The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
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The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity.
Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.
Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.
There are zillions of people who say that alcoholism is a disease, but not many of them believe it.
Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
The worst thing in this business is to be thought of as a no-talent.
It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.
Only the emerging specialty of psychoanalysis seemed to understand that mental maladies are not fully analogous to physical disease. They resist classification, and might better be known by their symptoms and the individualized sufferings of patients than by assigned names.
The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.