Ethics is a detergent word, used time and time again to clean consciences without scrubbing.

Remember that work is not a place for self-fulfillment. If it were, you would know it.

Business and its logic of productivity have become the reference point in a society that thinks marketing every time it opens its mouth.

we live in a world of excess: too many kinds of coffee, too many magazines, too many types of bread, too many digital recordings of Beethoven's Ninth, too many choices of rearview mirrors on the latest Renault. Sometimes you say to yourself: It's too much, it's all too much.

Ethics is a bit like culture: the less one has, the more one flaunts it.

Money counts more than you think.

Never, under any circumstances, accept a position of responsibility. You will be forced to work harder with no other benefits than a few extra bucks - 'peanuts,' as they say, if that.