Careers Quotes

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. (“Oh, the Places You’ll Go!”)

In fact, companies are borrowing more techniques from cults every day. For example, cults try to separate you from the rest of society. Companies make you work so many hours that you never see the rest of society. Cults tell you to wear dorky outfits. Companies tell you to wear dorky outfits too, except on […]

Catbert is a typical cat, in the sense that he looks cute but he doesn’t care if you live or die. Recently he became the Human Resources Director at Dilbert’s company where he teases employees before downsizing them. You’ll see more of him as I shamelessly capitalize on the fact that many people like cats. […]

There is no way of proving your point to someone whose income or position depends on believing the contrary.

An author whose name is known everywhere, and whose reputation is commensurate with the boundaries of his country, if it does not transcend them, shall have the income, say, of a rising young physician, known to a few people in a subordinate city. In view of this fact, so humiliating to an author in the […]

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.