If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Life is too short to be a boring company.
Wanted: a man who is larger than his calling, who considers it a low estimate of his occupation to value it merely as a means of getting a living.
If the head man in a company is not working 12 hours a day, doing things, taking risks, but also standing with his people in the trenches at the most difficult of times, then the company loses something.
One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
I know not how it is: there are some businesses for which dullness seems to be a qualification.
Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life.
The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
If a man can't manage his own life, he can't manage a business.