“The White Company offers its loyalists an altogether better, whiter world. The White people have edited out any colours that aren't white, off-white, milk chocolate, grey, taupe or black. They can't be doing with Johnnie Boden's cheery Sloane jokes, his spots and stripes, his occasional 'if it's me, it's U' loud colours.” PeopleIfsWorldBlackWhiteCompanyOffersJokesSpotsLoudColourChocolateMilkGreyOccasionalStripesEditedLoyalists Author:Peter York
“All I can tell you with certainty is that I, for one, have no self, and that I am unwilling or unable to perpetrate upon myself the joke of a self. What I have instead is a variety of impersonations I can do, and not only of myself - a troupe of players that I have internalised, a permanent company of actors that I can call upon when a self is required. I am a theater and nothing more than a theater.” I CanSelfActorsCan DoCompanyPlayerIdentityJokesTheaterCertaintyVarietyPermanentUnwillingTroupe Author:Philip Roth
“The technology companies don't understand creative things at all. Silicon Valley's view of the creative process in Hollywood is a bunch of guys in their young thirties sitting on a couch, drinking beer, and thinking up jokes.” ThinkingYoungGuyProcessViewsCompanyTechnologyCreativeJokesSittingHollywoodDrinkingBunchBeerValleysCreative ProcessCouchesSiliconSilicon ValleyDrinking Beer Author:Steve Jobs
“Sexual harassment legislation feels unfair to men because if they sued over an ethnic joke, or over a woman discussing pornography or asking them out, they'd be laughed out of the company.” IfsMenFeelsCompanyJokesAskingLaughedUnfairLegislationPornographyDiscussingHarassment Author:Warren Farrell
“By giving women training to sue a company for a 'hostile environment' if someone tells a dirty joke, we are training women to run to the Government as Substitute Husband (or Father). This gets companies to fear women, but not to respect women. The best preparation we can give women to succeed in the workplace is the preparation to overcome barriers rather than to sue: successful people don't sue, they succeed.” PeopleIfsGivingGovernmentRunningFatherCompanySuccessfulEnvironmentSucceedHusbandTrainingJokesOvercomingPreparationDirtyBarriersSubstitutesSuccessful PeopleWorkplaceHostileRespect WomenDirty JokesHostile Environment Book:The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex Source: The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex
“I joke that I've never been burdened by having an actual hit. There's something to that. My records have sold enough to make the record company money to help me keep my job. But I've never had anything so firmly ingrained in the mind of the public that I'm expected to repeat it.” MindEnoughHelpingJobsCompanyRecordsJokesExpectedRepeatsHelp MeRecord Companies Author:Lyle Lovett
“No matter where they are or who they're with, dogs are incapable of being anything but themselves. Show me a dog that puts on airs or laughs politely at an unfunny joke and I'll show you a human in a dog costume, possibly one owned and licensed by the Walt Disney Company.” HumansMatterShowsCompanyLaughingAirDogJokesIncapableShow MeCostumesWaltDisney CompanyWalt Disney Company Author:Meghan Daum
“I began writing books after speaking for several years and I realize that when you have a written book people think that you're smarter than you really are if I can joke. But it's interesting. People will buy your book and hire you without reading the book just because you have a book and you have a book on a subject that they think is of interest to themselves or e to their company.” PeopleIfsThinkingWritingYearsI CanBookReadingInterestRealizingInterestingCompanyWrittenSubjectsJokesSmarterWriting A Book Author:Brian Tracy
“It is by vivacity and wit that man shines in company; but trite jokes and loud laughter reduce him to a buffoon.” MenCompanyLaughterJokesShiningWitLoudBuffoonsVivacityLoud Laughter Author:Lord Chesterfield
“Remember that the wit, humour, and jokes of most mixed companies are local. They thrive in that particular soil, but will not often bear transplanting.” HumorFunnyRememberCompanyHumourParticularBearsJokesWitLocalsSoilThrive Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters