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Still, a rising tide of bullshit soils all boats.
David Graeber • Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
David Brooks • How the Ivy League Broke America
The Davenport brothers were quiet by nature, but early in their career they must have realized that the secret of their success was to say absolutely nothing.
Teller Jim Steinmeyer • Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear
I never had much respect for Tom Scott’s ability to accomplish any great undertaking. He can give everybody a Pass, and get them to say he is a “big Injun” and good fellow—but he is not the man to lay down a Hundred or Two Hundred Thousand Dollars Cash, to carry a scheme of his own. . . . [Gould is] the reverse of Scott; he is a one man power; cons
... See moreCharles R. Morris • The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
— Oscar Wilde
The Art of Selfishness
Harry Browne • How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World
don’t ignore dinosaur-model industry associations.
Mike Weinberg • New Sales. Simplified.
it is personalities, not principles, that move the age."