thought. But it really bothered me. From one perspective, I was an independent animal, exercising free will in order to el...

I must be the latest in a long line of freshly dismembered men to fall under the spell of Lola Shanks.