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The worst things are done not by people who believe they are doing wrong, but by those who are convinced that they walk with the hand of God on one shoulder.

Stanley Bing

The worst things are done not by people who believe they are doing wrong, but by those who are convinced that they walk with the hand of God on one shoulder.

In terms of their power over other adults, the sheer force of their monomaniacal self-interest and their utter lack of shame, they may be compared to only one other group of humans on the planet: babi...

Stanley Bing

In terms of their power over other adults, the sheer force of their monomaniacal self-interest and their utter lack of shame, they may be compared to only one other group of humans on the planet: babi...

About Author
Gil Schwartz (May 20, 1951 – May 2, 2020), known by his pen name Stanley Bing, was an American business humorist and novelist. He wrote a column for Fortune magazine for more than twenty years after a decade at Esquire magazine. He was the author of thirteen books, including What Would Machiavelli Do? and The Curriculum, a satirical textbook for a business school that also offers lessons on the web. Schwartz was senior executive vice president of corporate communications and Chief Communications Officer for CBS.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. That is the principal difference between a dog and a man. MARK TWAIN

Stanley Bing

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. That is the principal difference between a dog and a man. MARK TWAIN

Six months later, when the cutbacks were all done, the Chief Executive Officer fired this very same hatchet man with exactly the same words. What a bastard, said the CEO to himself as he started the s...

Stanley Bing

Six months later, when the cutbacks were all done, the Chief Executive Officer fired this very same hatchet man with exactly the same words. What a bastard, said the CEO to himself as he started the s...

When I was a young man I worked for a very good company that was very well run by very nice people who knew what they were doing. There was a lot of affection and we made everybody a lot of money. We...

Stanley Bing

When I was a young man I worked for a very good company that was very well run by very nice people who knew what they were doing. There was a lot of affection and we made everybody a lot of money. We...

He had come a long way to this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so close he could hardly fail to grasp it. The quotation is from The Great Gatsby,

Stanley Bing

He had come a long way to this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so close he could hardly fail to grasp it. The quotation is from The Great Gatsby,

It is believed that Revson is the author of the oft-quoted statement, uttered during one long working weekend to his subordinates, If you don’t come in on Saturday, don’t bother to come in on Sunday.

Stanley Bing

It is believed that Revson is the author of the oft-quoted statement, uttered during one long working weekend to his subordinates, If you don’t come in on Saturday, don’t bother to come in on Sunday.

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...

Stanley Bing

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...

They were rocketing along a country lane where there was no cell phone service, propelled by the grouchy Mogul’s constant, ill-tempered exhortations. Faster! yelled the Mogul, who was used to yelling...

Stanley Bing

They were rocketing along a country lane where there was no cell phone service, propelled by the grouchy Mogul’s constant, ill-tempered exhortations. Faster! yelled the Mogul, who was used to yelling...

Either I get Frank’s job as president, or I’m going to leave the company. JEFFREY KATZENBERG TO DISNEY CHAIRMAN MICHAEL EISNER LESS THEN THIRTY-SIX HOURS AFTER THE DEATH OF DISNEY NUMBER TWO, FRANK WE...

Stanley Bing

Either I get Frank’s job as president, or I’m going to leave the company. JEFFREY KATZENBERG TO DISNEY CHAIRMAN MICHAEL EISNER LESS THEN THIRTY-SIX HOURS AFTER THE DEATH OF DISNEY NUMBER TWO, FRANK WE...

During that time, the young man met and married a beautiful young woman who had completed her law degree from Columbia University but had decided to pursue her MBA afterward because she had no desire...

Stanley Bing

During that time, the young man met and married a beautiful young woman who had completed her law degree from Columbia University but had decided to pursue her MBA afterward because she had no desire...

Businesspeople are like sharks, not just because we're gray and slightly oily, or because our teeth trail the innards of those we have eviscerated, but because we must move forward or die.

Stanley Bing

Businesspeople are like sharks, not just because we're gray and slightly oily, or because our teeth trail the innards of those we have eviscerated, but because we must move forward or die.

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When a general gave unwanted advice at a meeting, Saddam ordered him to stand, and shot him six times. —FIRST-PERSON ACCOUNT, SADDAM HUSSEIN WEB HIT

Stanley Bing

When a general gave unwanted advice at a meeting, Saddam ordered him to stand, and shot him six times. —FIRST-PERSON ACCOUNT, SADDAM HUSSEIN WEB HIT

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

Stanley Bing

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

  Your goal is to reach the point where, no matter what happens in any given day, you just don’t give a shit.

Stanley Bing

  Your goal is to reach the point where, no matter what happens in any given day, you just don’t give a shit.

Today we will tackle the rudiments of getting people to buy the thing you’re selling. This is the heart of all activity of any kind in the human sphere. Along with the opposable thumb, this capacity—t...

Stanley Bing

Today we will tackle the rudiments of getting people to buy the thing you’re selling. This is the heart of all activity of any kind in the human sphere. Along with the opposable thumb, this capacity—t...

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...

Stanley Bing

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...

The executives that ran Lehman Bros. into the ground several years ago had a macho culture that abhorred personal time. One executive was pressured to go to the office while his wife was actually deli...

Stanley Bing

The executives that ran Lehman Bros. into the ground several years ago had a macho culture that abhorred personal time. One executive was pressured to go to the office while his wife was actually deli...

Because business, in many ways, is like politics or beauty pageants. The talented do, at times, rise to the top. But those with guts, gumption, unbounded energy, hot desire, and the ability to push pe...

Stanley Bing

Because business, in many ways, is like politics or beauty pageants. The talented do, at times, rise to the top. But those with guts, gumption, unbounded energy, hot desire, and the ability to push pe...

Are you willing to die for yourself? If you want to be, you have to be able to take the very first step toward attaining that capability. You have to be willing to live for yourself.

Stanley Bing

Are you willing to die for yourself? If you want to be, you have to be able to take the very first step toward attaining that capability. You have to be willing to live for yourself.