My favourite moto is very hard to translate from French. It’s a quote from Chateaubriand. “Il faut etre econome de son mepris tant les necessiteux sont nombreux”. Clumsy translation that misses the elegance of the formulation: “one must use disdain sparingly given how numerous are the needy”.
Also eternal truths passed on to me by my various managers:
“The more you climb in the hierarchy, the more you realise it is the same idiots at every level”
“The optimal number of people in an organisation is 3. As soon as you add one more you lose efficiency. So passed 100,000...”
Also eternal truths passed on to me by my various managers:
“The more you climb in the hierarchy, the more you realise it is the same idiots at every level”
“The optimal number of people in an organisation is 3. As soon as you add one more you lose efficiency. So passed 100,000...”
“Assumptions are the mother of all fuckups”