"A pat on the back is only a few centimeters from a kick in the butt."

"The more crap you put up with, the more crap you are going to get."

"Do not underestimate your abilities. That is your boss's job."

"Keep your boss's boss off your boss's back. Everything can be filed under miscellaneous."

"Never delay the ending of a meeting or the beginning of a cocktail hour."

"If you are good, you will be assigned all the work. If you are really good, you will get out of it."

"At work, the authority of a person is inversely proportional to the number of pens that person is carrying."

"When confronted by a difficult problem you can solve it by reducing it to the question, 'How would the Lone Ranger handle this ?"

"No matter how much you do, you never do enough."

"Think before you act."

"The last person that quit or was fired will be held responsible for everything that goes wrong."

Exercise at work:
• beat around the bush;
• run around in circles;
• jump to conclusions;
• run away from your problems;
• fly off the handle;
• climb the corporate ladder;
• push a pencil;
• strike any key;
• etc...

"When the going gets tough, everyone leaves."



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