Only communist regimes have churned out more jargon than modern business.

The religion of the corporate world is novelty. What is new is always right.

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.

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

the middle manager is doomed to remain just that. Once an office rat, always an office rat.

Money counts more than you think.

What you do is ultimately pointless. You could be replaced any day of the week with the first moron who walks in the door. So work as little as possible, and spend a little time (not too much, though) 'selling yourself' and 'networking' so that you will have backup and will be untouchable (and untouched) the next time the company is restructured.