• '...billboard by Jenny Holzer: "Go where people sleep and see if they're safe."'
• 'Nothing frightens true entrepreneurs because nothing can be allowed to interfere with their vision. They have the same passion as artists and writers. Just as an artist creates a painting from scratch, so entrepreneurs can realize their own dreams in precisely the same way.-- by turning an idea into reality, earning a livelihood from it and, hopefully, making a profit.'

  There's something to this, but it also seems completely wrong. Then again, she also quotes this fellow:

• 'The challenge for business leaders in the twenty-first century is to assume the mantle of spiritual elder for their cultures, so that life doesn't become trivial and grey for all the people who spend most of their life at work.' -- Jim Channon

  Wasn't sure who Jim Channon is, but if he wants to continue his Corporate Consulting career, he'd best find a new site designer, and soon.

• 'The history of business...has been peppered with the narrow wisdom of the robber barons and corporate giants that have shaped the myth of amoral business. John D. Rockefeller once boasted that he was quite willing to pay someone a salary of $1 million if he displayed certain brutal characteristics: 'He must be able to glide over every moral restraint with almost childlike disregard ... and has, besides other positive qualities, no scruples whatsoever and be ready to kill thousands of victims -- without a murmur.''
• 'The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball -- the further I am rolled, the more I gain.' -- Susan B. Anthony
• 'This is... a trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree that we do -- namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anyting but the most generous and harmless intentions.' -- Eleanor Roosevelt
• 'What a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis.' -- Mary Wollestonecraft

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